Start - Install

Step 02 / 06

Install the plugin and scaffold a site

Hakuto is a Claude Code plugin. You install it once, globally, and can scaffold new sites in any empty folder thereafter.

1Open 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
```
2Install the plugin and scaffold
Inside Claude, run each of these slash commands. The first two install Hakuto (you only do this once per machine):
```
›/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 scaffold your site:
```
›/hakuto:init
```
The scaffold drops a ready-to-go Astro project into the folder and initializes a git repo.
3Start 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.