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 # cuddle
 
+## What is Cuddle
+
+Cuddle at its heart is a tool to extend your repository project from common
+components to provide essential features, such as building the project,
+deploying it, scaffolding code, or any other cross cutting feature that is
+useful across your fleet of projects.
+
+Cuddle exists to provide a golden path development for projects that are setup
+from common templates, such as a rust-web-service, rust-cli, go-service etc.
+
+Cuddle allows a small team of developers to develop curated development tools
+targeted directly at what your developers needs to succeed.
+
+## How
+
+Cuddle by itself doesn't ship anything, it is a composition tool, but provides
+some foundational components that a platform team can choose to compose to
+achieve the result they want.
+
+A common graph of dependencies will look like so:
+
+- A golang service
+  - Depends on a github.com/kjuulh/cuddle-golang-service-plan
+    - Composes over
+      - docker build (Build pipelien)
+      - docker push (Push artifacts)
+      - kustomize (Compose actual manifest for deployment)
+      - kjuulh/release-manager (Deliver the manifest to deployment mechanism)
+
+This means that no matter how many golang services we've got we only need a
+single plan to service all of your users.
+
+### Composition
+
+Cuddle is a purely composition based tool, it means that it allows splitting
+cross cutting needs into many small chunks which can then be included in your
+service.
+
+The way the services are usually created is that usually all the field are templated, or setup with default configurations just to give a hint that those features are available.
+
+```nickel
+let { Vars, .. } = import "github/kjuulh/cuddle" in
+let { GoPlan, .. } = import "github/kjuulh/cuddle-go-service-plan" in
+
+{
+  vars = {
+    name = "some-service",
+    owner = "kjuulh"
+  },
+
+  go_plan = {
+    version = "1.22",
+
+    database = true,
+    messagequeue = true,
+    cache = true,
+
+    external = true,
+    internal = true,
+
+    deployment = {
+      dev = {
+        cron = {
+          schedule = "* 0 * * *"
+          http = "/refresh-cache"
+        }
+        env = {
+          "openai.user" = "kjuulh" # Creates a env var with OPENAI_USER for the service
+          "openai.key" = { # Creates a env var with OPENAI_KEY managed by vault
+            from_vault = {
+              path = "/some/path/to/key"
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+} & Vars & GoPlan
+```
+
+A component has the same setup, but includes a different key to define what it requires
+
+```nickel
+let { Vars, Component .. } = import "github/kjuulh/cuddle" in
+
+{
+  vars = {
+    name = "docker build",
+    owner = "kjuulh"
+  },
+
+  component = {
+    actions = {
+      docker_build = {
+        type = rust
+        path = "actions/docker_build"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+} & Vars & Component
+```
+
+A plan is usually a composition of other components. 
+
+```nickel
+let { Vars, Component, .. } = import "github/kjuulh/cuddle" in
+let { ServicePlan, .. } = import "github/kjuulh/cuddle/services" in
+
+# in this case a service plan only really requires implementing a few actions
+
+{
+  vars = {
+    name = "docker build",
+    owner = "kjuulh"
+  },
+
+  component = {
+    actions = {
+      ci = { # CI is now required to be implemented for the nickel spec to be parsed successfully
+        type = rust
+        path = "actions/ci"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+} & Vars & Component & ServicePlan
+```