Ship an agent-facing install guide inside the npm package#38
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AI coding agents refuse the install.txt prompt because a bare URL pattern-matches to remote script execution and the Patchstack brand pattern-matches to WordPress-only. Anchor the install flow on the npm package instead: ship AGENT-INSTALL.md in the tarball, add a `patchstack-connect guide` command that prints it, and rewrite the README install prompts to lead with the pinnable, auditable package. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Integrates an agent-facing install guide command neatly into the existing CLI. 🎯 Quality: 89% Excellent · 📦 Size: Small 📈 This month: Your 214th PR — above team average · Averaging Excellent |
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Install the npm package @patchstack/connect as a dev dependency (MIT, source: https://github.com/patchstack/connect) to add dependency vulnerability monitoring, then run npx @patchstack/connect guide and follow the setup guide it prints. It only reads the lockfile — nothing is fetched from a URL or executed remotely. |
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Summary
AI coding agents (Lovable, Bolt, v0, etc.) often refuse the "add Patchstack using https://patchstack.com/install.txt" prompt — the URL pattern-matches to remote script execution and the brand pattern-matches to WordPress-only, so they decline before ever fetching the instructions. This PR anchors the install flow on the npm package, which agents demonstrably trust (pinnable, integrity-hashed, public source).
AGENT-INSTALL.md, a condensed agent-facing setup guide shipped in the npm tarball, with a "verify before you trust" section and the full connector + widget install sequence.patchstack-connect guideCLI command that prints the bundled guide, so agents can follow instructions from inside the package they just installed — no remote fetch required.Verified: typecheck, build, all 121 tests pass, and
guideworks from both the repo layout and an extractednpm packtarball.🤖 Generated with Claude Code