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acode/cli
Autocode CLI and standard library tooling
The Autocode CLI is the command-line interface for the Autocode (formerly stdlib) serverless platform — a proprietary FaaS service that hosts Node.js functions and exposes them via a registry with versioned, addressable endpoints. It's for developers who want to publish small API functions without managing infrastructure, and who are willing to be locked into the Autocode platform to do it.
The FunctionScript convention of deriving HTTP parameter schemas from JSDoc comments is genuinely elegant — zero-config contract generation from the function signature itself. Immutable releases with mutable staging environments is the right default behavior for this kind of platform. The zero-latency intra-service calling via `lib[identifier]` is a useful escape hatch for composing functions without network overhead.
Autocode shut down in 2023 — last commit September 2023, the platform is dead, making this effectively an archive. The tool is entirely dependent on a proprietary closed-source backend; there is no self-hosting path and nothing works without the Autocode registry. The README still requires Node 8.x as a baseline, which was EOL in 2019. Local development runs through their gateway emulator, which means debugging is opaque compared to just writing an Express app.