StandardCAS builds and operates the tools a student community needs to ship real software: Launchpad, a self-hosted platform that takes a project from idea to a live URL, and SharedSpace, the network where the people who build things find each other.
Build something on Launchpad, show it on SharedSpace, find your next collaborator there, build the next thing. Everything runs on our own infrastructure — no third-party PaaS underneath.
An end-to-end place to build, preview, and ship websites — with an AI site-builder in the middle of it.
A talent directory and social layer for student communities — the hard part was never building, it was finding the people.
lp CLIEverything the dashboard does, scriptable from a terminal — the way gh and gcloud work. One scoped token drives the CLI, plain HTTP, and MCP. Each line below is annotated with what it does.
A single zero-dependency file; Node 18+ is the only requirement. Two equivalent routes:
Update later with npm install -g launchpad-lp@latest (npm installs) or lp update (curl installs).
No tokens to copy. The terminal shows a one-time code; you approve it on the dashboard's /pair screen — and you can untick any permission before granting. The device receives its own revocable, scoped credential.
Headless/CI: skip pairing with --token lpat_… or the LP_TOKEN env var. Revoke any device in Settings → Agent Tokens.
A directory becomes a live URL in one command. The first publish binds the folder to a stable deploy slot (via .launchpad.json), so republishing updates the same app at the same URL.
Git-stash for the platform: park a snapshot of a directory server-side — nothing runs, nothing deploys — and pull it down anywhere you're signed in.
Launchpad documents itself to machines and exposes a scoped MCP surface — so an AI agent can learn the platform, then act on it with exactly the permissions you granted.
The CLI doubles as a stdio MCP bridge. Your agent gets manuals, forums, publish, status, stash, and SharedSpace tools — gated by your paired token's scopes.
Any MCP client works — lp mcp config prints the snippet. Unauthenticated agents get read-only docs tools only.
Every manual is served as Markdown at /llms.txt and over MCP. The server's handshake tells a fresh agent to read the manuals before touching anything — so it learns the system the same way you would.
Students who build things deserve real infrastructure. Most student work dies in a folder: the demo that never got hosted, the team that never found its fourth member, the club project that vanished at graduation. StandardCAS exists to close that gap.
We run our own stack end to end — the dashboards, the deploy pipeline, the reverse proxies, the analytics, the AI builder, the social layer — so that a student with an idea on a Tuesday night can have a live URL, a team, and an audience by Wednesday. No credit card, no cloud-console maze, no "talk to sales."
Launchpad and SharedSpace are two halves of one belief: shipping is a skill you learn by shipping, and communities get stronger when the work — and the people behind it — are visible.