Anesis

Anesis is a Rust CLI for scaffolding projects from remote templates and extending them with reusable, versioned project addons.

Install

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anesis-dev/anesis/main/install.sh | bash   # Linux/macOS
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anesis-dev/anesis/main/install.ps1 | iex          # Windows
npm install -g anesis-cli                                                              # npm
cargo install anesis                                                                   # cargo

Quick start

anesis login                    # authenticate (required for remote templates/addons)
anesis new my-app react-vite-ts # scaffold a project from a template
cd my-app
anesis addon install drizzle
anesis use drizzle init         # apply an addon command to the project
anesis status                   # show the project's template + applied addons

Commands

anesis new <NAME> [TEMPLATE]        create a project (--stack to scaffold template + addons)
anesis template <install|list|info|remove|publish|update>
anesis addon <install|list|info|test|remove|publish|update>
anesis stack <install|list|info|remove|publish|update>
anesis use [ADDON] [COMMAND]        run an addon command in the current project
anesis undo <ADDON>                 revert an applied addon's changes
anesis outdated / anesis update <ADDON>
anesis search [QUERY]               search templates/addons/stacks
anesis login / logout / account
anesis mcp                          run an MCP stdio server for AI agents
anesis completions <shell>          bash, zsh, fish, powershell
anesis info / anesis status

Short aliases: n new, t template, a addon, s stack, in login, out logout. Most commands accept --json for machine-readable output and --yes to skip prompts.

Full command reference: npm/README.md. Docs and template/addon catalog: https://anesis-dev.vercel.app.

Local data

Anesis stores state under ~/.anesis/: cached templates/addons, auth.json, and a version-check cache. Inside a scaffolded project, applied addons are tracked in anesis.lock.

License