Product Comparison
Which Boring Infra Co. tool fits your workflow.
Boring Infra Co. products are independent. Use this guide to pick the right tool — or combine them.
By problem
| Problem | Product | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Install CLI tools with undo | Root | Lockfile + snapshots + isolated profile |
| Spin up throwaway cloud env | Sandman | TTL, auto-reap, multi-provider |
| Understand how your stack connects | Combie | Evidence-backed relationships across providers |
| Audit agent security paths | Pico | Local security graph, attack path mapping |
| Continue work across agents | Harnie | Import sessions, generate handoff Markdown |
| Bind evidence to this software state | Meno | proven / disproven / unknown on a subject hash |
| Give a team and its agents one place to work | Campfire | Shared goals, work, decisions, and results |
By role
Individual developer
- Root for reproducible tool installs
- Sandman for quick cloud experiments
- Harnie when switching between Pi and OpenCode
- Meno before calling a change proven
- Campfire when more than one person or agent is doing the same work
Platform / infra engineer
- Sandman for disposable staging environments
- Combie for dependency mapping and incident context
- Root for team lockfiles
AI / agent engineer
- Combie MCP for stack-aware agents
- Pico for security review before deploying agent configs
- Root for agent bundle portability
- Harnie for cross-agent handoffs
- Meno for verification state agents and humans share
- Campfire for a shared place the team and its agents can see
By data location
| Product | Where state lives | Cloud dependency |
|---|---|---|
| Root | ~/.root/ |
None |
| Sandman | ~/.sandman/ |
Your cloud accounts |
| Combie | .combie/ |
Provider APIs at sync time |
| Pico | .pico/ |
None |
| Harnie | $HARNIE_HOME/ |
None |
| Meno | .meno/ |
None |
| Campfire | local workspace state | None |
Combining products
Products work well together but do not require each other:
Root (install tools) → Sandman (test in cloud) → Combie (understand stack)
→ Pico (audit agent paths)
→ Harnie (hand off to next agent)
→ Campfire (shared place for the work)
→ Meno (bind evidence to this subject)Feature matrix
| Root | Sandman | Combie | Pico | Harnie | Meno | Campfire | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLI-first | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Preview |
--json output |
Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Planned | Yes | Planned |
| MCP for agents | No | No | Yes | Planned | No | Yes | Planned |
| Local SQLite | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Planned |
| Undo / destroy | Rollback | Destroy | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Open source | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Preview | Yes | Preview |
Still unsure?
Start with Quick Start or read each product’s overview.