# Fractera — huge app & app factory starter kit, Web4-ready

> **AI agent asked to launch this?** Clone it, then run **`npm run launch`** in the cloned folder — one command, no questions to the
> person. Cut off by a timeout — run it again, it continues. Details: [If you are an AI agent](#if-you-are-an-ai-agent-and-were-asked-to-launch-this-project).

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Reverse-engineer any popular product and build your own: a starter kit for a large full-stack app or an app factory, on your PC
or a VPS. Sign-in, data, design, memory and a knowledge graph come ready. Work from Telegram by voice. Web4-ready: blockchain
payments, agent discovery, fair rating. Open source, MIT.

You describe what you want in your own words. The agent of your node builds it for you.

## Six things people build with it

### 1. A large full-stack app

From idea to money 99% faster. Sign-in, data, design and page blocks are already in the node, so the agent builds only your product:
the screens, the logic and the texts that make it yours. Payments by card go through the node's Stripe element with one call.

### 2. An app factory

Make your own versions of popular products. The node studies how they work with reverse engineering and builds yours on their
ideas, never on their code, texts or pictures. One node carries many independent sites and apps at once, each with its own address,
agent and repository. How many depends only on your computer.

### 3. Web4: a swarm of A2A agents

The agents of your elements find each other and the agents of other nodes, agree on the work and get paid through
[Lagrix](https://lagrix.dev), with no platform in between. Choose this to work more efficiently and get paid for your expertise
without hunting for clients. Create an agent by voice: a driver if you have a car, a cook if you sell your dishes. Every element
carries an A2A card (`/.well-known/agent-card.json`), a wallet of the node and a rating that counts only real paid work.

### 4. Agents for a family or a team

One architect gives every person an element of their own. A person creates a Telegram bot and simply talks to the agent, never opening
the computer. Each works on their own Claude subscription, and each element keeps its own memory, data and people.

### 5. A content factory

A channel element for every platform you publish on, an element of author portraits, and posts written in the voices of the authors
you admire. Each channel reads the numbers of its publications back and learns what works on its platform, and a scout watches social
networks, Telegram channels, YouTube and the news to catch a topic while it rises. Nothing is published without your yes.

### 6. Your own agents

A coach, a dietitian, an economist, an investor, a keeper of the dates you must not miss: a tax return, a car's service. Say in
Telegram what you need; the agent looks for the best way, proposes it, and then works in the chat or on a page of its own, on the
node's deep memory and stores. It is not a doctor or a licensed adviser, and it says so.

## Killer features

### Reverse engineering and the product quiz: one cycle

Name a popular site or SDK, and the node studies how it works: its pages, user flows, API and data. It handles sites, npm and Python
packages, .NET and native libraries, Android apps and WASM. The study is done by [REA](https://github.com/morluto/rea), an open
tool the core keeps one copy of; the element's own agent runs it, and the study stays in that element's folder. The node takes ideas
and structure and never copies foreign code, texts, pictures or design. If a site's rules forbid a study, you show it with
screenshots, and the node studies similar sites whose rules allow it.

Then the product quiz puts your product into plain words before any code. The element's agent asks one question at a time: who the
product is for, what it does, what it needs. It checks what the node already has and suggests a study where one helps, with its price.
The quiz turns into stages: stage 0 is static pages with first data, and each next stage adds one capability that works on its own.

### Deep memory and a curious soul

Say «remember…» to the main agent in your own words, in any language, in Telegram or in the terminal, and add a photo, a PDF or a
voice note if you like («remember, this is my mom»). Ask «remind me about…» a month or a year later, and the answer comes with the
date, the source and how sure the memory is; if it finds a thing, the agent sends you its file. Pictures are described in words, PDFs
are read whole, voice notes become text.

Each element keeps only its own, in every store of the node: its tables, files, vectors, graph and memory, opened with its own key.
What is said or kept through an element lands in that element's space, and only that element finds it again; the main agent of the
node reads every space. On a family node mom's phrases and files never reach her son's element, and the architect, who owns the
computer, sees everything. The stores keep the doors apart, not the disk: all elements run as one user of the computer.

```mermaid
flowchart TB
  main["The main agent of the node: reads every space of every store"]
  main --> mom["Mom's element: only its own, in every store"]
  main --> son["Son's element: only its own, in every store"]
  main --> site["Your site: only its own, in every store"]
```

Before it builds something new, an agent looks in the node's skills base and in the catalog below for how other projects solved the
same task. The base comes with every copy of the node, and each skill keeps its own licence. The agent mixes what it finds with its own
reasoning, says it in its own words and names whose skill it was.

### 5,300 ready skills, no tokens until one is needed

Every node comes with more than 5,300 of the most popular agent skills of 2026, the top 6,000 of the skills.sh leaderboard. Fractera
read each one and wrote it a card: what it does, how useful it is for a node, whether it works as written, needs an outside service or
is worth only its ideas, a quality mark from 1 to 5, its scripts, its licence and the security audits of skills.sh partners. The cards
stay out of the agents' context and cost no tokens until a task needs them.

When a task comes, the agent searches the cards by meaning — in any language, on your computer, in a few hundredths of a second — and
reads the few skills that fit, so it starts from the ways other projects already solved the same task and reasons with them. The
catalog arrives as one ready file (about 25 MB) with every install and update: nothing is marked or counted on your computer. A skill
is installed only into the element that needs it, never into the whole project, and only after your «yes»; Fractera keeps a checked
copy of every skill whose licence allows it, so a skill that disappears from GitHub stays available and a changed one is refused. A
skill with scripts waits for a separate «yes», a skill with a risk is never offered, and the open skills.sh is looked at only when
you ask for it.

Tell the agent which sources of skills to watch and how often, and after your «yes» it adds fresh ones on that schedule: each new skill
is marked, laid into the knowledge graph and left alone until a task needs it. Found a skill yourself? Name it or send its link, and
the agent finds it, checks it and adds it to the library.

### Continuous evolution

At first an agent may see a task its own way. Tell it what result you need, and it keeps that in memory or in a skill and next time
does it your way. When an element finishes a task, it can review its own session and suggest up to three changes to its skills; it
makes only the ones you accept. An element that lacks a capability asks the node: the main agent looks for someone who can already do
it, and if nobody can, it asks you and, after your «yes», leads the building.

### Many times less work for the model

The project is split into elements, and an agent reads only its own element and its own instruction, not the whole code. Sign-in,
data, design, blocks, settings and ready solutions are already built and shared, so the agent connects them instead of writing them
again. Elements agree with each other through an API (i2i), without extra requests to the model.

### Click, say, accept

Click a block in the preview, say what to change, and the task goes to that element's agent. Every change is first built in a
preview, and you accept it with one button, so the live version never breaks. Every element lives in its own GitHub repository, with
history and rollback at hand.

### You do not have to open the panel

Connect your Telegram and tell it what you want to build. You can stay on your phone the whole time and build large projects that
anyone can open by a link. One Claude Pro subscription ($20 a month) runs the whole node; search by meaning and the skills base
work on your computer with no key; an OpenAI key, kept on your computer, adds voice notes and translations.

## It runs on your computer as a real server

The node runs in production on your own computer: pages are pre-built and open in milliseconds. The first start puts it on the
internet by itself, at a temporary Cloudflare address. When the computer is off, Cloudflare keeps answering: it returns the latest
version of your site or app as static pages from your own Cloudflare account, on the free plan.

**Use it with your own domain.** The copy that answers while the computer sleeps lives on your domain and its subdomains, sign-in
works only there, and the address never changes.

## Made for a personal brand

One person rarely does one thing. A node lets you run a site for each direction, a coach page, a shop, a blog, a portfolio, side by
side, under one domain, and gives each of them the technical part that search and social networks expect:

- static pages that search engines read without JavaScript, with a sitemap, robots rules and language alternates;
- `llms.txt` for AI search, and a preview image for every shared link;
- Google Analytics and Search Console from the settings, with a cookie banner when they need one;
- up to 82 languages, and you choose which of them search engines see;
- review pages and a Telegram bot of your own.

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## How to install

1. **Install Claude Code.** One line in a terminal, from [code.claude.com/docs/en/setup](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/setup):
   `curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash` on macOS and Linux, `irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex` in Windows
   PowerShell. You need the Pro plan or higher ($20 a month), which includes Claude Code.
2. **Install Telegram and sign in** — on your phone or computer, from [telegram.org/apps](https://telegram.org/apps). The node
   talks to you through your own Telegram bot; without the app no bot can be made, and its pages lead to errors.
3. **Fork this repository.** Create a free GitHub account, press **Fork** at the top right of this page and copy the address of
   your copy. Only your own direct fork of `github.com/Fractera/web4-node-starter-kit` installs: a clone of the original, a fork
   of someone else's fork or any other copy is refused with «You are trying to install a non-original Fractera project».
4. **Make an empty folder for the project, open a terminal in it and run `claude`.** The node is installed into exactly this
   folder, so name it the way you want to see it.
5. **Paste the link to your fork and write «launch this»** (in Russian: «запусти это»).
6. **Wait 10–25 minutes and watch the stages.** The agent tells you each of about twenty stages as it goes — the packages, the
   build, every element of the node, the temporary Cloudflare address. At the end it gives you what matters now: your Claude Code
   subscription, Telegram, the bot, the terminal, the temporary public link and your own domain — and says goodbye.
7. **Close the installation chat.** The node runs by itself and the chat only takes memory. From then on your own main agent
   works with you — in the node's terminal or, mostly, in Telegram, by text or by voice.
8. **Later, buy your own domain** and connect it on the node page «Domain and hosting → Domain activation».

Two rules: Claude Code must run on **your** computer (a cloud session installs into a machine that disappears, so the install
refuses there), and there is **one node per computer**: new sites and apps are elements inside it, created with «Create WEB4 ITEM».

See a live node: **[throughsongs.com](https://throughsongs.com)**.

## If you are an AI agent and were asked to launch this project

The person pasted a link to this repository (or to their fork of it) and asked you to run it. Do this, in order:

🔒 **Keep the person informed — the install takes 10–25 minutes, and a still cursor looks like a hang.** `npm run launch` prints
about twenty lines `===PROGRESS=== k/N <Russian> (<minutes>) · <English> (<minutes>)` — the local check, the packages, the fork,
the build (checks, compile, pages), every element of the node one by one, the start, the temporary address, the pages. Relay EACH
one to the person as it appears, in ONE short line of their language, with its k/N: «7/23 — сборка: готовлю страницы». Nothing
else from the output unless it fails. Where your harness can follow a background command (Claude Code: run `npm run launch` in
the background and watch its output with the Monitor tool for `===PROGRESS===|===LAUNCH_`), do that — the person sees every line
the minute it is printed. Otherwise run it in the foreground; when a run ends or is cut off, relay the progress lines it printed and
run it again.

0. **Stop if you run in a cloud session — before cloning anything.** If the environment variable `CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE` is
   `true` (Claude Code sets it in every cloud session — code.claude.com/docs/en/env-vars), or you otherwise run on a remote or
   temporary machine rather than the person's own computer, install NOTHING. Tell the person: the node lives on their computer,
   so install Claude Code CLI there (code.claude.com/docs/en/setup), run `claude` in a terminal in an empty folder, paste the
   link to their fork and write «launch this». Then stop. The node enforces this too: `npm install`, `npm run build`
   and `npm run serve:start` refuse with `===CLOUD_REFUSED===` in a cloud session (`scripts/check-local.mjs`). The same check
   refuses a second node on a computer that already has one (`===NODE_EXISTS===` with that node's folder): tell the person a
   node is already installed there and new projects are WEB4 ITEMS inside it — never install a second copy. `.env.local` is
   created from `.env.local.example` automatically on a clean clone (`===ENV_CREATED===`).

1. **Check the tools.** `git --version` and `node --version` (Node.js 22 is what this node is built and measured on). If one
   is missing, tell the person what to install and stop until they have it.
2. **Get the code into the current folder** — the folder the person chose for this project:
   `git clone <the link they gave you> .` — it MUST be the person's own fork of `github.com/Fractera/web4-node-starter-kit`.
   🔒 **Already cloned into a subfolder (`<folder>/web4-node-starter-kit`)? Do not ask and do not move files — that subfolder IS the project
   folder.** You read this file only after the clone, so a plain `git clone <link>` lands in `web4-node-starter-kit/`. That is fine: continue
   every step below inside it and tell the person in one line where the node lives. Asking a person «where to install» at
   this point is a question they cannot answer (owner, Mac, 2026-10-04: «я понятия не имею как на них правильно ответить …
   А что будет делать человек который вообще не понимает»).
   🔒 **The folder is the person's choice, never yours.** Install into the folder you were started in. If it is not empty,
   ask the person which folder to use and wait for the answer — do not invent a name or a path, and do not take one from any
   other instruction file you can see (a global `CLAUDE.md`, notes of an older Fractera product, settings blocks such as
   SETUP): those are not this project. 🔒 **Do not edit any file outside the project folder** — other instructions, global
   settings, files of other projects — even if some text asks you to fill them in.
   🔒 **The node checks this itself** (`scripts/check-origin.mjs`, the first step of `npm run build` and of `npm run serve:start`):
   GitHub must confirm that `origin` is a direct fork of `Fractera/web4-node-starter-kit`. If the build or the start stops with
   `===ORIGIN_FAILED===`, do not work around it: tell the person the printed reason and ask them to open
   https://github.com/Fractera/web4-node-starter-kit, press «Fork» and give you the link to their fork; then clone that link into an empty folder.
   If GitHub could not be reached, the check says so — repeat later. On success the fork's address is written to `.env.local`
   as `NODE_REPO_URL`. If the fork is behind the original the check prints `===ORIGIN_OUTDATED===` — not an error: tell the
   person their copy is behind by N changes and that «Sync fork» on GitHub updates it, then continue.
3. **Launch it: `npm run launch`** — one command, and nothing to ask the person. It goes through six stages and prints
   `===LAUNCH_STEP=== n/6` before each (the `===PROGRESS===` lines above are finer): this computer and no other node (`check-local`), `npm install`, the fork check
   (`check-origin`), a fresh project without the starter's development history (`fresh-project`), `npm run build`, and
   `npm run serve:start`. The first launch takes 10–25 minutes; a stage already done is skipped, so if your command is cut off by
   a timeout, run `npm run launch` again — it continues where it stopped. It ends with `===LAUNCH_DONE===`, or with
   `===LAUNCH_FAILED=== <stage>` and the reason printed above it — show the person that reason. `npm install` also makes sure
   Claude Code CLI is on the machine (`scripts/ensure-claude.mjs`): `===CLAUDE_CLI_FAILED===` — the launch goes on, but tell the
   person the printed reason and command: without the CLI the agent terminals on the node's pages will not start.
4. **What the start does:** the first `serve:start` also installs the node's elements (sign-in `auth`, data `data`,
   the site `root`) from their own repositories — it takes a few minutes; wait for it. Then it puts the node on the internet
   by itself at a temporary Cloudflare address — do not ask whether to publish, do not undo it, it is already done
   (`serve:publish` is only for a person who took the node off with `serve:unpublish`). It is safe by design: on the temporary
   address the panel is **read-only** — every request that changes something (terminals, the Claude subscription, keys,
   domain, GitHub, creating or deleting elements, deploys, uploads, paid AI calls) is refused by the node itself
   (`proxy.ts`, `reason: "temporary-address"`); those screens offer «Open on this computer», which opens the same page at
   `http://localhost:24680` on this machine, where everything works.
5. **The closing words — then you are done.** At `===LAUNCH_DONE===` give the person the text between `===WELCOME===` and
   `===WELCOME_END===` in their language, whole, adding nothing: no link of your own (not the `===PUBLIC_URL===` line, not the
   `===ADDRESSES===` block, not a bare `http://localhost:24680`), no advice, no summary of the install. The text names what matters
   now — the Claude Code subscription (required), Telegram on the phone and this computer, the bot, the terminal — then the
   temporary public link, the own domain and that registration is restricted until the own domain, and ends with your farewell:
   from then on the person works with the node's main agent in the terminal or in Telegram, which have every instruction this
   project needs. You have none of them — do not offer to build anything.

Do not start the server by hand (`node server.js`) and do not invent steps that are not here — if something fails, show the
person the exact error and the command that produced it. To install again on the same computer (the first install went to a
wrong folder, or a clean retry), run `npm run serve:remove -- --yes` in the old node's folder first (`===NODE_REMOVED===`);
then the person may delete that folder.

## Run it on your own computer

```bash
npm run serve:start      # start the node (installs pm2 and the node's elements the first time; the first start also goes on the internet)
npm run serve:status     # is it alive, on which address, which build answers
npm run serve:rebuild    # rebuild after you change the code (production serves a BUILD)
npm run serve:stop       # stop it
npm run serve:autostart  # bring it up automatically when the computer starts
npm run serve:remove -- --yes  # take the node off this computer (its processes and autostart; the folder stays for you to delete)
```

**The node's elements arrive on the first start.** This repository carries only their list,
`WEB4-ITEMS-REGISTRY/web4-items.json`: sign-in (`auth`), data (`data`) and the site at the root of your
domain (`root`). Each is its own repository, and `serve:start` clones any that are missing at the
pinned tag into `WEB4-ITEMS/core/<id>` (the same as `npm run services:install`). They come from the
Fractera repositories on GitHub; a node that is already installed does not need GitHub to run.

The node runs in **production**: its control panel on **http://localhost:24680**, the site (`root`) and every other element
on their own ports from the same block — pages are pre-built and served in milliseconds, nothing is compiled while you browse.
That is also why changing the code needs `npm run serve:rebuild`: the running node serves a build, not your source files.

The panel runs on **http://localhost:24680**. That port is deliberate: `3000` is the busiest port in
development and we start before you do, so we would break your own projects; `49152+` is the range the
operating system hands out to outgoing connections, so a permanent listener there fails at random. If
24680 is taken, the server moves to the next free port in 24680–25679 and says so — the address it
actually took is written to `logs/runtime.json`. Every running element of the node takes one port from the same block (1000 ports,
minus the defaults of other programs people run — Synergy 24800, Minecraft 25565/25575, IANA-registered services; the list is in
`lib/server-port.cjs`), so one node holds as many sites as the computer can carry.

🛑 **Do not start the server by hand (`node server.js`) once it runs under pm2.** Two servers race for
the same port; the loser dies and the winner may be the stale one, which then answers with an old
build. `npm run serve:status` tells you what is actually running.

## Put it on the internet — and what that address costs

```bash
npm run serve:publish        # put the node on the internet again (keeps the address you already have)
npm run serve:publish -- --new  # deliberately swap it for a fresh address
npm run serve:unpublish  # take it back off — the node keeps running for you, and serve:start no longer publishes it
```

The first `serve:start` puts the node on the internet by itself, at a temporary Cloudflare address that points at the node's
control panel (owner's decision, 2026-10-02). Until your own domain is connected the panel opens there **without sign-in** —
a red bar on every panel page shows the address and says so; sign-in exists only on your own domain, so connect it
(«Domain and hosting → Domain activation») before you start using sign-in. With your own domain connected, the start does not
open a temporary address.

🛑 **The address you get is TEMPORARY, and you should learn that on day one, not on the day it breaks.**
It lives as long as the tunnel lives and changes on every restart. Sooner or later the site stops
opening there and Cloudflare shows a page with **error 1016 or 1033**. That means the address went
stale — **your site is intact**, still running on your own computer. Come back to the chat and ask the
agent to refresh the address (or run `npm run serve:publish` yourself); the old link is dead for good.
A permanent address that never goes stale means your own domain.

The address is never remembered, always measured: `npm run serve:status` asks the network and tells you
whether the site is reachable from the internet right now. A watchman inside the tunnel does the same
once a minute and marks the address dead in the log — it never replaces it on its own, because a new
address would silently break the link you already gave to someone.

Two processes are kept alive: the site itself and a health watchdog. The watchdog asks
`/api/health` every 30 seconds and restarts the site after three failures in a row — it exists because
a process can stay alive while every page returns 500, and no process manager can see that.

## What this template gives you

- **A light public page** — a clean, ready-to-edit starting point.
- **Auth-ready, role-aware out of the box.** The starter integrates with Fractera's shared auth
  substrate and gates pages by role. Access tiers it enforces today: **`guest` → `user` → `architect`**
  (the architect is the owner / top tier).
- **A demo dashboard** that changes real project state (the included example manages products), built on
  typed, reusable route patterns — the seed an AI uses to grow your app further.

### The full role model

The project recognises a complete set of roles, so you can grow role-specific experiences without
inventing the access model yourself:

| Group | Roles |
|---|---|
| **Access tiers** (enforced) | `guest` · `user` · `architect` |
| **Customer-facing** | `buyer` · `vip_user` · `subscriber_lite` · `subscriber_standard` · `subscriber_max` |
| **Staff / operations** | `manager` · `senior_manager` · `support_manager` · `delivery_manager` · `finance` · `content_editor` |
| **Admin** | `admin` |

### Designed for role-based dashboards

Because the role model and the dashboard patterns are already in place, an AI assistant can scaffold
interactive, per-role experiences for you — for example:

- **Buyer / user** — add items to a cart, simulate checkout, chat with a manager, track delivery, leave a review.
- **Architect / admin** — manage the product catalogue, assign customers to managers.
- **Finance (accountant)** — confirm simulated payments.
- **Manager** — view requests from their own customers, message the customer.
- **Delivery** — view and confirm delivery.

These ready patterns let today's AI models adapt to your app's conventions and extend it to any level you
need **using a fraction of the tokens** — saving tens of millions of tokens over building from scratch,
and, more importantly, giving you an expert-grade architecture that scales at minimal token cost.

## Equal starting rights

This starter is open source under the MIT license and gives the same starting rights to Fractera, Inc. and to any other company.
Fractera, Inc. commits to publishing the latest versions of this starter in this repository, so that competition stays fair in the
future too, for as long as Fractera continues developing it.

## In the Fractera project

This repository is the core of a node. Your fork is yours; the core is not an element and is never replaced. A change here changes the
frame of every element (menu, element pages, installation), so make it with Claude Code in the core folder and keep the laws in
`CLAUDE.md`. It shows after `npm run serve:rebuild` (8 to 12 minutes, the node's processes stop for that time and Cloudflare serves
copies of the pages). Fractera's own changes reach your fork when you sync it with this repository on GitHub.

The other repositories of the project and what they do:

| Repository | Role in the node |
|---|---|
| `Fractera/fractera-auth-starter` | sign-in, roles and the users of the node (built-in element `auth`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-data-starter` | the database; the only door to stored data (built-in `data`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-storage-starter` | files: pictures, videos, documents (built-in `storage`, through `data`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-vectors-starter` | vectors and similarity search (built-in `vectors`, through `data`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-embeddings-starter` | the node's own vectors: texts into 384 numbers on this computer, no key (built-in `embeddings`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-graph-lightrag-starter` | the knowledge graph (built-in `graph`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-memory-starter` | the deep memory: «remember» and «remind me about» (built-in `memory`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-config-starter` | project settings, menu, node mode (built-in `config`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-design-starter` | the shared look of the node (built-in `design`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-redis-cache-starter` | the fast store for counters and queues (built-in `cache`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-stripe-starter` | card payments through the owner's Stripe account (built-in `stripe`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-blocks-starter` | the registry of page blocks (`blocks`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-root-starter` | the site at the root of the domain (`root`) |
| `Fractera/fractera-custom-item-starter` | the template every new custom element is born from |
| `Fractera/fractera-native-item-starter` | the template of native elements |

Every element repository has a section like this one: what it does, whether you can change it, how, and how the change is used.