Python is an ideal language for certain types of infrastructure automation. Automating what a user does manually often involves walking through a series of stages. A user may wish to run all the stages in series, or perhaps only a subset, and depending on how things go, certain stages may need to be retried. Once the script finishes running, it'd be ideal if it could tell the user exactly what was run, for the sake of easing replicability. staged-script aims to ease the development such automation scripts. It's easy to get started with, but also provides significant power-user functionality for those who need it.