A Dev Team for the Solo Builder
Your Starting Line
New to AI-driven development? Start here. Solo SDLC gives you a complete, structured pipeline — free and ready to go. No setup complexity. No team required. Just install, describe what you want to build, and let the agents handle the rest. It's the simplest way to ship real software with AI.
- ⚙️7-phase pipeline with gate checks at every stage
- 🤖Purpose-built for Claude Code & Claude Chat
- 🧑💻You decide. Agents execute. Nothing ships without your approval.
- 🚀Merge a PR and walk away — zero-touch deployment
- 📊Live status tracking — every phase syncs to features.json
Structured Engineering.
Systematic AI Shipping.
A structured, AI-native development pipeline for solo product builders. Human judgment at every gate. Agentic automation everywhere else.
How It Works
Four steps from idea to production.
Install the Toolkit
Download the tarball. Run the installer. Skills, hooks, and CLAUDE.md are set up in your repo.
Describe What You Want
Open a GitHub Issue or tell Claude what to build. Phase 0 shapes it into a scoped problem brief.
Let the Pipeline Run
Agents handle architecture, planning, coding, testing, and deployment. You review at each gate.
Ship & Learn
Code merges, deploys automatically, and the retro captures what to improve next time.
Seven Phases, One Pipeline
Each phase has a clear purpose, defined outputs, and a gate check before moving forward.
Discovery
Challenge assumptions, define success criteria, set scope boundaries.
Architecture
Read the codebase, produce a Technical Design Document that fits what exists.
Planning
Decompose the design into small, verifiable code prompts with failure recovery.
Build
Execute prompts, write code, run checks, commit — all automated.
Verification
Type checks, lint, tests, security review. Bugs die before they ship.
Ship
Merge the PR and walk away. Deployment is zero-touch.
Retrospective
Identify patterns, improve the process. Your pipeline gets smarter every cycle.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to be a senior developer to use this?
No. Solo SDLC is designed for any developer who ships features alone — whether you're a solo founder, indie hacker, or side-project builder. The pipeline guides you through professional-grade practices without needing a team.
What AI models does it work with?
Solo SDLC is built for Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI agent) and Claude Chat. The skills and prompts are optimized for Claude's capabilities. Other models are not officially supported.
How is this different from just using Claude Code directly?
Claude Code is powerful, but it doesn't enforce structure. Solo SDLC adds a 7-phase pipeline with gate checks, artifact tracking, compliance rules, and retrospectives — so you get repeatable, production-quality results instead of ad-hoc prompting.
Does it work with any tech stack?
The pipeline is stack-agnostic — the phases and skills work with any codebase. The default scaffold uses Next.js, TypeScript, and Vercel, but you can adapt it to your stack.
Is it free?
Yes. Solo SDLC is free to download and use. You'll need your own Claude API access (via Claude Code) for the AI-powered phases.
How do I get updates?
Run the built-in upgrader: sdlc.sh upgrade. It pulls the latest version, migrates your artifacts into feature folders, and updates your skills.