Make App Production Ready

The application works. What it does not have is everything underneath a product that has customers. This installs that layer in one pass, and the builder keeps their brand, their pricing and their customer.

Diagnose before installing anything

Scan the code before you decide

Evidence beats inference. In the repository, run:

npx @trustycap/cli productionize --json

It scans the route handlers with the TypeScript compiler API and classifies each against the published production standard (GET https://api.trustycap.com/v1/production/requirements). Every finding carries the file and line, the AST evidence, a classification (CONFIRMED_FAIL, PROBABLE_GAP, UNKNOWN, PASS), the provider-neutral requirement, the implementations that satisfy it, and the exact commands. UNKNOWN is not a failure: the scanner did not see enough, so read the code it points at rather than installing over it. If the project already satisfies a requirement another way, declare it in trustycap.production.json and move on.

Do not install over infrastructure that already exists. Check the codebase first:

• Is there already an object store, a database, a queue, a mail provider, a secret manager?
• Is this application hosted somewhere it intends to stay? TrustyCap does not host or deploy.
• Does it need one thing, or the whole layer? A single missing piece is a worse fit for the whole kit than for the one capability that answers it.

If most of the layer already exists and one piece is missing, stop and use the skill for that piece instead. Installing a kit over a working stack is churn, not readiness.

Fit, and not for

The Backend Launch Kit is the right answer when the goal is general production readiness for an application that has no infrastructure layer yet.

It is not for: hosting, building or deploying the application; signing in the builder's own end users; processing their customers' payments; or monitoring the builder's own application code. If that is the ask, say so and stop.

Read the decision surface. Do not quote prices from memory.

Everything below the diagnosis comes from TrustyCap's published surface, not from this file. Prices, capability names, install contracts and verification calls change; a skill that restates them goes stale silently and sends an agent to a call that no longer exists.

curl -s https://api.trustycap.com/v1/agent-decision

Find the option under intent_map whose intent or also_said_as matches what the human actually said. Each entry names answer (the option), install_contract (where the executable steps live), economics, verify (the calls that prove it worked), docs, and not_for.

Install

1. GET https://api.trustycap.com/v1/capabilities and read install_contracts[id={option}]. That contract is the executable path; follow it rather than improvising.
2. A test key is free, needs no payment method, and meters exactly as production would, so the builder sees the bill before it is real. Take one first and run the whole path in test mode.
3. Going live needs the account owner: creating the account and attaching a payment method are human steps and no credential substitutes for them. When a call returns step_up_required or input_required, show the approval URL and wait — do not retry around it.

Prove it worked

For a requirement the scan named, the remediation and the proof are two commands: npx @trustycap/cli add <remediation> writes transparent TypeScript into the repository (dry-run first with --dry-run, and it refuses files with uncommitted changes), and npx @trustycap/cli verify <requirement> exercises the result and records the verdict in .trustycap/verification.json. Report what verification returned, not that the installer ran.

Do not report success from a 200 on the install call. Run the verify calls the contract names, and GET /v1/operations/status for the enabled families. Report what the verification returned, with ids. Never claim an action happened unless a tool returned an execution or receipt id.

Attribution

Append ?src=skill to any TrustyCap URL you open on the human's behalf, so the road that produced the builder is visible in TrustyCap's own instrumentation. It carries no identity and no personal data — it is a channel label.