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Stationery

Stationery is a lightweight toolkit for AI-assisted coding.
Each tool is small, simple, and flexible — you can start using it anytime,
and step away just as easily.

From early prototyping to large-scale enterprise development,
Stationery supports your workflow without taking control.
It adapts to your way of building.

Motivation

Stationery is a toolkit that brings together the best of both worlds — the ease of vibe-coding and the steadiness of Spec-Driven Development.

Vibe-coding — talking with AI and writing code as ideas come — makes it easy to turn inspiration into shape. But that ease doesn’t last forever. As your project grows, intentions blur, specs drift, and maintenance slowly becomes impossible.

Spec-Driven Development was born to solve that problem — a way to collaborate with AI while keeping your project structured and stable. Tools like Spec Kit and OpenSpec show how powerful this approach can be.

Yet, after using them for real projects, they can sometimes feel a bit heavy. For example:

• They lock your project in. Once you start, your entire spec format depends on the tool — moving away becomes nearly impossible.
• They enforce a single process. Each tool defines how you should develop, leaving little room for your own team’s style.
• They’re almost impossible to introduce mid-project. You can’t use them effectively without specs for every part of your codebase — preparing those takes enormous time and effort.
• They require constant maintenance. Natural language is always more ambiguous than code. As development continues, mismatches and contradictions easily appear between specs. To keep things working, you must keep checking and updating by hand.

Stationery was created out of a wish to keep the reliability of Spec-Driven Development, while leaving behind that heaviness — a lighter, gentler way to work with AI.

No lock-in. Stationery tools don’t depend on any part of your project. You decide which resources to connect, and how.

No need to follow the tool’s way. Stationery doesn’t prescribe a workflow. Use only the tools that fit you, and leave the rest. You don’t adapt to the tool — the tool adapts to you.

Start instantly. No setup, no commands, no preparation needed. Just take one file you like from this repository, and drop it into yours.

When you’re done, just put it away. Stationery tools — and whatever they generate — can be removed at any time. Keep what helps, and let go of what doesn’t.

Stationery isn’t a framework or a system. It’s a small collection of tools — calm, simple, and always by your side, like the stationery on your desk.