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Superplane: Accelerate Platform Engineering with Open‑Source Control

Name: Superplane: Accelerate Platform Engineering with Open‑Source Control
Author: superplanehq

Founders can centrally orchestrate agents, AI‑driven workflows, and self‑hosted services, turning platform engineering into a repeatable factory. 8.0k+ GitHub stars.

From the repo · “Open source factory for one-shot engineering”

intermediate⏱ 1-2 hours💵 Free (self-hosted)

8,151 stars+401★ this week665 forksGoGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Oct 19Updated 10/22/2026100% free · open source

What it is

You use Superplane to automate repetitive tasks by writing Go code that interacts with platforms like Kubernetes and AWS.

Real use case example

"A founder, building a fast-growing startup, uses Superplane to automate their DevOps workflows by creating a Go code snippet that deploys new services to Kubernetes when new issues are created in Jira."

Best insideClaude DesktopCodex CLISelf-hosted

When to use it

•When you need to automate repetitive infrastructure tasks
•When you want to define infrastructure configurations as code
•When you need to integrate multiple tools and services into a single workflow

Ready-to-paste prompt

superplane apply -f config.yaml -v

Heads up: Make sure you have Go (version 1.18 or later) installed on your system before attempting to install and run superplane

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🔑 Needs an API key

Works after you add credentials — the setup agent will ask you for them.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/superplane && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/superplane/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/superplane/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Superplane: Accelerate Platform Engineering with Open‑Source Control works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Superplane: Accelerate Platform Engineering with Open‑Source Control is a very large Go project (~1M lines across 7155 code files, plus 73 test files). Setup is light: installs like a normal app — add your API keys. Reading the code is optional. Last commit this month, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~1M lines · 7155 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

One-command install

Installs like a normal app — add your API keys. Reading the code is optional.

Runs on

Go · Docker

Needs API keys (.env)

Go 57%TypeScript 42%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
AGENTS.md
The instructions the AI actually follows
3
cmd/cli/main.go
Where the program starts running
4
go.mod
Dependencies and the commands it exposes
5
.env.example
The API keys and settings you must provide

What's in each folder

pkg/Core code — the actual logic3684 files

cmd/Command-line entry points2 files

api/Backend / API1 files

docs/Documentation91 files

templates/Templates6 files

web_src/Folder3655 files

db/Folder459 files

scripts/Helper scripts54 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedNo CIDocker readyApache-2.0 licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🔑 Needs an API key

Works after you add credentials — the setup agent will ask you for them.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/superplane && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/superplane/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/superplane/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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