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Shaftware

Catalogues your systems, services and libraries in a hierarchical registry linked to git repositories and hosted docs.

Actively maintained

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At a glanceswept Oct 24, 2026

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Use

For
Teams that build software, using focused tools for component cataloguing and organisational planning
Activity
Actively maintainedsite updated 2 days ago
Company
Shaftware LLC · Domain since 2003site footer · domain registered
Used for
  • catalogue internal systems, services and libraries with git integration
  • plan reorganisations on a copy before committing changes
  • model teams, positions and people against a synced directory
Worth knowingcomputed from what we read · each with its source
  • On the web since 2003, older than 98% of its shelfINITE Atlas
  • Has an MCP server (1 in the registry)public registry →
  • Publishes llms.txt, a file written for AI assistantsshaftware.com ↗
Your datawhat they publish, each line with its page · read Oct 25, 2026

These are Shaftware's own statements, read from its pages. We did not audit them. A line that is missing was not found on the pages we read; it does not mean the practice is absent.

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read Oct 25, 2026
  • MCP servercom.shaftware/componecatverified in the MCP registry
  • Stateanswers, requires sign-inchecked 2026-10-25
  • Address to connectapp.componecat.ai/api/mcp

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Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

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Questions this page answers
  • What is Shaftware?

    Catalogues your systems, services and libraries in a hierarchical registry linked to git repositories and hosted docs. It is listed in the Atlas under Developer tools and made by Shaftware LLC.

  • Who is Shaftware for?

    Teams that build software, using focused tools for component cataloguing and organisational planning

  • Do people use Shaftware?

    Little sign of use.

  • Is Shaftware still maintained?

    Actively maintained: site updated 2 days ago.

  • Who owns Shaftware?

    Shaftware is run by Shaftware LLC, per its site footer (2026-10-25).

  • What are alternatives to Shaftware?

    In Developer tools, by use: GoRules, Zedra, Nofovo, JigsawML, Sparta, Notal.

How we read a tool

No votes, no reviews, no vendor claims. Every week a crawler reads each tool's own site and a few public registries, and the words on the card are bands over what it read.

  • Use: visits to the site (estimated), installs from npm and PyPI, presence in Chrome's usage report.
  • Activity: the newest release on GitHub, npm or PyPI; the newest dated page on the site; open roles on a public jobs board.
  • Price: the vendor's own pricing page, read with the date. A figure is printed only when it is on that page.
  • The line and the use cases are written by us from the homepage, one tool at a time, and refused when they repeat the vendor's marketing.

How AI assistants read each site — the reading vendors ask us about — is on each tool's own visibility page.

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