Sunscreen

A Rust CLI for scaffolding, repairing, and orchestrating Solana Anchor and Pinocchio workspaces.

Sunscreen takes you from an empty folder to a working Solana program — Anchor or Pinocchio — without hand-stitching anchor, solana, cargo, codama, surfpool, and frontend tooling. It is deterministic, marker-driven, and built for the long term: incremental edits, plugin extension, supervised dev loop.

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🌱 Learn

New to Solana, Rust, or both? Start here. We assume zero prior knowledge.

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🛠 Guides

Task-oriented walkthroughs. "How do I scaffold a CRUD?" "How do I deploy to devnet?"

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📖 Reference

Every command, every flag, every exit code. For when you know what you want.

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Why sunscreen?

Deterministic generation. Same inputs, same files, byte-for-byte. Golden-tested.
Marker-based incremental edits. Add a new instruction to an existing program without breaking what's there. chain doctor --fix-markers repairs safe drift.
Supervised dev loop. chain serve runs Surfpool (or solana-test-validator), watches files, rebuilds, regenerates Codama clients, notifies the frontend — all in one process.
Plugins. Local plugins extend scaffold <noun> via stdio JSON-RPC; gRPC contract for the future. Trust and sandboxing are explicit.
Two frameworks. Anchor for the productive default; Pinocchio for the bare-metal path.

Status

v0.1.0 is the first preview release. The path to v1.0 is tracked in the Roadmap. Phase 8 (this site, completions, Homebrew/Windows distribution, release polish) is in progress.