🀝 axum Γ— marketplace

Ship marketplace on Axum with sensible defaults.

Axum is a Rust workable choice for marketplace. GreatCTO auto-detects both β€” adds the marketplace archetype overlay, wires marketplace-specific gates, and runs 83 specialist agents around your existing Axum workflow.

What changes when GreatCTO joins your Axum project

Detection β†’ overlay β†’ gates β†’ reviewers.

1 Β· DETECT

Stack + archetype

GreatCTO reads your Cargo.toml and detects axum + marketplace archetype from signals: imports, file structure, env vars, README hints.

2 Β· OVERLAY

Archetype pack

Attaches the marketplace archetype overlay: archetype-specific reviewer + compliance gates. Override if your specifics differ; the defaults are sensible for Axum-style projects.

3 Β· GATES

Axum-aware reviewers

qa-engineer runs cargo clippy / cargo test / cargo-tarpaulin; security-officer audits unsafe blocks + dependency tree; performance-engineer reviews allocator patterns.

4 Β· MEMORY

Cross-project lessons

Bugs you've hit before in other Axum projects (connection-pool exhaustion, ORM N+1 queries, retry storms) β€” the agent's Step 0 includes the prior detection order. MTTR drops 94 % on second occurrence (methodology).

First 10 minutes

Concrete walkthrough.

$ cd my-axum-app && npx great-cto init
βœ“ scanning manifests… found manifest
βœ“ stack: axum (Rust)
βœ“ archetype: marketplace
⚠ archetype + stack combo is unusual β€” review overlay manually
βœ“ 83 agents ready

$ /start "add marketplace feature"
β–Έ architect drafting ARCH-marketplace.md…
β–Έ pm decomposing into beads tasks…
⚐ gate:plan β€” your approval needed

Approve β†’ 3 senior-devs run in parallel worktrees β†’ 5 reviewers fan out in parallel β†’ gate:ship β†’ deploy. One real run walked stage-by-stage: /proof.

What ships

The first feature, Axum-idiomatic.

This is the shape of what senior-dev drafts for "marketplace feature" β€” auth first, schema validation, and the audit line the marketplace reviewer requires before gate:ship opens.

// src/handlers/marketplace.rs β€” drafted by senior-dev, reviewed by 5 agents
pub async fn create(
    user: AuthenticatedUser,                  // security-officer: extractor rejects anon
    State(state): State<AppState>,
    Json(req): Json<MarketplaceRequest>,     // qa-engineer: serde validation
) -> Result<Json<MarketplaceResponse>, AppError> {
    let result = handle(req, &user, &state).await?;
    state.audit.record(user.id, "marketplace feature", result.confidence).await?; // gate:marketplace
    Ok(Json(result))
}
Where this combo lands

What teams build with Axum + the marketplace overlay.

1

Two-sided platforms with Stripe Connect payouts.

2

Seller onboarding with KYC and 1099-K reporting.

3

Dispute mediation with escrow hold-and-release.

⚠ Honest caveat

Axum (Rust) is not a typical fit for marketplace. The archetype overlay still attaches, but you may want to override defaults more aggressively. Check the marketplace archetype page for the typical stack list and decide if your case is the right tool / right archetype.

Architecture

Every step of the pipeline, transparent.

No black-box "AI does it all" loop. GreatCTO is a deterministic state machine β€” 8 stages, 22 nodes, 2 human gates. Every node maps to a real agent on GitHub. Inspect the state machine β†’

Install

Axum + GreatCTO in one command.

$ npx great-cto init

Free, MIT, runs locally. Built as a Claude Code plugin β€” install with one command.

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