distilled goes self-hosting: tool now fetches AWS schemas via its own generated package

samgoodwin89 · x · 2026-11-14

Dev MKassabov showed that the distilled project now depends on itself: its code imports @distilled.cloud/aws — a package distilled generates — to fetch AWS schemas for building future versions of the tool. The fetch-specs.ts diff pulls Credentials, Region and Schemas from its own modules and uses the Effect ecosystem's HTTP client to fetch specs. A notable self-referential bootstrap pattern in code-generation tooling.

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