---
title: "Effect Office Hours 26: Community projects and Alchemy"
description: "The hosts discuss Alchemy Effect's typed resource requirements, plans, and deployment stages."
plain: "The hosts look at an early Alchemy Effect, whose types show the resources and policies a deploy needs."
group: source
speaker: "Effect Office Hours hosts"
date: 2026-04-23
url: https://youtu.be/X4BLYNVzjDA
sources:
  - url: https://youtu.be/X4BLYNVzjDA
    title: "Reviewing Effect community projects & Alchemy - Infrastructure as TypeScript | Office Hours 26 🔥 - YouTube"
    publisher: "Effect Office Hours hosts"
    note: "Recording; used for typed resource requirements, plans, and deployment stages."
    accessed: "2026-10-01"
---

# Effect Office Hours 26: Community projects and Alchemy

> For agents: start with the [agent guide](https://ratstack.sh/llms.txt). Every page is Markdown by default; add `Accept: text/html` for HTML.

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The Alchemy segment is a short inspection of work in progress. The hosts describe an infrastructure tool built with Effect whose type requirements expose resource and policy dependencies. [81:52](https://youtu.be/X4BLYNVzjDA?t=4912) [83:05](https://youtu.be/X4BLYNVzjDA?t=4985)

They connect those requirements to planning, deployment stages, HTTP APIs, and a typed CLI preview. [84:10](https://youtu.be/X4BLYNVzjDA?t=5050) [86:21](https://youtu.be/X4BLYNVzjDA?t=5181)

## Sources

1. [Reviewing Effect community projects & Alchemy - Infrastructure as TypeScript | Office Hours 26 🔥 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/X4BLYNVzjDA)
   Effect Office Hours hosts. Recording; used for typed resource requirements, plans, and deployment stages. Accessed 2026-10-01.

## Linked from

- Agent guide → An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/llms.txt)

- Change log → What changed in the files served here, newest first. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/log)

- Full agent guide → An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/llms-full.txt)

- Rat Stack lore | rat-stack → Short, source-grounded notes on the ideas and decisions behind rat-stack. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/lore)

- Source change history (log.md) → The generated change log as Markdown. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/log.md)