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Corral

Auth and Stripe billing that AI coding agents can set up

Details

External ID
47053308
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Corral
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Feb. 17, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.10512129380053908
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Hey HN. I built Corral because every time I asked an AI coding agent to "add auth and payments," it hallucinated for an hour and produced broken code. Wrong imports, phantom endpoints, a login page wired to nothing.The problem isn't the agent. It's that auth-to-billing-to-gating is genuinely hard to wire, and there's no machine-readable spec for how to do it.Corral is an open-source CLI (MIT) that gives your agent a spec it can read (llms.txt), then scaffolds auth + Stripe billing into your existing project. It detects your framework (Express, Next.js, Hono, Fastify, and 13+ more), embeds into your existing server (doesn't create a new one), and generates working components: profile page, admin dashboard, plan gating, Stripe checkout, usage metering. One YAML config file controls everything.The agent workflow is 9 commands. Every command supports --json. Errors include a "fix" field. Exit 0 means deploy-ready.I hardened this across 10 framework/DB combos with blind agent tests: 3 AI models, 3 rounds each, then a 10-agent fleet. Found and fixed real edge cases like Express 4 vs 5 route patterns, Vite proxy ordering, and agents creating duplicate servers instead of embedding into existing ones.To try it, paste this into any AI coding agent: Read: https://llama-farm.github.io/corral/llms.txt Add auth and Stripe billing to my app. Built on Better Auth + Stripe. 18 CLI commands, 30+ templates.GitHub: https://github.com/llama-farm/corral npm: npx create-corral init Docs: https://llama-farm.github.io/corral/

Enrichment

Theme
payments, billing, and wallet infrastructure
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Vertical SaaS
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI feature
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
authentication and billing for ai agents
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Providing a turnkey abstraction layer or CLI/library that glues standard auth (e.g., JWT, OAuth) and Stripe billing webhooks together is classic web CRUD and API integration.

Discussion

9 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Better Auth, Stripe

Concerns raised: Webhook setup complexity and common mistakes (raw body parsing, auth middleware ordering), Crypto payment support not yet available, Agent-built auth frequently fails at webhook handling

Feature requests: Support for cryptocurrency payments (BTC, USDC), Additional auth providers beyond current 9 OAuth options, Plugin system for third-party auth services to add support

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 115 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #112 of 116 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 108 days after the earliest competitor.

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