Get your site running in 5 minutes

// Step 1 · Open VS Code and launch Claude

In Visual Studio Code (or your editor of choice), open a new window (File → New Window) and open or create an empty folder for your site. Then open the integrated terminal and launch Claude Code:

claude

// Step 2 · Install the plugin and scaffold

Inside Claude, run each of these slash commands. The first two install Hakuto (you only do this once per machine); the third scaffolds your site:

/plugin marketplace add teamniteo/hakuto

/plugin install hakuto@hakuto

After the install, Claude will recommend reloading plugins so the new commands become available. Go ahead and do it, then run:

/hakuto:init

The scaffold drops a ready-to-go Astro project into the folder and initializes a git repo.

// Step 3 · Start the dev server

In a second terminal (leave Claude running in the first), install bun if you don't have it yet:

curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

Then install dependencies and start the dev server:

bun install

bun run dev

Open localhost:4321 to see the placeholder site. Next step, you tell Claude what to build into it.