- **Restore points for agent work**: Create named restore points before
major edits, review changes with a dry run, and safely revert project
content if needed.
- **Shared Slot authoring**: Agents can turn existing sections into
shared Slots and insert linked copies across pages, including valid
nested Slots.
- **DTCG and Figma token imports**: Import design tokens and CSS
variables through CLI, MCP, or direct paste, with aliases, modes,
composite values, and mappings supported.
- **Consistent token conflict handling**: Every paste workflow now
offers the same preserve, rename, or merge choices instead of silently
overwriting existing design tokens.
- **Draft-page previews**: Agents can generate and inspect previews of
draft pages without publishing them or exposing drafts in production
builds.
- **Safer MCP mutations**: Destructive operations require explicit
confirmation, invalid raw patches and invented record IDs are rejected,
and restore operations commit atomically.
- **More dependable agent contracts**: New tools have complete runtime
schemas, clearer validation errors, and consistent behavior across CLI,
MCP, Builder, and server APIs.
Improves CLI and MCP reliability across project synchronization, asset
editing, imports, audits, and clipboard workflows.
## Changes
- Keeps asset filename and description updates after session refresh.
- Prevents intermittent Immer patch errors during consecutive MCP
mutations.
- Prevents false edit conflicts caused by stale local session state.
- Preserves asset uploads without treating them as redundant metadata
updates.
- Exposes editable asset filenames consistently through MCP.
- Imports project assets correctly when copying projects between
environments.
- Supports refreshing partially available project snapshots.
- Keeps MCP operations working when optional project data is
unavailable.
- Produces clearer compatibility errors when the API and CLI versions
differ.
- Makes rendered audits more resilient when individual screenshots fail.
- Prevents rendered audits from hanging while starting browser captures.
- Handles denied clipboard permissions without uncaught browser errors.
- Improves copy and paste reliability for pages, components, styles, and
animations.
## Verification
- Asset uploader tests and typechecking pass.
- Focused asset workflow E2E passes.
- Complete E2E shard 1 passes.
- Realistic MCP subagent test confirms:
- Asset filename and description persist after refresh.
- Consecutive mutations work without manual refresh.
- No Immer patch error occurs.
- No false conflict occurs.
- Original asset values can be restored successfully.
- Fix publish sync for empty JSON data variables
- Retry transient asset downloads once with shared sync-client backoff
- Fix Builder paste handling for Webstudio transfer data
- Add transfer/data-envelope terminology and colocated runtime
data-format modules
- Rename page clipboard runtime operation to page transfer semantics
- Report malformed Webstudio/Webflow paste data through paste results
instead of inserting it as text
- Add browser-level E2E coverage for instance, page, folder, template,
generic plugin, malformed data, native input, and content-mode paste
flows
## Details
- Allows empty JSON data variables to sync/publish correctly.
- Adds asset download retry coverage and uses shared backoff logic.
- Introduces runtime `data-formats` modules for data envelopes, instance
transfer data, and page transfer data.
- Removes stale clipboard aliases and `validateTemplateStructure`.
- Keeps clipboard as a Builder UI transport concern while
runtime/protocol use transfer-data terminology.
- Changes paste plugins to return expressive success/error results so
callers can show toast errors and stop fallback insertion.
- Prevents malformed Webstudio transfer payloads from falling through to
text/HTML/markdown insertion.
- Handles malformed Webflow-owned paste data without throwing.
- Adds shared copy-paste fragment insertion helpers to reduce duplicated
breakpoint-warning/fragment-data logic.
This PR expands Webstudio MCP and CLI into a more complete agent
authoring interface. Agents can discover project capabilities, edit real
Webstudio content, use data/resources, verify visual output, and report
useful issues when workflows fail.
## MCP User Capabilities
- Create, update, duplicate, reorder, and delete pages.
- Create pages from templates and manage reusable page templates.
- Inspect project pages, instances, props, styles, assets, variables,
resources, and metadata.
- Insert Webstudio components and authored JSX fragments into pages.
- Edit text, props, styles, breakpoints, design tokens, and CSS
variables.
- Update page metadata, SEO fields, redirects, marketplace metadata, and
project settings.
- Create and use static data variables.
- Create and use dynamic resources fetched over HTTP.
- Use REST, GraphQL, and built-in system resources in authored pages.
- Bind data variables and resources to visible page content.
- Create resource-backed pages such as sitemap XML, structured SEO data,
and API-driven content sections.
- Preview current project state without requiring a publish step.
- Capture screenshots for visual verification.
- Verify responsive designs across desktop, tablet, and mobile
breakpoints.
- Use screenshot diff and OCR-style checks to inspect rendered output.
- Reset and refresh local MCP project state when needed.
- Discover available CLI/MCP commands from generated manuals.
- Use clearer examples for resources, data variables, JSX authoring,
previewing, and visual checks.
- Read marketplace product metadata without requiring a full project
snapshot.
- Get safer guidance when using low-level patch tools.
- Get a ready-to-copy Discord report template when MCP/CLI behavior is
confusing or broken.
## Description
This effectively is the beginning of copy/paste plugin system. Now
instance copy paste is a plugin that is fully encapsulated and we can
add more of them
## Steps for reproduction
1. copy/paste instances on the same page
2. copy/paste instances across pages
3. copy paste across projects
## Code Review
- [ ] hi @TrySound , I need you to do
- conceptual review (architecture, feature-correctness)
- detailed review (read every line)
- test it on preview
## Before requesting a review
- [ ] made a self-review
- [ ] added inline comments where things may be not obvious (the "why",
not "what")
## Before merging
- [ ] tested locally and on preview environment (preview dev login:
5de6)
- [ ] updated [test
cases](https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio-builder/blob/main/apps/builder/docs/test-cases.md)
document
- [ ] added tests
- [ ] if any new env variables are added, added them to `.env.example`
and the `builder/env-check.js` if mandatory
Oleg Isonen