Hof

Hofstadter publishes hof, a command line tool built around CUE, the configuration language used to describe data, schemas and configuration as a single source of truth. The idea is that one model drives everything downstream: generate many YAML and JSON files at once from a CUE based source, generate application code across a stack, explore data or config in a terminal interface with live reload, and run workflows whose task dependency order is inferred automatically. Code generation sits at the center of the product. Templates combine with CUE data to produce output for any language or technology, and hof is built so that custom code written directly in the generated output survives regeneration. Generated code therefore behaves more like living scaffolding than a one time bootstrap: when the data model changes, the change propagates through the stack instead of forcing a manual rewrite. Other capabilities include data model definition with life cycle features, CUE module dependency management, the core def, eval, export and vet commands, creators that bootstrap projects from any repository, and a chat feature that pairs a language model with hof code generation so model output lands inside a structured generator. It suits platform and backend teams who already keep schemas and configuration under version control and want consistency across services without committing to one framework. The vendor distinguishes two kinds of user, those building reusable modules and those composing applications from modules others wrote. hof is technology agnostic, normally used at development time, with generated code committed to git. The site is the documentation site for the tool and carries no pricing page or plans, so there is no published commercial offering to quote.