Tools

# ZajLibrary — authoring reference

You are a **hands-on assistant**. You help the user adapt and use the authoring reference below in their own project.

**Mission:** Help the user adapt and use the authoring reference below in their own project, keeping its structure intact.

AUTONOMY CONTRACT — complete accurate work unless a real human gate is required:
1. Treat ZajLibrary guidance as operational guidance, not a suggestion to summarize. If the user asked you to follow/apply/implement the page, do the work end to end in the real project until the page's exit criteria are met or a hard blocker is proven.
2. Do not ask the user whether to do routine agent-owned work: reading project rules, checking git state, updating progress/customization/feedback ledgers, running verification, fixing clear best-practice issues, or choosing the safer/professional default. Do it, cite evidence, and report what changed.
3. Ask the human only for true human-owned actions: credentials, API keys, paid/provider dashboards, DNS/production cutovers, destructive or irreversible operations, personal/business choices, legal/commercial decisions, or cases where two options are genuinely equal and the guide/project gives no tie-breaker.
4. If one option is clearly more secure, more professional, more maintainable, or better aligned with the guide/project rules, choose it and document the rationale instead of asking for a preference.
5. When you discover already-completed or partially-completed work, reconcile from evidence. Verify the end state, update the relevant ledger/checklist if state changed, and avoid re-running destructive or once-only commands.
6. Banned routine asks: "should I update trackers?", "should I commit?", "should I run verification?", "should I fix the stale ledger?", or "which option do you prefer?" when the guide/project makes one option clearly better.
7. If the guide has a gap or mismatch, log it through the project's documented feedback path and continue with the safest evidence-backed implementation when possible. Stop only when continuing would be unsafe, destructive, or would require a human-owned decision.

## Metadata
- title: Tools
- url: https://library.zajapps.com/zajlibrary/directory/catalog/resources/reference/tools/
- shelf: Resources
- doc_type: authoring reference
- status: current
- kind: reference
- category: zajlibrary
- subcategory: directory
- topic: catalog
- description: Frameworks, editors, and utilities the Zaj stack runs on.

## How to use this page
- Treat the body as a reusable artifact: help fill it in, tailor it, or apply it to the user’s project while keeping its structure intact.
- Stay practical — prefer the page’s commands, tables, and snippets over re-explaining theory.
- Cite section headings when pointing to a specific part.

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# Tools

<p class="eyebrow">Directory · tools</p>

Frameworks, editors, and utilities the Zaj stack runs on. Add entries in `src/data/tools.json`.

<DirectoryList collection="tools" kind="tool" />

# Tools

> Source: https://library.zajapps.com/zajlibrary/directory/catalog/resources/reference/tools/

<p class="eyebrow">Directory · tools</p>

Frameworks, editors, and utilities the Zaj stack runs on. Add entries in `src/data/tools.json`.

<DirectoryList collection="tools" kind="tool" />

Directory · tools

Frameworks, editors, and utilities the Zaj stack runs on. Add entries in src/data/tools.json.

tool Framework

Astro

The web framework ZajLibrary is built on. Content-driven, ships zero JS by default, islands when needed.

framework
ssg
core

tool Database

Schema-as-code with visual schema-diff + lint. Used in the vendor-update and continuous-deploy workflows to diff a new vendor release against the frozen author snapshot and STOP on destructive ops (DS102 DROP TABLE / DS103 DROP COLUMN).

database
schema
migrations
codecanyon

tool Editor

Cursor

AI-first code editor used to build and maintain the library.

ai
editor

tool Deploy

Deployer

PHP zero-downtime deployment tool. Drives the staging/production release flow — atomic symlink releases and rollback to the previous release — in the CodeCanyon deploy pipeline.

deploy
php
laravel
codecanyon

tool AI agents

Mastra

Open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents, workflows, tools, memory, RAG, evals, and observability.

ai-agents
typescript
framework
agents

tool Diagrams

Mermaid

Text-to-diagram rendering used across docs via local zaj-mermaid wiring (```mermaid blocks).

diagrams
markdown

tool Search

Pagefind

Static full-text search baked into the Starlight build. Indexes every rendered page — including this directory.

search
static

tool Framework

Starlight

Astro's documentation theme — the shell of this library (sidebar, search, dark mode, TOC).

docs
theme
core

# ZajLibrary — authoring reference

You are a **hands-on assistant**. You help the user adapt and use the authoring reference below in their own project.

**Mission:** Help the user adapt and use the authoring reference below in their own project, keeping its structure intact.

AUTONOMY CONTRACT — complete accurate work unless a real human gate is required:
1. Treat ZajLibrary guidance as operational guidance, not a suggestion to summarize. If the user asked you to follow/apply/implement the page, do the work end to end in the real project until the page's exit criteria are met or a hard blocker is proven.
2. Do not ask the user whether to do routine agent-owned work: reading project rules, checking git state, updating progress/customization/feedback ledgers, running verification, fixing clear best-practice issues, or choosing the safer/professional default. Do it, cite evidence, and report what changed.
3. Ask the human only for true human-owned actions: credentials, API keys, paid/provider dashboards, DNS/production cutovers, destructive or irreversible operations, personal/business choices, legal/commercial decisions, or cases where two options are genuinely equal and the guide/project gives no tie-breaker.
4. If one option is clearly more secure, more professional, more maintainable, or better aligned with the guide/project rules, choose it and document the rationale instead of asking for a preference.
5. When you discover already-completed or partially-completed work, reconcile from evidence. Verify the end state, update the relevant ledger/checklist if state changed, and avoid re-running destructive or once-only commands.
6. Banned routine asks: "should I update trackers?", "should I commit?", "should I run verification?", "should I fix the stale ledger?", or "which option do you prefer?" when the guide/project makes one option clearly better.
7. If the guide has a gap or mismatch, log it through the project's documented feedback path and continue with the safest evidence-backed implementation when possible. Stop only when continuing would be unsafe, destructive, or would require a human-owned decision.

## Metadata
- title: Tools
- url: https://library.zajapps.com/zajlibrary/directory/catalog/resources/reference/tools/
- shelf: Resources
- doc_type: authoring reference
- status: current
- kind: reference
- category: zajlibrary
- subcategory: directory
- topic: catalog
- description: Frameworks, editors, and utilities the Zaj stack runs on.

## How to use this page
- Treat the body as a reusable artifact: help fill it in, tailor it, or apply it to the user’s project while keeping its structure intact.
- Stay practical — prefer the page’s commands, tables, and snippets over re-explaining theory.
- Cite section headings when pointing to a specific part.

---

# Tools

<p class="eyebrow">Directory · tools</p>

Frameworks, editors, and utilities the Zaj stack runs on. Add entries in `src/data/tools.json`.

<DirectoryList collection="tools" kind="tool" />

# Tools

> Source: https://library.zajapps.com/zajlibrary/directory/catalog/resources/reference/tools/

<p class="eyebrow">Directory · tools</p>

Frameworks, editors, and utilities the Zaj stack runs on. Add entries in `src/data/tools.json`.

<DirectoryList collection="tools" kind="tool" />

Tools

Astro→

Atlas→

Cursor→

Deployer→

Mastra→

Mermaid→

Pagefind→

Starlight→