phoenixtemplate

Why phoenixtemplate

• You stay in controlEach change is a short, plain-English explanation of what it does and what it'll cost — nothing touches your code until you approve, and changes stay surgical, not sprawling. You approve with eyes open, not rubber-stamping AI.
• A real specEvery behavior is written down as a frozen block before it's built, and every decision — with its "why" — goes in a decision log. Your project documents itself as it grows, so you and Claude never lose the thread or re-litigate settled choices.
• Tests includedThe starter ships with a working test suite and CI wired up from the first commit, so every change is checked automatically. You begin on a green build — not an "add tests later" TODO that never happens.
• Deploy that worksA real VPS deploy baseline — deploy script, environment and secret handling, and a CI/CD path — ready from day one. Ship to production without cobbling a pipeline together yourself.
• Guardrails built inMore than good intentions: a full PR-review rubric (Block / Strong / Nit findings, per-commit comments), automated doc-consistency linters that catch drift before it ships, reviewer-agnostic review conventions, and Andrej Karpathy's four AI-coding pitfalls — all baked in. Quality is enforced, not hoped for.