Manifestack
Manifestack is a free, MIT-licensed, read-only skill and CLI for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other coding agents. It helps developers choose a technology stack, audit an existing stack for limits, costs, outages, overlaps and data/compliance rules, and keep those decisions current using vendors' public pages.
At a Glance
- Developers
- Small engineering teams
- Agencies choosing and maintaining client stacks
- SaaS and application teams using third-party cloud, data, auth, payments, email, monitoring and AI vendors
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Manifestack
Stack Audit Skill for Coding Agents
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Latest News
Manifestack v0.4.0 released with compare mode, severity-ranked findings, STACK.md priorities, richer questions and expanded detection/vendor maps.
Manifestack v0.3.0 released with package-manager hook support, Cursor postToolUse support and Node.js 22+ requirements.
The project added token and speed benchmarks with budgets checked in CI.
The project fixed polynomial-regex CodeQL alerts by moving manifest, revisit and points parsing to linear-time behavior.
Products & Services
An MIT-licensed, zero-dependency Node.js package installed with npx manifestack. It provides init for new projects, audit for existing projects, compare for vendor choices, and an optional guard/hook that flags newly added vendor SDKs. It runs locally, needs no account or API keys, reads dependency/config files and environment-variable names, and writes only .manifestack/STACK.md and temporary working files.
Market Position
Manifestack positions itself as a stack-aware, current-data layer inside coding agents rather than a generic chatbot or static technology recommendation: it reads the actual repository, checks live vendor pages, models cost and limits against the team's workload, flags overlaps and compliance gaps, and preserves decisions for future changes. Its practical alternatives are asking a general-purpose coding agent for architecture advice or manually researching vendor pricing and limits.
Leadership
Founders
Dmitrii Mingalev
GitHub identifies Mingalev as a blockchain developer. He is the copyright holder named in Manifestack's MIT license and the author of the project's commits and releases under the dminglv account.
Founding Story
Manifestack was started around the idea that selecting a stack is easier than keeping it correct as a product grows: agents can add services, plans can hit quotas, bills can grow, and data-region or compliance requirements can be missed. Its initial vision was an open-source, local, read-only agent skill that reads a project's dependencies and requirements, checks current vendor pages, reports what will break first and records decisions in .manifestack/STACK.md.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Free, open-source software distributed through GitHub and npm; the project states there is no paid tier, account or Manifestack server to pay for.
Pricing Tiers
The website and README describe Manifestack as free, with no paid tier and no account required.
Target Markets
- Developers
- Small engineering teams
- Agencies choosing and maintaining client stacks
- SaaS and application teams using third-party cloud, data, auth, payments, email, monitoring and AI vendors
- Selecting an initial stack for a new SaaS or application
- Auditing an existing product before growth or launch
- Forecasting vendor bills, quotas and first failure points at a target user count
- Checking data residency, compliance and other hard requirements
- Comparing alternative vendors such as Neon and Supabase
- Preventing an AI coding agent from adding redundant or unsuitable services