Generate AI Coding Specs with VibeScaffold Wizard
Job to be done: Generate AI coding agent-ready specifications from an idea
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Ideas to get you started, adapt to your situation.
- Student
For your final year project (FYP) or a side hustle app idea, generate a detailed technical architecture and development plan to guide your coding or explain it to a supervisor.
- Entrepreneur
Turn your app idea for a new local service or e-commerce platform into a structured product vision, technical architecture, and staged development plan to share with potential co-founders or developers.
- 9-5 employee
For a new internal tool or feature you're proposing at work, generate a product vision and technical roadmap to present to your team or manager for approval and development.
What you’ll get
A complete set of planning documents for an app idea, a product vision, the technical plan, the data design, a staged build plan, and an AGENTS.md file, all produced by a free web wizard just by answering questions. The point: AI coding tools build far better when you hand them this kind of detailed plan up front instead of a one-line idea. No coding required to make the plan.
Tools you need
- VibeScaffold (free): a web wizard that walks you from a rough idea to coding-agent-ready specifications.
Steps
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Open the wizard: go to vibescaffold.dev and start. The first step asks for your product idea.
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Describe your idea and MVP: answer the prompts about what you are building and its MVP (Minimum Viable Product, the smallest version worth shipping). It helps you pin down the core features and goals.
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Get the technical plan: the wizard generates the technical architecture (how the app is built) and the data models (how its information is structured). You should see these laid out for you.
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Get a staged build plan: it breaks the work into manageable stages, so you (or an AI agent) know what to build first, second, and so on.
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Generate the AGENTS.md: the final step produces an
AGENTS.mdfile, a standing instruction document that AI coding agents read to understand and execute your plan. -
Review, then hand it to your AI coder: refine the outputs at each stage (your input is what makes them good), then feed the documents to your AI coding tool to start building.
Words you’ll see, explained
- MVP: Minimum Viable Product, the smallest version of your idea worth building and testing.
- Technical architecture: the plan for how the app’s pieces fit together.
- Data model: the structure of the information the app stores (its tables and fields).
- Staged plan: the build broken into ordered phases.
- AGENTS.md: a file of instructions an AI coding agent reads to know how to build your project.
Original source
Based on VibeScaffold by straydusk, shared on Hacker News, a wizard built to turn raw ideas into the detailed specifications AI coding agents need to work effectively.
Notes & variations
- Free-tier viability: VibeScaffold is entirely free.
- Common pitfall: vague answers early on lead to weak specs. Be as specific as you can about your vision and MVP.
- Tip for better results: read and refine the AI-generated output at each stage. The wizard provides the scaffolding; your corrections make it accurate.