Turn Code Agents into a Full-Stack Factory
It's all about composability.
Code agents create a new kind of application. Not every app needs to serve millions of users or run for years. Some are built for a specific moment—a quick tool to solve today's problem, a prototype to test an idea, something you use once and move on. Think Snapchat, but for software.
This changes what architecture makes sense.
Two skills turn any code agent into a full-stack app factory:
- Database provisioning — spin up a lightweight database on demand
- Web deployment — package the app and deploy it to a live URL
Skill 1: Provision a Lightweight Database
Most of these agent-built apps don't need a full Postgres cluster. They don't need connection pooling, read replicas, or horizontal scaling. They need to store some data for a particular use case.
Giving every throwaway app a production-grade relational database is wasteful. It's like renting a warehouse to store a shoebox.
That's why we chose Turso. It's SQLite—the database that's been bulletproof for decades, running on billions of devices. Lightweight. No server to manage. One API call creates a database, another gives you a connection URL. Done.
This fits perfectly with agent-generated apps. Small, personal, maybe ephemeral. The database matches the application.
Skill 2: Deploy to the Internet
Same logic for deployment. These apps don't need Kubernetes. They don't need load balancers or auto-scaling groups. They need a URL.
Netlify deploys from a directory. Put your files here, run this command, get a live site. Serverless functions go in a folder. The conventions are simple enough that we encoded them into a skill.
Now when the agent finishes writing code, it doesn't stop. It packages the app, deploys it, and hands back a URL. The user never touches a deployment config.
The Power of Composability
This is the same idea from our first post: skills compose. Add a database skill, the agent can persist data. Add a hosting skill, it can serve websites. Add a deployment skill, it can ship to production. Stack them together, and the agent builds full applications.
We didn't build a "full-stack app platform." We gave the code agent several composable skills. The agent figures out how to combine them.
That's the leverage. Small skills, composed into complex outcomes.