The Eternal Page
Abjuration
Common
Inscribe a blazing-fast site or blog
Diff
First Year
Astro ships zero JS by default. For a marketing site or blog, that keeps the baseline fast, simple, and easy to deploy.
The Web of Pixels
Evocation
Legendary
Weave a full-stack web app with auth, db, and payments
Diff
Practitioner
TanStack Start gives you full-stack React without betting the app on a single host. Workers, D1, PlanetScale, and Drizzle keep the deployment honest.
The Server Keep
Abjuration
Epic
Erect a fast API at the edge
Diff
Practitioner
Hono keeps the API small, typed, and fast. Run it on Workers first, with a clean path to Bun, Node, or Deno when needed.
The Command-Line Blade
Enchantment
Rare
Forge a fast, beautiful CLI tool
Diff
Apprentice
Go gives you boring-good binaries. Cobra gives the command surface structure. Ship a real tool instead of a pile of shell scripts.
The Pocket Companion
Transmutation
Epic
Conjure an iOS + Android app from a single spell
Diff
Practitioner
Expo is the fastest practical way to start a serious mobile app in 2026: file-based routing, OTA updates, EAS builds, and a clean path from QR-code prototype to native build.
The Desktop Familiar
Conjuration
Epic
Summon a native app for Mac, Windows & Linux
Diff
Practitioner
Tauri ships a tiny binary with a Rust core and your web UI. Pick it when size, speed, and signing matter more than Electron's plugin ecosystem.
The Browser Enchantment
Illusion
Rare
Bind a spell to Chrome, Firefox & Edge
Diff
Apprentice
WXT is to extensions what Next.js is to web apps. File-based entrypoints, hot reload, MV3 by default, cross-browser builds.
The Messenger Spirit
Necromancy
Rare
Bind a bot to Discord slash commands
Diff
Apprentice
Discord's HTTP interactions model means your bot is just a function. Put it on Workers and skip the always-on bot process.
Noticefrom the council of mages
Add a Prompt to the Codex
If you want to add a prompt to the codex, or think the stack of a spell could be improved, open a PR and add it to the tome.
Companion Skill
Install the Grimoire in Codex
Use the same starter defaults inside Codex. Install the skill directly from this repo, then ask for $prompts-for-mortals when you want a new app scaffold.
npx skills add https://github.com/pandemicsyn/prompts-for-mortals/tree/main/skills/prompts-for-mortals -a codexOn the Nature of This Work
Large language models are useful builders, but vague requests still produce vague software. Each scroll here is opinionated on purpose: it picks libraries, file layout, and conventions so the model does not have to guess. Adapt the defaults when you have a reason, then read the result before you ship it.