Scaffold a New App

Meta-skill that asks the right questions, picks a stack, and routes to the appropriate scaffold-* skill. Stops the "decision paralysis" tax of starting a new project.

When to use

• Starting any new project where the stack isn't pre-decided.
• Helping someone else start a project and they don't know what to pick.
• Replacing a hacked-together prototype with a production-shaped scaffold.

When NOT to use

• Project is already underway — adding scaffolding to an existing app is surgery, not scaffolding.
• The user has already declared a stack ("scaffold a Rails app") — go straight to that scaffold.
• Constrained environment (regulated, customer-mandated stack) — follow the constraint.

The decision tree

Walk through these questions with the user, in order. Stop at the first answer that determines the stack.