Closes#5919
Ref #5920
## Outcome
Extend the existing Assets system resource with optional queries for
Markdown, JSON, and standard file metadata. Unconfigured Assets
resources retain the existing fetch-all behavior and activate none of
the content-query infrastructure.
Files are the authoring model. A standalone content engine converts an
immutable snapshot of only the files required by configured queries into
one bounded, deterministic runtime database. Builder preview, SSR, and
SSG use the same query semantics without requiring a database service
for a published site.
## Final architecture
```text
Markdown / JSON files
│
▼
ContentSource adapter
(FS or Webstudio Assets)
│ immutable snapshot
▼
ContentCompilationPlan
(union of configured query requirements)
│
▼
ContentCompiler
(parse, normalize, discover fields, enforce budget)
│
▼
ContentArtifact
(bounded, deterministic, immutable JSON)
│
▼
ContentDatabase
(filter, OR groups, sort, paginate, project, read content)
│
├── Builder preview
├── SSR runtime
└── SSG build only
```
The authoring/storage layer owns mutable files. The content engine
consumes immutable snapshots and produces immutable, disposable
artifacts.
Query authoring is a separate OpenAPI-driven path:
```text
Assets REST OpenAPI operation
+ standard request JSON Schema
+ dynamic field paths
│
▼
Generic OpenAPI adapter
│ resolved schemas, controls, paths, and transport mapping
▼
Generic query-builder core and React renderer
│ arbitrary provider-defined value
▼
Assets REST request adapter
│
▼
{ query: value }
```
The selected standard OpenAPI operation is the only source of query UI
semantics. Request parameters and JSON Schema describe the editable
data; the generic renderer derives controls and owns layout.
### Activation and compilation
- The compiler does not index every asset. It combines all reachable
configured Assets-resource queries into one `ContentCompilationPlan`.
- Static constraints such as folder, path, and file type select
candidate files. Dynamic values such as a route-bound slug cannot reduce
the build-time candidate set.
- The plan contains the union of fields used by filtering, sorting,
routing, projection, excerpts, and requested full content.
- Documents shared by multiple resources are stored once in one
deployment-wide runtime database.
- Markdown/frontmatter, JSON properties, excerpts, and full bodies are
prepared only when required.
- No configured content query means no parsing, artifact, or shipped
runtime dependency. Fresh generated apps need no content-runtime
cleanup; incremental generation removes stale integration if a
previously configured query is deleted.
### Runtime database limit
- `CONTENT_DATABASE_MAX_BYTES` limits the complete serialized runtime
database, not source files, images, or unrelated assets.
- The default is `500 * 1024` bytes and is presented as 500 KiB.
- Counted data includes indexed metadata, frontmatter/JSON properties,
excerpts, the field catalog, serialization overhead, and full Markdown
bodies only when requested.
- Prepublish validation builds and serializes the exact database that
will be attached to the immutable build, so it knows the unbounded size,
bounded size, included documents, omitted documents, and affected
resources.
- Overflow never stores partial documents. Candidates are ordered by
`createdAt` descending, canonical path ascending, and stable document ID
ascending. Missing dates follow dated documents. A document that does
not fit is skipped while smaller later documents are still considered.
- Exceeding the limit warns but does not block publishing.
- Builder preview can report exact bounded versus unbounded results when
dynamic expressions have concrete preview values. Prepublish warnings
remain conservative for future route values.
### Snapshot consistency
The source contract guarantees a consistent compilation, while adapters
provide the mechanism:
- Webstudio Assets captures asset metadata and immutable content
references.
- Filesystem sources capture file identity and verify files did not
change before accepting the artifact.
- A changed source retries once, then fails clearly instead of producing
a mixed-revision database.
- This requires no universal snapshot service, source-tree copy, or new
versioned-asset infrastructure.
### Package ownership
- `@webstudio-is/content-engine`: runtime artifact schema, query
execution, field catalog, compact runtime statistics.
- `@webstudio-is/content-engine/compiler`: source snapshots, compilation
plans, Markdown/JSON parsing, deterministic compilation, byte
accounting, and compiler diagnostics. This entry exists to keep
Remark/YAML/future MDX dependencies out of runtime bundles.
- `@webstudio-is/query-builder`: resolves standard OpenAPI operation
schemas into an internal provider-neutral editor model, validation,
mutations, and source serialization. It owns no Assets,
provider-authored UI contract, or fixed REST-query semantics.
- `@webstudio-is/query-builder/react`: container-neutral schema renderer
whose layout is renderer policy. It remains separate from the content
engine.
- SDK: Webstudio Assets/Resource domain models and mapping Webstudio
expressions into generic content requirements.
- Protocol: external Assets REST/OpenAPI transport contracts.
- Asset uploader/repository: asset and folder mutations, generic
metadata, immutable byte references, and storage access. Its hosted
adapter supplies Webstudio Assets snapshots and parsed-metadata cache
persistence to the content engine; parsing, artifact creation, and query
semantics remain engine-owned.
- Builder and generated-app integrations decide when to compile, cache,
embed, load, or discard a database.
### Runtime lifecycle
- Builder caches immutable `ContentDatabase` instances by source
revision plus compilation-plan hash and coalesces concurrent
compilation. Matching operations reuse the same instance; field
discovery uses a dedicated minimal all-properties plan that excludes
excerpts and bodies.
- SSR attaches the validated bounded database to the build and includes
the small runtime only when required.
- SSG uses the database only while generating pages and omits it and the
runtime from final output unless a future runtime-query feature requires
them.
- Local development compiles from the filesystem and uses identical
query semantics.
- Published pages query their local artifact; they do not call Builder
REST endpoints.
- Published artifacts need no external index store, invalidation,
garbage collection, SaaS content proxy, new bucket, or new environment
variable.
## Implemented foundation
These existing parts remain useful and should be moved behind the final
ownership boundaries rather than reimplemented.
- [x] Upgrade the existing Assets system resource in place and preserve
unconfigured fetch-all behavior.
- [x] Implement typed filtering, nested boolean groups, deterministic
sorting, pagination, projections, dynamic values, and content hydration.
- [x] Add Markdown frontmatter, excerpt, JSON-property, and
field-catalog extraction.
- [x] Add reusable query-control implementations and a separately
imported React UI as a foundation for the final OpenAPI-driven contract.
- [x] Add Assets query authoring and dynamic field discovery as existing
behavior to migrate into the Assets OpenAPI operation.
- [x] Add synchronized visual and editable expression authoring.
- [x] Unify Assets REST operations under `/rest/assets/*`.
- [x] Define authenticated collection, item, content, upload, folder,
query, field-catalog, and OpenAPI operations.
- [x] Support Builder cookie authentication and public API token
authentication.
- [x] Add Builder preview, MCP/CLI operations, SSR execution, SSG path
generation, and conditional activation.
- [x] Add revision-keyed parsed metadata persistence for the hosted
Builder.
- [x] Add focused query, API, authorization, Builder, CLI, SSR, SSG,
migration, and fixture coverage.
## Remaining implementation plan
### 1. Establish the content engine
- [x] Rename the generic `@webstudio-is/asset-resource` implementation
to `@webstudio-is/content-engine`.
- [x] Move existing behavior instead of creating a parallel
implementation.
- [x] Keep the primary entry runtime-only and add only the compiler
entry needed for bundle separation.
- [x] Remove the old package after all consumers migrate.
- [x] Ensure the engine has no Builder, SDK, asset-uploader, PostgreSQL,
R2, or deployment-target dependency.
### 2. Define source snapshots and compilation plans
- [x] Introduce `ContentSource.openSnapshot()` and a revision-bearing
`ContentSourceSnapshot`.
- [x] Include canonical path, stable document ID, content type,
immutable content reference, size, and optional `createdAt`.
- [x] Implement Webstudio Assets and filesystem snapshot guarantees
using their adapter-specific mechanisms.
- [x] Introduce `ContentCompilationPlan` for the union of reachable
configured resource requirements.
- [x] Separate statically selectable candidates from dynamic runtime
predicates.
- [x] Add mutation-during-compilation tests for replacement, deletion,
folder movement, and filesystem changes.
### 3. Separate storage from content processing
- [x] Keep upload, replacement, folders, byte storage, revisions, and
generic metadata in the Assets repository/uploader.
- [x] Move parsing, excerpts, field discovery, query execution, and
artifact creation into the content engine.
- [x] Remove content-index coordination from asset mutation business
logic.
- [x] Preserve original source `createdAt` across content replacement
and expose it as optional queryable metadata.
- [x] Keep hosted parsed-document persistence behind the content
compiler's optional cache interface.
### 4. Build deterministic compilation
- [x] Move the existing Markdown, frontmatter, JSON, canonicalization,
hashing, document-building, and tests into the compiler.
- [x] Keep frontmatter behind a dedicated module and continue using the
existing Remark/Micromark pipeline.
- [x] Parse only candidate files and only the tiers required by the
compilation plan.
- [x] Deduplicate documents and fields required by multiple resources.
- [x] Define a versioned, deterministic `ContentArtifact` with integrity
information.
- [x] Keep verbose parse and omission diagnostics outside the runtime
artifact.
- [x] Reject incompatible artifact versions cleanly.
### 5. Enforce the deployment-wide database budget
- [x] Replace the old asset-index limit with
`CONTENT_DATABASE_MAX_BYTES`, defaulting to 500 KiB.
- [x] Have applications read configuration and pass the byte limit into
the compiler.
- [x] Measure the exact serialized database, including selected bodies
and overhead.
- [x] Implement deterministic skip-and-continue packing of complete
documents.
- [x] Return compiler diagnostics with unbounded/bounded bytes,
included/omitted counts, omitted identities, largest contributors, and
affected resources.
- [x] Expose only compact artifact statistics at runtime through
`ContentDatabase.getStats()`.
- [x] Add exact boundary, deterministic ordering, deduplication, and
oversized-document tests.
### 6. Finalize the runtime database
- [x] Define `ContentDatabase` over an immutable artifact.
- [x] Preserve filtering, nested AND/OR groups, sorting, offset/limit,
projection, field references, and content retrieval.
- [x] Expose `getFieldCatalog()` and compact `getStats()`.
- [x] Keep Markdown/YAML/compiler dependencies out of the runtime entry.
- [x] Add execution guards and maximum-size runtime benchmarks.
### 7. Make query authoring OpenAPI-driven
The selected standard OpenAPI operation is the complete query-authoring
contract. The query builder resolves parameters and request-body JSON
Schema, derives its internal editor model, and applies renderer-owned
layout policy. It must not embed or fetch a second capabilities/UI
language through `x-webstudio-query` or another side channel.
- [x] Remove `x-webstudio-query` and all vendor query-definition
metadata from the Assets OpenAPI operation.
- [x] Resolve local OpenAPI references and derive the editable request
value, defaults, validation, labels, choices, arrays, objects, and
unions solely from standard operation parameters and request-body JSON
Schema.
- [x] Represent dynamic Assets field paths with standard JSON Schema
vocabulary in the `queryAssets` request schema.
- [x] Keep the normalized editor representation internal to
query-builder; do not expose another provider-authored capabilities
contract.
- [x] Remove provider-controlled layout metadata such as `group`; make
compact scalar packing and all other layout renderer policy.
- [x] Keep Webstudio expression binding as a consumer/editor concern
layered over schema values, not part of the OpenAPI contract.
- [x] Preserve the existing Assets filter, sort, output selection,
full-content/range selection, limit/offset, editable source, and
configured-field behavior.
- [x] Keep the Assets resource adapter responsible for serializing the
edited query into its request body.
- [x] Remove the obsolete Assets query-capabilities endpoint, URL, and
UI-side capability parsing.
- [x] Add a non-Assets OpenAPI proof with differently named parameters
and no vendor metadata.
- [x] Verify the generic packages contain no Assets imports, fixed
Assets property contract, or provider-authored layout model.
- [x] Update focused core, React, SDK, protocol/OpenAPI, Builder, and
source round-trip tests.
### 8. Manage ContentDatabase lifecycle in Builder
- [x] Cache databases by source revision plus normalized
compilation-plan hash.
- [x] Coalesce concurrent compilation requests.
- [x] Reuse cached database instances across field discovery,
autocomplete, query preview, and response preview when their normalized
compilation plans match.
- [x] Replace it when source revision or query requirements change.
- [x] Preserve the optional revision-keyed hosted parsed-document cache
without making it a source of truth.
- [x] Show exact preview warnings when concrete values reveal missing
bounded results.
### 9. Materialize and verify immutable builds
- [x] Compile and serialize the exact deployment-wide database during
prepublish validation.
- [x] Attach that validated bounded database to the immutable build
without rebuilding it from later asset state.
- [x] Show non-blocking prepublish warnings with database bytes,
omissions, and potentially affected resources.
- [x] Avoid claiming exact future route matches when dynamic values are
unknown.
- [x] Include the database/runtime only when a reachable configured
query requires them.
- [x] Ensure detail resources requesting Markdown content include all
statically eligible bodies needed by dynamic routes.
### 10. Integrate all targets
- [x] SSR: load the build's bounded database and conditionally include
the small runtime.
- [x] SSG: query the same database during generation, then omit
database/runtime output when no runtime query is needed.
- [x] Local/CLI: compile from the filesystem source with the same
semantics.
- [x] Preserve overview pagination, alternative route fields,
draft-as-user-data behavior, and full article rendering.
- [x] Verify ordinary Assets and fresh query-free sites perform no
parser, artifact, content-runtime dependency install, or cleanup work.
### 11. Correct API and package ownership
- [x] Move external Assets REST/OpenAPI contracts to
`@webstudio-is/protocol`.
- [x] Keep Webstudio domain models and Assets system-resource
configuration in the SDK.
- [x] Keep both cookie and token authentication behavior on the unified
Assets REST surface.
- [x] Remove pass-through route wrappers/reexports that add no transport
behavior.
- [x] Keep published runtime queries local to the artifact rather than
routing them through Builder REST.
### 12. Remove superseded deployment infrastructure
- [x] Remove external deployment-index upload, fetch, invalidation,
cleanup, and garbage-collection code.
- [x] Remove the SaaS asset-origin adapter requirement; close
webstudio-is/webstudio-saas#652 as superseded because it has no
independent purpose.
- [x] Remove index-bucket compatibility configuration and avoid adding
Infisical variables.
- [x] Remove obsolete external-index paths, package dependencies,
routes, scripts, and tests.
- [x] Consolidate unreleased intermediate migrations where safe and
retain only schema required by the final hosted cache/API design.
### 13. Verification and release readiness
- [x] Move and preserve existing tests while changing ownership; add new
tests only for changed contracts and behavior.
- [x] Run content-engine compiler/runtime tests, query-builder tests,
SDK/protocol/API tests, Builder tests, CLI tests, and affected
typechecks.
- [x] Run formatting, generated-file idempotence, fixtures, clean
Supabase-compatible migrations, E2E shards, and complete agent
evaluations.
- [x] Verify SSR and SSG conditional inclusion and query-free generated
package manifests.
- [x] Run the five-article MCP blog workflow: authoring, field
discovery, overview, dynamic detail routes, full Markdown rendering,
publishing, and published-site verification.
- [x] Run a maximum-budget database test and a
mutation-during-compilation test.
- [x] Perform a final architecture, security, API compatibility,
migration, bundle, correctness, and DRY review.
- [x] Reconcile every checkbox and replace the verification section with
results from the final architecture before release.
## Future MDX work
MDX is intentionally separate from this release.
- The compiler contract should allow a future build-only MDX parser.
- MDX compilation must not enter the published runtime.
- Embedded JSX must use an explicit compiled representation rather than
runtime source evaluation.
- Webstudio components, tokens, styles, and component allowlists remain
Webstudio integration concerns.
- The future MDX work should reuse `ContentArtifact` and
`ContentDatabase` where practical.
## Superseded design
The following earlier design choices are no longer the target
architecture:
- GROQ or GraphQL as the Assets query language.
- One external or long-lived index object per resource/query.
- A deployment index fetched by the Worker from SaaS/CDN infrastructure.
- Lazy production reads of source Markdown bodies.
- A separate index bucket, asset origin, invalidation service, or
garbage collector.
- A 4 MiB published index limit.
- Rebuilding an old build's database from the current mutable asset set.
- Bundling query infrastructure into projects without a configured
content query.
## Verification baseline
The embedded runtime-database architecture previously passed the checks
below. The OpenAPI-driven query-authoring change additionally passed:
- Query-builder core: 4 files / 19 tests.
- Query-builder React: 1 file / 7 tests.
- SDK Assets source/config: 1 file / 7 tests.
- Protocol Assets OpenAPI: 1 file / 9 tests, including independent
OpenAPI validation.
- Builder Assets OpenAPI description: 1 file / 5 tests.
- Query-builder, React, SDK, protocol, and Builder typechecks.
- Package-boundary validation and formatting of every affected file.
Local verification baseline:
- Content engine: 15 files / 104 tests.
- Asset uploader: 24 files / 175 tests.
- Builder: 204 files / 2,423 tests.
- CLI: 54 files / 866 tests.
- Complete workspace typecheck, formatting, lint, package boundaries,
generated fixtures, and fixture builds.
- The complete migration history applied successfully to a fresh
Supabase-compatible database, including every migration after the
consolidated Assets migration.
- Builder production build and full local E2E suite passed.
- Complete agent evaluations passed: authenticated page (170,859 ms),
design input (207,101 ms), and font assets (67,050 ms).
- Final review additionally verified correct REST edit/view/build
permits, cookie and public-token read paths, immutable snapshot retries,
exact database budgeting, query-free dependency omission, and SSR/SSG
conditional runtime inclusion.
Final staging verification passed against the embedded runtime-database
architecture: MCP uploaded and updated five Markdown articles,
discovered dynamic frontmatter fields, previewed a five-item sorted
overview and one full-body slug query, updated both Assets resources,
found zero binding issues, rendered `/blog` and `/blog/dynamic-routes`
at HTTP 200, published build version 266, and verified both published
routes at HTTP 200 with the expected article metadata and Markdown body.
The workflow also found and fixed offset-form asset timestamps failing
canonical datetime validation and made MCP `preview.start({ port: 0 })`
correctly select an available local port.
## Release constraints
- No new SaaS content service, bucket, or environment variable.
- No published-site database dependency.
- No parser/compiler dependency in query-free sites or runtime-only
bundles.
- The validated content database is immutable build output.
- Publishing warnings do not block deployment.
- The selected standard OpenAPI operation and its request JSON Schema
are the only source of query UI semantics.
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## User impact
MCP-managed font assets now keep their identity, metadata, and generated
CSS behavior predictable across upload, editing, synchronization, and
rendering.
## Changes
- Preserve explicit font metadata overrides while validating supported
fields and rejecting unsupported metadata instead of silently dropping
it.
- Expose font metadata through `update-asset`, with partial updates
merged into the existing metadata and validated before the mutation is
committed.
- Prefer the typographic family name when reading font files, so
Fontsource and Google font files resolve to the same logical family
where the file provides that information.
- Deduplicate generated font sources by URL and format, choose a
deterministic source when legacy assets collide, and derive the CSS
format hint from the filename when historical metadata is stale.
- Add MCP and CLI examples explaining font metadata upload and
correction.
- Add regression coverage for metadata persistence, invalid overrides,
family-name extraction, duplicate source handling, stale format
metadata, and generated runtime contracts.
## Verification
- `pnpm checks`
- 46 workspace packages tested, including 2,355 Builder tests, 809 CLI
tests, 2,019 project-build tests, and 97 asset-uploader tests.
- All workspace typechecks, Oxlint, package-boundary checks, generated
API/docs checks, and fixture link/sync/build checks passed.
## Summary
This improves how coding agents discover, author, verify, and audit
Webstudio projects through the CLI and MCP. The work focuses on making
agents more reliable with less context, while keeping edits semantic and
Builder-editable.
## What changes for users
- Agents can verify dynamic bindings after authoring and receive
actionable diagnostics when expressions, resources, scopes, or component
props do not line up.
- Agents can create complete resource-backed runtime UI through a
semantic operation instead of coordinating fragile low-level edits.
- MCP discovery and command output are compact by default, with
pagination and focused verbose detail when an agent needs more context.
- Asset, style, token, font, page, and component inspection provides
stronger usage context so agents can preserve the existing design
system.
- Rendered audits provide better evidence for responsive behavior,
geometry, contrast, generated-build size, and large-project runs.
- Cross-project MCP workflows can run from a manifest with explicit
mutation approval, isolated failures, resumable progress, and persistent
checkpoints.
- Project-specific agent onboarding is clearer and does not add
telemetry.
- Packaged CLI releases gain stronger smoke verification for install,
MCP startup, authoring, preview, screenshots, and audits.
## Reliability and architecture
- Runtime operation output schemas are generated from the runtime
registry and remain client-compatible.
- Project-build exports are consolidated around architectural boundaries
instead of feature-by-feature convenience entry points.
- HTTP, preview, screenshot, and project-session paths are hardened for
longer autonomous workflows.
- Craft compatibility work is read-only and provenance-aware; it does
not silently opt ordinary projects into Craft behavior.
- A minimal-context evaluation harness exercises key workflows with a
weaker model and stores bounded, privacy-safe evidence.
## Validation
- Rebased on the latest `origin/main`.
- `pnpm lint`
- Repository-wide `oxfmt --check`
- CLI typecheck and full test suite: 773 tests passed.
- Project-build typecheck and full test suite: 1,866 tests passed.
- Protocol typecheck and full test suite: 83 tests passed.
- HTTP client tests: 23 passed.
- CSS data tests: 3,620 passed, 1 skipped.
- Focused Builder tests: 67 passed.
- Package-boundary, generated API, and generated documentation checks
passed.
- Minimal-context agent evaluations passed for authenticated
resource-backed UI and design-system-aware responsive authoring.
This update helps AI agents understand, audit, and visually verify
Webstudio projects more reliably. It also adds clearer guidance for
expressions, Collections, screenshots, and responsive rendered audits.
### Audit complete projects
- Run one `audit` command across accessibility, SEO, security, assets,
styles, and performance.
- Audit the whole project or focus on a specific page, scope, or
severity.
- Receive stable findings with locations, explanations, and recommended
fixes.
- Continue large result sets through pagination without repeating
general guidance.
### Audit the rendered website
- Build and inspect the generated website, rather than relying only on
stored project data.
- Check every static page at representative mobile, tablet, and desktop
widths.
- Use one suitable viewport inside each configured breakpoint range.
- Reuse the same browser and resize pages between captures for
substantially faster audits.
- Process multiple pages concurrently while keeping resource use
bounded.
- Supply concrete examples for dynamic routes such as blog posts.
- Review and confirm unusually large screenshot plans before they run.
### Find visual and performance problems
Rendered audits can detect:
- Horizontal page overflow.
- Broken images.
- Images loaded eagerly below the fold.
- Images that are much larger than their rendered size.
- Render-blocking resources.
- Legacy font formats.
- Pages that fail to load or redirect somewhere unexpected.
- Pages captured before their layout becomes stable.
Detailed screenshots, measurements, failures, and timing evidence are
saved locally for further inspection.
### Capture generated pages directly
- Capture a project route with `webstudio screenshot --path /route`.
- Automatically generate and start a temporary production-style preview.
- Stop the temporary preview after the screenshot is captured.
- Return navigation, responsive layout, and page-size evidence with JSON
output.
- Allow external image domains needed by the generated preview.
### Reuse generated previews
- Cache generated preview builds when the project has not changed.
- Reuse preview dependencies across regenerations.
- Keep preview dependencies isolated from the user’s project
dependencies.
- Surface preview build and startup failures with useful diagnostic
output.
- Include local project assets in generated previews.
### Author Collections correctly
- Explain when Collection is required for arrays and objects.
- Guide agents to bind the complete iterable instead of one item or the
response wrapper.
- Explain how Collection repeats its children for every entry.
- Explain current-item and current-key scope.
- Preserve Webstudio’s generated Collection parameters.
- Guide agents to use stable values for repeated interactive components.
### Write expressions with fewer mistakes
- Add a dedicated `webstudio://project/expressions` reference.
- Document expression scope, supported syntax, and supported methods.
- Explain how resources, variables, Collections, actions, and `system`
values are accessed.
- Distinguish fixed values from runtime expressions.
- Provide valid examples for text, props, resource URLs, headers, query
parameters, and bodies.
- Warn agents that valid syntax does not guarantee that runtime data has
the expected shape.
### Improve agent discovery
- Make Collection and expression workflows discoverable through
`meta.guide`.
- Return Collection-specific instructions through `components.get`.
- Point relevant command schemas to the expression reference.
- Keep detailed guidance available without placing it in every tool
response.
### Improve audit reliability
- Report which rendered captures passed, found issues, failed, or were
skipped.
- Distinguish planning, preview, capture, and cleanup failures.
- Include actionable retry instructions with rendered failures.
- Preserve completed evidence when part of an audit fails.
- Detect stale or conflicting preview servers more clearly.
- Support cancellation and bounded capture timeouts.
### Improve packaged CLI verification
- Add a release-shaped CLI smoke test.
- Install the packed CLI in an isolated temporary project.
- Fail on peer-dependency warning floods.
- Verify preview, screenshots, MCP calls, rendered audits, and generated
assets.
- Confirm that generic React Router previews do not include Docker-only
image dependencies.
- Keep CLI and MCP stdout machine-readable while progress remains on
stderr.
## User Impact
Agents can now audit a real rendered Webstudio site, inspect responsive
behavior, find concrete visual and performance problems, and provide
evidence for their conclusions. They also receive much clearer
instructions when turning API data into repeated content or writing
dynamic expressions.
## Summary
This update adds new MCP and CLI capabilities for project auditing,
structured data, project-specific agent instructions, focused project
search, safer bulk editing, image descriptions, font discovery, visual
verification, and external registry inspection.
## New Capabilities
### Audit projects
- Run a single `audit` command across accessibility, SEO, security,
assets, styles, and performance.
- Limit an audit to selected scopes, pages, or severity levels.
- Receive stable findings with locations and suggested fixes.
- Run rendered audits across desktop, mobile, and Builder breakpoint
widths.
- Detect horizontal overflow, broken images, oversized images, eager
below-fold images, render-blocking resources, and legacy font formats.
- Identify unused assets, tokens, CSS variables, local styles, and
breakpoints.
- Identify duplicate token declarations.
- Detect accessibility issues involving names, labels, headings,
landmarks, IDs, keyboard focus, ARIA, iframes, and autoplaying media.
- Detect SEO issues involving titles, descriptions, language, social
images, and structured data.
- Detect unsafe new-tab links and write resources exposed during page
rendering.
### Search an entire project
- Search project text, labels, props, resources, assets, and styles
through `search-project`.
- Find relevant records without downloading and reparsing the full
project snapshot.
- Scope searches to the relevant project-data areas.
### Add validated JSON-LD
- Add structured data with a dedicated JSON-LD component.
- Place JSON-LD inside the page Head Slot.
- Edit JSON in a purpose-built code editor.
- Prevent structurally invalid JSON-LD from being saved.
- Validate Schema.org types, properties, and values.
- Find invalid, missing, unknown, deprecated, or incompatible structured
data through the SEO audit.
- Let agents discover the correct JSON-LD workflow without using page
custom metadata or a generic HTML embed.
### Configure project-specific agent instructions
- Add AI-agent instructions from the new **Agents** section in Project
Settings.
- Synchronize those instructions into a managed root `AGENTS.md`.
- Update or remove the managed file automatically during project sync.
- Protect existing user-owned `AGENTS.md` files from being overwritten.
- Share the instructions with authenticated CLI and MCP agents.
- Keep agent instructions out of publicly readable production bundles.
### Generate and manage image descriptions
- Audit image assets for missing descriptions.
- Let a vision-capable agent inspect each image in its rendered context.
- Save generated descriptions to multiple image assets in one operation.
- Mark images as intentionally decorative.
- Reuse the saved asset description wherever the image is used.
- Re-run the audit to verify that missing-description findings are
resolved.
### Perform bounded bulk replacements
- Replace matching literal text across selected pages with
`replace-text`.
- Replace matching fixed prop text with `replace-prop-text`.
- Replace matching resource names or URLs with `replace-resource-text`.
- Restrict replacements by page, instance, prop, resource, field, match
mode, and maximum change count.
- Leave dynamic expressions unchanged.
### Inspect element ancestry
- Return an element’s direct parent in instance listings.
- Request the complete ancestor chain when inspecting an element.
- Understand tree placement without rebuilding the instance hierarchy
from raw project data.
### Discover available fonts
- List uploaded font families through `list-fonts`.
- Discover available system font stacks.
- Inspect font family, style, weight, format, and associated asset
information before applying typography.
### Inspect external component registries
- Inspect a local or remote shadcn-style registry item.
- Read its description, files, dependencies, targets, and documentation.
- Receive an explicit Webstudio compatibility report.
- Inspect registry metadata without installing or executing external
code.
### Capture generated project routes directly
- Run `webstudio screenshot --path /route` against the configured
project.
- Generate a temporary production-style preview automatically.
- Capture the requested route.
- Stop the temporary preview after capture.
- Avoid manually building and starting a preview for a single
screenshot.
### Assert visual changes
- Add expected text to screenshot comparisons.
- Set maximum pixel mismatch limits.
- Set minimum or maximum changed-region counts.
- Assert whether overall brightness or a color channel moved in the
expected direction.
- Use these assertions as pass/fail evidence for visual changes.
### Require compatible CLI versions
- Send the project-bundle contract version with CLI synchronization
requests.
- Stop incompatible CLI versions before they receive incomplete project
data.
- Tell users exactly how to update the CLI or run the latest version
once.
- Prevent older clients from silently dropping project settings.
## Upgrade Note
This branch introduces a new synchronized project-bundle contract. Older
CLI versions must update before synchronizing against the new API.
```sh
npm install -g webstudio@latest
```
Or run the latest version once:
```sh
npx webstudio@latest <command>
```
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
## prettier -> oxfmt (0.58.0)
- .oxfmtrc.json generated with `oxfmt --migrate=prettier`: trailingComma
es5, printWidth 80 (oxfmt defaults to 100), sortPackageJson disabled,
.prettierignore patterns folded in (file deleted).
- ignorePatterns additionally exclude yml/yaml/toml/jsonc and
packages/cli/templates/** so oxfmt covers exactly the file set prettier
used to format (ts,tsx,js,json,css,md) and never touches user-facing
scaffolding artifacts.
- root `format` script, nano-staged pre-commit hook and the CI check
(`pnpm oxfmt --check`, replacing `prettier --cache --check` and its
actions/cache step — oxfmt checks the whole repo in ~0.7s) now run
oxfmt.
- every generator script that ran `prettier --write` on __generated__
output now runs `oxfmt` (css-data, icons, html-data, postgrest, sdk,
sdk-components-*, apps/builder tailwind preflight).
- the four scripts that used prettier's JS `format()` API write raw
source instead and their package.json scripts pipe the generated file
through the oxfmt CLI: project-build generate-docs +
generate-runtime-operation-contracts, cli generate-docs, apps/builder
generate-server-only-api-metadata. oxfmt rejects paths containing "..",
so cross-package generated files are formatted via a subshell cd into
the owning package.
- one-time reformat: oxfmt's canonical output differs from prettier on 8
repo source files (binary-operator continuation indent, import() call
wrapping, sub-pixel spacing of empty for-clauses); oxfmt honors existing
`// prettier-ignore` comments so intentional layouts are kept.
- prettier remains ONLY as a cli devDependency for the
prettier/standalone HTML normalizer inside html-to-jsx.test.ts, and
inside fixtures/ + packages/cli/templates/ (ships to scaffolded user
projects; out of scope here).
- editor config switched from esbenp.prettier-vscode to oxc.oxc-vscode
(devcontainer extension list, .vscode editor.defaultFormatter).
## oxlint 1.56 -> 1.73
- oxlint 1.73 rules-of-hooks special-cases hooks NAMED useEffectEvent:
their results may only be called from effects. Our
app/shared/hook-utils/effect-event.ts is a stable-callback helper
(useEvent pattern), intentionally called from event handlers and passed
as props. The rule is disabled via .oxlintrc.json overrides for the five
files doing this (product code untouched); note those files lose
hook-order linting entirely until the rule becomes configurable.
## TypeScript 5.8.2 -> 7.0.2 (native compiler)
- `tsc` is now the Go-based native binary; all `tsgo` script usages
(workspace packages and fixtures) renamed back to `tsc` and
@typescript/native-preview removed (the package is being phased out).
- fixes for TS7 changed defaults and stricter checks:
- `types` now defaults to [] -> base tsconfig sets "types": ["node"]
(restores the implicit-@types/node behavior of TS5).
- `rootDir` now defaults to ./ -> every tsconfig.dts.json sets
"rootDir": "./src" (TS5011 otherwise).
- import assertions removed -> cli/src/cli.ts uses `with { type: "json"
}` (TS2880).
- stricter isolatedDeclarations inference -> explicit annotations in
css-data bin/property-filter.ts (TS9010) and image image-dev.stories.tsx
(TS9013).
- declaration serialization limit -> project-build builder-runtime.ts
runtimeOperationContracts gets an explicit type (TS7056); the annotation
preserves the narrow RuntimeOperationId union.
- TS7 ships no stable programmatic API:
- react-sdk (component-generator tests drive the compiler API) aliases
its typescript devDependency to @typescript/typescript6@^6.0.2; its bin
is `tsc6`, so the package's typecheck still runs native TS7 tsc from the
workspace root.
- generate-arg-types keeps typescript 5.8.2 for react-docgen-typescript.
- fixtures/ and packages/cli/templates/ keep typescript 5.8.2
(user-facing); fixture scripts still work because plain `tsc` resolves
to their local dependency.
## vite -> rolldown-vite 7.3.1 (oxc bundler)
- global pnpm override `"vite": "npm:rolldown-vite@^7.3.1"`: the builder
app (remix v2 vite plugin works unmodified), every package vite build
and the storybook build now bundle on rolldown/oxc.
- vitest is scoped BACK to vanilla vite via `vitest>vite`,
`vite-node>vite` and `@vitest/mocker>vite` overrides because vitest
3.1's runner does not understand rolldown's SSR transform
(__vite_ssr_exportName__ ReferenceError in every suite).
- those overrides pin vite EXACTLY to 6.3.4: letting ^6.3.4 float to
6.4.3 breaks cli prebuild tests (dynamic import of a generated
app/routes/$.tsx fails to resolve under 6.4.3's loader).
## unrelated cleanup requested during review
- apps/builder commands.ts imports duplicate-tokens-group statically
instead of via dynamic import. The circular dependency the dynamic
import guarded against only exists through the command-panel barrel
(command-panel.tsx > groups/index.ts > commands-group.tsx >
commands.ts); importing the group module directly is cycle-free
(verified with madge), matching the neighboring wrap-group and
convert-group imports.
## verification
- pnpm lint, oxfmt --check: clean.
- pnpm -r typecheck (TS7 native) and pnpm dts: clean.
- pnpm -r test: all suites pass (builder 2093 tests, cli 630, react-sdk
45, project-build 11, ...).
- builder app build, full workspace build, cli build and storybook build
all succeed on rolldown-vite.
## Description
1. What is this PR about (link the issue and add a short description)
## Steps for reproduction
1. click button
2. expect xyz
## Code Review
- [ ] hi @kof, 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:
0000)
- [ ] updated [test
cases](https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/blob/main/apps/builder/docs/test-cases.md)
document
- [ ] added tests
- [ ] if any new env variables are added, added them to `.env` file
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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.
## Summary
- Add CLI project import support from synced `.webstudio/data.json` into
another project via a destination share link.
- Move project bundle import/export contract into
`@webstudio-is/protocol`, including bundle versioning, staged upload
constants, schema validation, and fixture coverage.
- Upload project bundle data through staged TUS upload before calling
the import RPC to avoid request body limits.
- Upload referenced assets as binary files through the existing asset
upload route before importing asset rows.
- Add `--skip-assets` and `--ignore-version-check` import options.
- Add retry handling for transient missing imported asset files by
re-uploading only the reported missing assets.
- Share missing-asset import error formatting/parsing through protocol
to avoid duplicated string contracts.
- Preserve browser asset upload behavior while adding API upload
support.
- Normalize schema naming across the branch to lower-case names without
`Schema` suffix.
Closes https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/issues/3991
Adds HTTP Basic Authentication support for published pages and
project-level `.wsauth` rules.
This introduces a new `@webstudio-is/wsauth` package that owns the
generic authentication format logic: parsing, validation, serialization,
route matching, resource generation, and request authentication. The
current supported method is `basic`, with the package structured so
additional auth methods can be added later.
Builder changes include:
- Page Settings now has an `Authentication` section for per-page Basic
Auth credentials.
- Project Settings now has an `Authentication` section for editing
`.wsauth` route rules.
- Page Settings was split into section-specific files with focused
tests.
- Auth UI shows Pro badges/info tooltips but remains editable.
- Publishing to custom domains is blocked on plans without `allowAuth`
when either page auth or project auth is configured.
- ProBadge now renders as a real pricing link and uses improved text
alignment.
Build/publish changes include:
- CLI prebuild generates and merges `.wsauth` entries.
- Published app templates enforce auth for HTML/XML routes.
- Generated auth resources are shared between build output and runtime.
## Description
1. What is this PR about (link the issue and add a short description)
## Steps for reproduction
1. click button
2. expect xyz
## Code Review
- [ ] hi @kof, 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:
0000)
- [ ] updated [test
cases](https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/blob/main/apps/builder/docs/test-cases.md)
document
- [ ] added tests
- [ ] if any new env variables are added, added them to `.env` file
## Description
- [x] new file types support
- [x] categories filter
- [x] sorting filter
- [x] asset resource for access from custom code
## Steps for reproduction
1. click button
3. expect xyz
## Code Review
- [ ] hi @kof, 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:
0000)
- [ ] updated [test
cases](https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/blob/main/apps/builder/docs/test-cases.md)
document
- [ ] added tests
- [ ] if any new env variables are added, added them to `.env` file
---------
Co-authored-by: zehjotkah <111518041+zehjotkah@users.noreply.github.com>
Added react-router + cloudflare template to migrate our cloud
publishing.
This template does not support image optimization and intended only for
internal usage.
## Description
https://animations.wstd.work/
Breakpoints Example
See on narrow screen animation is disabled.
<img width="699" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f464fdf3-f57a-4cf7-91a1-beb355f8a5bd"
/>
## Steps for reproduction
1. click button
2. expect xyz
## Code Review
- [ ] hi @kof, 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:
0000)
- [ ] updated [test
cases](https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/blob/main/apps/builder/docs/test-cases.md)
document
- [ ] added tests
- [ ] if any new env variables are added, added them to `.env` file
We want to migrate more templates to react-router
so here I split docker template into react-router and
react-router-docker. Image processing, dockerfile and node environment
are left as docker specifics.
Added image a route for image processing in docker template based on ipx
package.
There a few things to note
- it does not have persistent caching and rely only on client cache
control
- performance is not good for remote images
- the package adds 30MB to node_modules, though it will be fixed soon
There is a DOMAINS env variable with comma-separated hosts to restrict
remote images processing similar to netlify and vercel.
Can be tested only locally for now.
Here added first react-router template which additionally adds docker
support. For now only adds Dockerfile + .dockerignore. Will add support
for image transforms separately.
Mostly duplicated defaults template
- replaced remix packages with react-router ones
- replaced `return redirect()` with `throw redirect()`
The template for now is self contained. Will split base react-router
template when will add more integrations.
Oleg Isonen