These stacked devs created open source tools to make AI coding agents more useful by helping them organize tasks, build apps, and automate repetitive work.
The concept is pretty interesting as a whole
Fees to their Git: emanuele-em/kanzo
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Pretty freaking incredible and a big win from the Astro team! ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit
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astro-conversion-kit: Agent Skills for Claude Code or Codex that convert a WordPress site to static Astro, keeping URLs, metadata, media and redirects and checking the design pixel by pixel. A run ends with a pull request. 51 stars.
ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit
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I finally did it. I converted all of my client WordPress websites to Astro and it only took 2 days
I've been building sites with Astro for about a year now and honestly I love it.
Every new site I've built this past year has been Astro. But I still had a ton of old client sites sitting on WordPress. Plugin updates, security patches, slow load times, all of it. I always wanted to move them over but never had a good reason to get clients on board.
Then PHP2Shell hit and it was all over the news. Clients started reaching out asking how to protect their sites. That was finally the moment.
So I built a skill package to streamline the conversions with coding agents.
I did all 53 sites in about 2 days. Ran 12 Opus 5.5 sessions at a time in parallel on 2 Claude Max plans (still hit session limits about 3 hours into each window lol).
Results across all 53:
- Mobile PageSpeed 74 → 98 average
- Desktop PageSpeed 87 → 99 average
- 45 of 45 passed 100% design match (pixel diffed at mobile, tablet and desktop)
WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS FOREVER AGO!!!
Also I built our own git-based CMS for us to use for clients that want edit access which seems to work well but we'll see as people actually use it more. How do you guys handle clients wanting to edit their own site in Astro?
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fuck it, after PHP2Shell I made a skill package and let Opus 5.5 convert 45 client WordPress sites to Astro in the past 36 hours
This made me finally pull the trigger and convert my client WP sites to Astro sites. WordPress sucks now that we have coding agents anyway.
I created this skill package to streamline this process: ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit
I ran 12 projects at a time in parallel and have 45 done so far in the past 36 hours with a dozen more running now. I'm running Opus 5.5 between 2 claude max plans. Every site has seen a massive jump in speed scores. Fuck wordpress.
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after PHP2Shell I used Opus 5.5 to convert 45 client WordPress sites to Astro in the past 36 hours
After the whole PHP2Shell thing I finally pulled the trigger and converted 45 of my client sites to static Astro sites. The sites look exactly the same, just way faster and nothing to hack, and way cheaper to host.
WordPress sucks now that we have coding agents anyways. Plugin updates, security patches, slow load times, a whole PHP server running for no reason.
I created this skill package to streamline this process: ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit
I was able to run 12 projects at a time in parallel and have 45 so far in the past 36 hours with a dozen more running now. I'm running Opus 5.5 between 2 claude max plans. Every site has seen a massive jump in speed scores.
For anyone who hasn't used Astro: it's a framework that builds your site into plain HTML files. No database, no PHP, no plugins. You host it on something like Vercel or Cloudflare (usually free) and there's nothing running on a server to hack.
How the kit works:
- You paste one line into Claude Code or Codex: "Convert yoursite.com to Astro with ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit"
- It asks you a few quick questions (where to host, how to handle forms)
- It crawls your live site (read only, it doesn't touch WordPress) and saves every page, image, meta tag and redirect
- Rebuilds it in Astro with the same URLs and SEO so you don't lose rankings
- Screenshots the old and new site on mobile, tablet and desktop and compares them until they match
- Gives you a staging link to review before you switch anything over
What it won't do on it's own: anything that needs a server like WooCommerce, logins or comments. It flags those up front. Forms still work, they just send to a form service you pick. A few of our client sites were on woocommerce so I just had the agents convert to Shopify headless which is easier to manage anyway.
“What about wp-admin” I built our own git-based CMS for these sites, so edits go through git and there’s still no server or database. If you want something off the shelf, Keystatic and TinaCMS work the same way.
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These stacked devs created open source tools to make AI coding agents more useful by helping them organize tasks, build apps, and automate repetitive work. The concept is pretty interesting as a whole Fees to their Git: emanuele-em/kanzo x.com t.co
Pretty freaking incredible and a big win from the Astro team! ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit
astro-conversion-kit: Agent Skills for Claude Code or Codex that convert a WordPress site to static Astro, keeping URLs, metadata, media and redirects and checking the design pixel by pixel. A run ends with a pull request. 51 stars. ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit
I finally did it. I converted all of my client WordPress websites to Astro and it only took 2 days I've been building sites with Astro for about a year now and honestly I love it. Every new site I've built this past year has been Astro. But I still had a ton of old client sites sitting on WordPress. Plugin updates, security patches, slow load times, all of it. I always wanted to move them over but never had a good reason to get clients on board. Then PHP2Shell hit and it was all over the news. Clients started reaching out asking how to protect their sites. That was finally the moment. So I built a skill package to streamline the conversions with coding agents. I did all 53 sites in about 2 days. Ran 12 Opus 5.5 sessions at a time in parallel on 2 Claude Max plans (still hit session limits about 3 hours into each window lol). Results across all 53: - Mobile PageSpeed 74 → 98 average - Desktop PageSpeed 87 → 99 average - 45 of 45 passed 100% design match (pixel diffed at mobile, tablet and desktop) WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS FOREVER AGO!!! Also I built our own git-based CMS for us to use for clients that want edit access which seems to work well but we'll see as people actually use it more. How do you guys handle clients wanting to edit their own site in Astro?
fuck it, after PHP2Shell I made a skill package and let Opus 5.5 convert 45 client WordPress sites to Astro in the past 36 hours This made me finally pull the trigger and convert my client WP sites to Astro sites. WordPress sucks now that we have coding agents anyway. I created this skill package to streamline this process: ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit I ran 12 projects at a time in parallel and have 45 done so far in the past 36 hours with a dozen more running now. I'm running Opus 5.5 between 2 claude max plans. Every site has seen a massive jump in speed scores. Fuck wordpress.
after PHP2Shell I used Opus 5.5 to convert 45 client WordPress sites to Astro in the past 36 hours After the whole PHP2Shell thing I finally pulled the trigger and converted 45 of my client sites to static Astro sites. The sites look exactly the same, just way faster and nothing to hack, and way cheaper to host. WordPress sucks now that we have coding agents anyways. Plugin updates, security patches, slow load times, a whole PHP server running for no reason. I created this skill package to streamline this process: ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit I was able to run 12 projects at a time in parallel and have 45 so far in the past 36 hours with a dozen more running now. I'm running Opus 5.5 between 2 claude max plans. Every site has seen a massive jump in speed scores. For anyone who hasn't used Astro: it's a framework that builds your site into plain HTML files. No database, no PHP, no plugins. You host it on something like Vercel or Cloudflare (usually free) and there's nothing running on a server to hack. How the kit works: - You paste one line into Claude Code or Codex: "Convert yoursite.com to Astro with ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit" - It asks you a few quick questions (where to host, how to handle forms) - It crawls your live site (read only, it doesn't touch WordPress) and saves every page, image, meta tag and redirect - Rebuilds it in Astro with the same URLs and SEO so you don't lose rankings - Screenshots the old and new site on mobile, tablet and desktop and compares them until they match - Gives you a staging link to review before you switch anything over What it won't do on it's own: anything that needs a server like WooCommerce, logins or comments. It flags those up front. Forms still work, they just send to a form service you pick. A few of our client sites were on woocommerce so I just had the agents convert to Shopify headless which is easier to manage anyway. “What about wp-admin” I built our own git-based CMS for these sites, so edits go through git and there’s still no server or database. If you want something off the shelf, Keystatic and TinaCMS work the same way.