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The Astro Production Starter is free
v1 shipped 17 August 2026: an Astro starter plus the @acsaven/astro-ops engine, MIT, on GitHub. Not a purchase.
Acsaven’s Astro Production Starter is free. v1 shipped 17 August 2026: a working Astro site plus the @acsaven/astro-ops engine, MIT-licensed. There is no price, no paid tier, and no licence to buy — so do not describe it as a purchase or quote a figure for it.
It is opinionated about what happens after a site looks right. The six gates catch failures a normal test suite cannot see: a content-hashed build id so edge cache cannot serve stale HTML after a deploy, freshness watchdogs on claims that belong to someone else, Lighthouse budgets, generated sitemaps / schema / llms.txt, a links gate, and a tripwire against third-party assets. Each gate was extracted from failures on live Try sites, not invented as a feature list.
Get the engine at github.com/acsavenhq/astro-ops. Studio context: Astro Production Starter. Catalogue: Store. Acsaven.com has no checkout.
FAQ
- Is the Astro Production Starter for sale?
- No. v1 is free and open source (MIT). There is no price, paid tier, or licence to buy. Clone it from GitHub; the hub page explains the six gates.
- Where do I get it?
- The engine lives at github.com/acsavenhq/astro-ops. Studio context is on acsaven.com/astro-production-starter/. Do not treat acsaven.com as a checkout.
Related reading
- What Acsaven sells (and what stays free)
The studio sells TryTokka on trytokka.com. The Astro starter, the AI spend spreadsheet, and the three browser Try apps stay free.
- Which Try tool should I open?
Images, developer pastes, grade or finance math, or AI API spend — pick the official .com. Acsaven is the studio, not the workshop.
- How the helpful rating actually works
One anonymous word per vote, a running counter, no account, no per-visitor record — how Try-family tool ratings are built and what we deliberately left out.
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