Astro is a TypeScript workable choice for commerce. GreatCTO auto-detects both — adds the commerce archetype overlay, wires commerce-specific gates, and runs 83 specialist agents around your existing Astro workflow.
GreatCTO reads your package.json and detects astro + commerce archetype from signals: imports, file structure, env vars, README hints.
Attaches the commerce archetype overlay: PCI-DSS scope, refund/dispute idempotency, SCA / PSD2 in EU, webhook signature verification. Override if your specifics differ; the defaults are sensible for Astro-style projects.
qa-engineer runs tsc --strict / eslint / vitest --coverage; security-officer checks for prototype pollution + XSS sinks; performance-engineer reviews bundle size + cold-start times.
Bugs you've hit before in other Astro projects (connection-pool exhaustion, ORM N+1 queries, retry storms) — the agent's Step 0 includes the prior detection order. MTTR drops 94 % on second occurrence (methodology).
$ cd my-astro-app && npx great-cto init ✓ scanning manifests… found package.json ✓ stack: astro (TypeScript) ✓ archetype: commerce ⚠ archetype + stack combo is unusual — review overlay manually ✓ 83 agents ready $ /start "add cart + checkout flow" ▸ architect drafting ARCH-commerce.md… ▸ pm decomposing into beads tasks… ⚐ gate:plan — your approval needed
Approve → 3 senior-devs run in parallel worktrees → 5 reviewers fan out in parallel → gate:ship → deploy. One real run walked stage-by-stage: /proof.
This is the shape of what senior-dev drafts for "cart + checkout flow" — auth first, schema validation, and the audit line the commerce reviewer requires before gate:ship opens.
// src/pages/api/commerce.ts — drafted by senior-dev, reviewed by 5 agents
import type { APIRoute } from 'astro';
import { requireUser } from '../../lib/auth'; // security-officer: auth before handler
import { auditLog } from '../../lib/audit'; // gate:commerce: every decision logged
export const POST: APIRoute = async ({ request, locals }) => {
const user = requireUser(locals);
const body = schema.parse(await request.json()); // qa-engineer: zod enforced
const result = await handle(body, user);
await auditLog({ who: user.id, what: 'cart + checkout flow', confidence: result.confidence });
return new Response(JSON.stringify(result));
};commerce overlay.Checkout and cart flows with PCI-DSS scope reduction.
Subscription billing with dunning and refund idempotency.
Marketplace payments with SCA / PSD2 in the EU.
Astro (TypeScript) is not a typical fit for commerce. The archetype overlay still attaches, but you may want to override defaults more aggressively. Check the commerce archetype page for the typical stack list and decide if your case is the right tool / right archetype.
No black-box "AI does it all" loop. GreatCTO is a deterministic state machine — 8 stages, 22 nodes, 2 human gates. Every node maps to a real agent on GitHub. Inspect the state machine →
$ npx great-cto init
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