AI Tool

The wrapper around an AI model is always the same: take some input, send it to the model with the right system prompt, parse the response, show it cleanly, save it, and — if anyone's paying — watch what it costs. The model call is one line. Everything around it is the product, and it's the part that's tedious to get right every time.

This starter is that whole shell, working. It ships as a headline generator: type a description, pick one of five tones, and get five copy-ready headlines back. Under the hood it's a clean, reshapeable AI-tool skeleton — a public generate endpoint that calls ai.generateText with a tone-selected system prompt, response parsing, input validation, a honeypot for bots, and a 'recent generations' feed. Every call is saved with its cost.

Because it's built on Hatchable's AI layer, you don't pick a provider or hardcode a model: the owner pastes any supported key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) once in Setup, and the model alias tracks the current generation automatically. An admin-only dashboard wraps ai.usage() so you can see calls, spend, and a per-model/per-tone breakdown — gated to the project owner with no login to build.

To make it your own tool, edit one constant: the system prompt in api/generate.js. Five prompts become a cover-letter writer, an ad-copy generator, a code explainer, a recipe maker — anything input-to-output shaped. Copy & Launch it, change the prompt, and you've shipped an AI product with billing-grade observability already in place.