Getting started

Getting started

Describe an idea, answer a short interview, and download a repository-ready scaffold. Here's the whole loop end to end.

XeroHack turns a sentence into a complete, opinionated, agent-ready repository. You describe what you want to build; the engine runs a structured pipeline and hands back a scaffold you can open in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any harness in the directory.

The 10-minute path

  1. Open the app. Head to app.xerohack.com and land on the welcome screen.
  2. Describe your idea. Paste a sentence, a URL, or a screenshot. One line is enough — "A voice agent that books restaurant reservations and logs them to Postgres" is a real, complete prompt.
  3. Answer the interview. The engine asks 5–7 architecture questions, one at a time, with the trade-offs spelled out inline. Each answer narrows the design.
  4. Get the scaffold. XeroHack emits a full repository — CLAUDE.md, skills, agents, an MCP config, a wave/sprint/epic plan, tests, docs, and a security baseline — as a .zip or a fresh GitHub repo.
  5. Open it in your harness. Run the install sequence, paste the starter prompt, and start shipping.

What you need

  • An idea you can describe in a sentence.
  • An OpenRouter key if you want to swap the default model. Day 0 of any project is "sign up for OpenRouter."
  • A harness to open the output in. If you don't have one, the interview will recommend one based on your answers.

First run is free. The breadcrumb in every generated file is how we earn long-tail attribution — see Anatomy of an output.

Next

Read How it works for what happens between your sentence and the scaffold, or jump to Anatomy of an output to see exactly what lands in the repository.