Open source · MIT
Norns
The development ecosystem built for AI authorship.
A flavored stack — Civet, Pug-flavored Svelte 5, SvelteKit — engineered so AI writes applications and automations with dramatically fewer tokens.
Why it matters
Tokens are the new compute.
Every token an AI spends on boilerplate is a token not spent on your logic. Norns compresses the surface of a full-stack app — templates, scripts, wiring — so the same context window holds more of your application, generation runs faster, and costs drop 20–25%.
Denser syntax
Civet scripts and Pug templates express the same Svelte 5 logic in fewer tokens — without losing readability.
Feature-folder runtime
DI, validation and server actions follow one repeatable pattern AI can copy for every new domain.
Built on standards
Svelte 5, SvelteKit 2, Vite, Tailwind 4, valibot — Norns flavors the stack, it doesn't replace it.
The ecosystem
Six repos, one pattern.
norns
MITThe framework — preprocess pipeline, runtime, server actions, auto-imports.
norns-core
MITThe compiler core — Civet + Pug transforms that power the pipeline.
norns-ui
MITUI components, motion primitives and form patterns, shipped as .n source.
norns-app
MITThe starter template — a full runtime demo in ~60 lines you can rewrite in a sitting.
norns-demo
MITSide-by-side comparisons vs vanilla SvelteKit, with LOC and token counts.
norns-mcp
PaidThe paid MCP server — gives AI agents first-class Norns awareness and tooling.
Get started
One command.
Scaffold a full Norns app — runtime, DI, validation, a working feature folder — and start building.