Components
Define what your backend can do. Connect payments, databases, messaging, storage, and APIs. Configure how they run in development, staging, and production.
Built for you. Ready for your agents.
The operational layer for the age of AI-built software.
Your agents can write the code. Give them a backend they can actually work with.
AI is making software faster to build than ever. But every new feature still depends on real systems: payments, databases, messaging, storage, APIs. Agents can generate the application code. They still have to invent, or reverse-engineer, how your backend actually works.
That is the bottleneck. Making the backend legible enough to build on.
Ductape makes your backend components legible, composable, and executable. You define them once. You and your agents reuse them everywhere.
EXAMPLE FEATURECheckout4 connected actions
Charge paymentStripe01
Update inventoryPostgreSQL02- Create orderPostgreSQL03
- Send confirmationMessaging04
Same components. One reusable feature.
One foundation. Your existing stack.StripePostgreSQL
MongoDB
AWS
Google Cloud
StripePostgreSQLMongoDBAWSGoogle CloudThe problem
Your backend is opaque to the tools trying to build on it.
A payment provider can charge or refund. A database can update an order. A messaging service can notify a customer. Each capability has configuration, credentials, environments, actions, and failure modes.
Today that knowledge lives in SDKs, env files, application code, and the heads of the people who wired it up. Agents cannot see it cleanly. Teams re-implement it. Every new feature risks becoming another one-off integration.
Each capability has a lot of moving parts.
- Configuration
- Base URLs, database hosts, bucket names.
- Credentials
- API keys, passwords, tokens, and access.
- Environments
- Development, staging, production.
- Actions
- What you can actually do.
- Failure modes
- Errors, limits, retries, and timeouts.
Ductape turns those capabilities into components: self-contained units that carry their own context.
You define the component. Ductape provides the context and execution layer around it.
How it works
From components
to features.
Define your backend once. Compose it into features.
Run it with a shared runtime.
Features
Compose those actions into business logic.
- CheckoutCharge → update inventory → create order → send confirmation
- OnboardingCreate user → verify identity → save results → send welcome email
- RefundLook up payment → issue refund → update order → notify customer
- Document uploadStore file → save metadata → trigger job
Feature: CheckoutCOMPOSE ONCE
chargeStripeupdateInventoryPostgreSQLcreateOrderPostgreSQLsendConfirmationMessaging
Execution, with context
Runtime and map
Features run through a shared runtime: retries, timeouts, error handling, logs, metrics, and tracing. See what exists, what uses it, and what actually happened when it ran.
chargeStripe
updateInventoryPostgreSQL
createOrderPostgreSQL
sendConfirmationMessaging
When something breaks, you see the path.
Why this matters now
Agents need more than API access.
An API key is not context. Agents need to know which actions exist, how they are configured, which environment they target, what they expect, and how they fail. Ductape makes that structure discoverable and usable.
Teams need more than generated code.
As agents write more of the application, someone still has to operate the system. Reusable components and shared execution visibility keep the backend understandable while the volume of code goes up.
Infrastructure should not be a per-feature cost.
Checkout, refunds, and reconciliation should not each re-solve payments and data access. Define the capability once. Compose it many times. Keep provider configuration with the component.
The difference
Without Ductape vs with Ductape
| Without Ductape | With Ductape |
|---|---|
| Agents generate the same integration code again | Agents work against defined capabilities |
| Config and credentials scattered across projects | Components own their config and environments |
| Retries, logging, and errors reimplemented | Runtime handles execution and observability |
| Hard to see what already exists | Shared map of components, features, and runs |
| Backend gets harder to understand as it grows | A reusable foundation for the next feature |
Build on what exists
Give your agents a backend
worth building on.
Every component you define becomes something your team and your agents can use again. Every feature draws from that foundation.
Build on what exists. Stop reinventing the backend.