wtf is toolcraft?

Toolcraft is an open source starter kit and set of ready made interface pieces for building small custom design and creative tools with the help of an AI coding assistant. It is meant for making things like little creative apps, internal utilities, interactive experiments, or one off tools tailored to a specific task, rather than large production software. It works with any AI coding agent, including Codex, Claude, and Cursor. You start a new project with a command line tool, which asks for a project name and which AI agent you plan to use, then generates a folder with a working starter app already in place. From there you open that folder in your chosen AI agent and simply describe the tool you want, for example an app that applies an ASCII art effect to an uploaded image, and the agent builds on top of the starter to create it. Once ready, you run the app locally with a single command. The starter itself is built with React and TypeScript and comes with a visual canvas that already supports image upload, panning, zooming, a radar style overview, and undo history, along with a panel of common controls used in creative tools. Optional pieces like image and video layers, animation timelines, and keyframes, as well as export workflows for images and video, can be added as needed. The generated project also includes local instruction files that guide the AI agent, plus a set of unit, browser, acceptance, and performance tests. Rather than hiding this runtime and interface code inside an installed package, Toolcraft includes the actual source files directly in each generated project, so they can be inspected and edited freely. It fits best for things like procedural graphics generators, image stylization effects, shader or Three.js experiments, and small animation tools. The project was built by Pixel Point and is released under the MIT license.