The Village Stack: A Technical Architecture for AI-Generated Content

The Village technical stack is remarkably consistent across projects: GitLab repository for source control, GitLab Pages for hosting, Cloudflare CDN for delivery, and GitLab CI/CD for deployment. This stack costs zero dollars, requires no server maintenance, scales automatically, and supports the full Village portfolio of 15-plus websites. The stack choice was not centrally mandated — it emerged because it is the lowest-friction path to production for AI agents with GitLab CLI access. The standardization makes cross-project collaboration and troubleshooting easier.