docs: retire the "Develop Once, Deploy Anywhere" tagline - #2257
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defang.io retired this tagline in July 2026 when the homepage moved to "Become AI-Native. Maintain Engineering Sovereignty." These three READMEs still lead with it, so the npm package page and the GitHub landing page both show messaging the website no longer uses. Replace it with a line that says what the CLI actually does. No other changes: the CLI, the package name, and the commands are unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LGTM — clean, consistent 3-line change across README.md, src/README.md, and pkgs/npm/README.md, matching the PR description exactly. No CLI/package/command changes.
Non-blocking note: README.md still embeds the Element_Wordmark_Slogan logo image right above this heading, which bakes in the old "Develop Once, Deploy Anywhere" tagline graphically. That asset lives in defang-assets, out of scope here — just flagging so it's on someone's radar for a follow-up if the wording retirement is meant to be complete.
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Closing: the premise was wrong. "Develop Once, Deploy Anywhere" was not retired. What changed in July 2026 was the defang.io browser hero, which moved to a company-level, CTO-facing line. The phrase is still live on the site for AI agents ( The decision: "Develop Once, Deploy Anywhere" is the tagline for the product, and "Become AI-Native. Maintain Engineering Sovereignty" is the tagline for the company. These operate at different levels and do not compete. A README reader is a developer, so the product line is the correct one here. Also worth recording: this PR would have broken the README generation. The naming rule is being written into |
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Why
defang.ioretired "Develop Once, Deploy Anywhere" in July 2026, when the homepage moved to "Become AI-Native. Maintain Engineering Sovereignty."Three READMEs still lead with the old tagline, so both the npm package page and the GitHub landing page show messaging the website no longer uses.
What changed
One heading line in each of
README.md,src/README.md, andpkgs/npm/README.md:Nothing else. The CLI, the package name, the commands, and the install instructions are all unchanged.
Context
This is part of a wider product-naming update (the platform is being named Defang Deploy). That name is not in this PR — it is not announced yet, and this repo is public. This PR only removes messaging that is already retired.
The
defangCLI, the npm package, the Homebrew formula, and the MCP config key are all staying as they are.🤖 Generated with Claude Code