diff --git a/independent-projects/tools/base-codestarts/src/main/resources/codestarts/quarkus/buildtool/maven/base/pom.tpl.qute.xml b/independent-projects/tools/base-codestarts/src/main/resources/codestarts/quarkus/buildtool/maven/base/pom.tpl.qute.xml
index 511b172afc41b5..3d32afccb8efdd 100644
--- a/independent-projects/tools/base-codestarts/src/main/resources/codestarts/quarkus/buildtool/maven/base/pom.tpl.qute.xml
+++ b/independent-projects/tools/base-codestarts/src/main/resources/codestarts/quarkus/buildtool/maven/base/pom.tpl.qute.xml
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
                             <goal>build</goal>
                             <goal>generate-code</goal>
                             <goal>generate-code-tests</goal>
-                            {#if generate-native}
+                            {#if generate-native and quarkus.platform.version.compareVersionTo("3.12") >= 0}
                             <goal>native-image-agent</goal>
                             {/if}
                         </goals>
diff --git a/independent-projects/tools/codestarts/src/main/java/io/quarkus/devtools/codestarts/core/reader/QuteCodestartFileReader.java b/independent-projects/tools/codestarts/src/main/java/io/quarkus/devtools/codestarts/core/reader/QuteCodestartFileReader.java
index d26b1ec9774c9e..5365404e82aefe 100644
--- a/independent-projects/tools/codestarts/src/main/java/io/quarkus/devtools/codestarts/core/reader/QuteCodestartFileReader.java
+++ b/independent-projects/tools/codestarts/src/main/java/io/quarkus/devtools/codestarts/core/reader/QuteCodestartFileReader.java
@@ -6,23 +6,15 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.concurrent.CompletionStage;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;
 
 import io.quarkus.devtools.codestarts.CodestartException;
 import io.quarkus.devtools.codestarts.CodestartResource;
 import io.quarkus.devtools.codestarts.CodestartResource.Source;
-import io.quarkus.qute.CompletedStage;
-import io.quarkus.qute.Engine;
-import io.quarkus.qute.EvalContext;
-import io.quarkus.qute.Expression;
-import io.quarkus.qute.ResultMapper;
-import io.quarkus.qute.Results;
-import io.quarkus.qute.TemplateException;
-import io.quarkus.qute.TemplateLocator;
-import io.quarkus.qute.TemplateNode;
-import io.quarkus.qute.ValueResolver;
-import io.quarkus.qute.Variant;
+import io.quarkus.qute.*;
 
 final class QuteCodestartFileReader implements CodestartFileReader {
 
@@ -30,6 +22,7 @@ final class QuteCodestartFileReader implements CodestartFileReader {
     private static final String ENTRY_QUTE_FLAG = ".entry.qute";
     public static final String INCLUDE_QUTE_FLAG = ".include.qute";
     public static final String SKIP_TAG = "<SKIP>";
+    private static final Pattern VERSION_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("^((\\d+)\\.(\\d+)).*");
 
     @Override
     public boolean matches(String fileName) {
@@ -187,9 +180,37 @@ public CompletionStage<Object> resolve(EvalContext context) {
                             return CompletedStage.of(value.endsWith((String) e));
                         });
                     }
+
+                case "compareVersionTo":
+                    if (context.getParams().size() == 1) {
+                        return context.evaluate(context.getParams().get(0)).thenCompose(e -> {
+                            return CompletedStage.of(compareVersionTo(value, (String) e));
+                        });
+                    }
                 default:
                     return Results.notFound(context);
             }
         }
     }
+
+    static int compareVersionTo(String currentVersionString, String comparedVersionString) {
+        if (currentVersionString.contains("SNAPSHOT")) {
+            return 1;
+        }
+        final Runtime.Version currentVersion = Runtime.Version.parse(extractMajorMinor(currentVersionString));
+        final Runtime.Version comparedVersion = Runtime.Version.parse(extractMajorMinor(comparedVersionString));
+        return currentVersion.compareTo(comparedVersion);
+    }
+
+    static String extractMajorMinor(String version) {
+        if (version == null || version.isEmpty()) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Version string cannot be null or empty");
+        }
+        final Matcher matcher = VERSION_PATTERN.matcher(version);
+        if (!matcher.matches()) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid version: " + version);
+        }
+        return matcher.replaceAll("$1");
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/independent-projects/tools/codestarts/src/test/java/io/quarkus/devtools/codestarts/core/reader/QuteCodestartFileReaderTest.java b/independent-projects/tools/codestarts/src/test/java/io/quarkus/devtools/codestarts/core/reader/QuteCodestartFileReaderTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..b8a84d49ff19f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/independent-projects/tools/codestarts/src/test/java/io/quarkus/devtools/codestarts/core/reader/QuteCodestartFileReaderTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package io.quarkus.devtools.codestarts.core.reader;
+
+import static io.quarkus.devtools.codestarts.core.reader.QuteCodestartFileReader.compareVersionTo;
+import static io.quarkus.devtools.codestarts.core.reader.QuteCodestartFileReader.extractMajorMinor;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class QuteCodestartFileReaderTest {
+
+    @Test
+    void testExtractVersion() {
+        assertThat(extractMajorMinor("3.12.0.Final")).isEqualTo("3.12");
+        assertThat(extractMajorMinor("3.12")).isEqualTo("3.12");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testCompareVersion() {
+        assertThat(compareVersionTo("3.12.0.Final", "3.12")).isEqualTo(0);
+        assertThat(compareVersionTo("3.13.0", "3.12")).isGreaterThan(0);
+        assertThat(compareVersionTo("3.2.1", "3.12")).isLessThan(0);
+        assertThat(compareVersionTo("999-SNAPSHOT", "3.12")).isGreaterThan(0);
+    }
+}