Litestartup Skills

Publish from your editor. No dashboard needed.

Overview

Litestartup Skills is an open-source skill package that connects your AI coding agent (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf) to the LiteStartup platform. Write markdown or HTML in your editor, run one prompt, and your content is live.

With Litestartup Skills, you can update your website, docs, blog, changelog, and send campaign emails in the same coding session — keeping content in sync with your project at all times.

Prerequisites

• A LiteStartup account (free signup)
• Git installed on your machine
• An AI coding editor: Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or Windsurf

Step 1: Get a content repo

There are two ways to get a content repository. Managed Git is the recommended default — it needs only your LiteStartup API key.

Option A — Managed Git (recommended, one key)

Let LiteStartup host a private repo for your domain. Ask your AI editor:

Create a site for mydomain.com — a homepage, a blog, and docs.

LiteStartup creates a private repository, seeds it with a starter theme, and returns a clone URL. Clone it and start editing:

git clone https://git.litestartup.com/<your-repo>.git

Your API key is used as the git credential automatically (read from ~/.litestartup/credentials, never written into the repo or the remote URL). Every git push publishes the changed pages automatically — no separate sync step.

No GitHub account, no OAuth, no second credential. This is the simplest path.

Option B — Bring your own public repo

Prefer to keep content in your own repository? Create a public repo on GitHub, GitLab, or Gitee, then bind it (Step 4). It must be public so LiteStartup can pull from it.

mkdir my-content && cd my-content
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/yourname/my-content.git

Step 2: Install Litestartup Skills

Clone the skill repo and copy the adapter file for your editor into your content repo:

git clone https://github.com/litestartup-com/litestartup-skills.git

Copy the adapter for your editor:

The adapter file tells your AI editor how to use Litestartup Skills — it loads the capabilities and specs automatically.

Step 3: Get your API Key

1. Log in to LiteStartup Dashboard.
2. Go to Settings > API Keys.
3. Click Create API Key.
4. Select the required scopes:

5. Copy the API key and save it securely. You will provide it during the bind step.

Tip: If you plan to send emails (e.g., newsletters, release announcements) via your AI editor, include the notification or email scope.

Step 4: Bind your repo

Using managed Git (Option A)? Skip this step — your repo is already bound. Go to Step 6 (sync/publish is automatic on push).

Open your content repo in your AI editor and use a natural language prompt to bind:

Prompt example:

Bind this repo to my LiteStartup account.

The AI will:

1. Ask you to provide your API key (stored locally at ~/.litestartup/credentials, never displayed)
2. Detect the git remote URL
3. Call the LiteStartup bind API
4. Create a litestartup.yaml config file in your repo root

After success, you'll see:

✅ Repo bound to LiteStartup. You can now sync content.

Step 5: Initialize your content repo

Ask your AI editor to set up the initial content structure based on your project:

Prompt example:

Initialize this content repo for my project "MyApp". Create:
- A homepage introducing MyApp
- An about page
- A blog post announcing our launch
- A quickstart doc in English
- A v1.0.0 changelog entry

The AI will create files following the Litestartup Skills specs:

my-content/
├── litestartup.yaml
├── blog/
│   └── announcing-myapp-launch.md
├── website/
│   ├── index.html
│   └── about.html
├── docs/
│   ├── config.json
│   └── en/
│       ├── _nav.md
│       ├── _sidebar.md
│       └── index.md
├── changelog/
│   └── v1.0.0.md
└── campaign/
    └── email-campaign-skill-launch.md

Step 6: First sync (test)

Run your first sync to verify everything works:

Prompt example:

Sync all my content to production.

The AI will:

1. Validate file structure and frontmatter
2. git add, git commit, git push
3. Call the sync API
4. Report results:

✅ Sync completed
inserted: blog/announcing-myapp-launch.md
inserted: website/index.html
inserted: website/about.html
inserted: docs/en/index.md
inserted: changelog/v1.0.0.md

Your content is now live at https://yourdomain.com.

Step 7: Ongoing workflow

Once set up, you use Litestartup Skills just like you use your AI editor for coding — continuous, natural language driven updates:

Update content when your project changes:

Our pricing changed from $9 to $12/mo. Update the pricing page and the docs pricing section, then write a changelog entry for this change.

Write and publish a blog post:

Write a blog post about our new API v2 release. Include the key improvements and migration guide. Then sync it.

Update docs after shipping a feature:

We just shipped a dark mode feature. Add a "Dark Mode" section to the features docs and update the changelog.

Send a campaign email to subscribers:

Send a campaign email to newsletter_en subscribers announcing our new dark mode feature.

The AI writes a Markdown email in campaign/, commits, pushes, and triggers sync. LiteStartup converts it to HTML, runs an AI safety review, and sends to all active contacts in the tag.

Send a notification email:

Send a notification email about our new dark mode feature. Subject: "Dark mode is here!" Body: brief announcement with a link to the docs.

Partial sync (only changed files):

I only updated the pricing page. Sync just that file.

Key insight: You can develop your project and keep all content (website, docs, blog, changelog) up to date — and send campaign emails to your subscribers — in the same AI coding session. No context switching, no separate CMS, no manual copy-pasting.

Supported content types

Supported editors

Pricing

Litestartup Skills is free and open source (MIT license).

You need a LiteStartup account to sync content. Sign up free.