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.
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.
## 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
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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.
1. fix the issue with expressions requiring string when expression, this
is an issue not only for meta in page settings but for any field that
supports bindings
2. make sure llm knows when to use bindings and when to just set the
string value, test it with a subagent without additional context
## 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.
Commit db78ae4 (`feat: Bring back blue token color and remove Figma
token sync pipeline`) deleted
`packages/design-system/src/__generated__/figma-design-tokens` but
`.storybook/preview.tsx` still imports `color` from it, breaking
Chromatic/Storybook builds.
The same `color` export already exists in `design-tokens.ts` (the source
that was previously used to generate the deleted file).
```diff
- import { color } from "../packages/design-system/src/__generated__/figma-design-tokens";
+ import { color } from "../packages/design-system/src/design-tokens";
```
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/issues/4586
Closes https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/issues/4619
## Summary
Fixes shared Slot editing so linked Slot occurrences stay consistent
across structural edits and labels.
## Changes
- Fixed moving a direct Slot child out of a Slot so the child is removed
from all linked Slot occurrences.
- Fixed unwrapping a direct Slot child so the child is removed from all
linked Slot occurrences.
- Added linked Slot label sync when renaming from Navigator or Settings
panel.
- Added/updated tests for canonical Slots, legacy Slots, nested Slot
children, keyboard moves, unwrap, reparent, and label sync.
- Simplified stale Slot detach logic that was incorrectly cloning only
the selected Slot occurrence.
## Testing
- `pnpm --filter @webstudio-is/builder test --
app/shared/instance-utils/...`
- `pnpm --filter @webstudio-is/builder test --
app/builder/shared/commands.test.ts`
- `pnpm --filter @webstudio-is/builder typecheck`
- `pnpm lint`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary
Fixes insertion into legacy Slot instances whose children are stored
directly under the Slot instead of under the newer hidden Fragment
wrapper.
Previously, adding an element to an old Slot could insert the new
element into the first existing Slot child. The insertion path assumed
the first Slot child was always a Fragment.
## Changes
- Normalize legacy Slot children during insertion by wrapping direct
Slot children in a Fragment.
- Preserve the existing behavior for valid `Slot -> Fragment ->
children` structures.
- Add regression tests for:
- low-level `insertInstanceChildrenMutable`
- UI-facing `insertWebstudioElementAt`
## Validation
```bash
pnpm --filter @webstudio-is/builder test -- app/shared/instance-utils.test.tsx
pnpm --filter @webstudio-is/builder typecheck
```
User reported:
The repeated animation issue has been fixed on Webstudio Cloud hosting,
but the bug still exists — and is actually even worse — on self-hosted
deployments, whether it's on Netlify or Vercel.
Animations sometimes play twice on the initial page load. They also
replay before navigating to another page and when clicking an anchor
link that points to a section on the same page.
Additionally, on the very first visit to the website, the first
interaction with Radix components causes all animations to replay again.
As far as I can tell, this no longer happens after assets are cached,
but the initial glitch is still noticeable and doesn't look very
polished from a user experience perspective.
Originally we made the token color purple to make it more distinct from
local style source, but now local style source is visually different and
having both blue makes sense because when its blue, active style values
are matching the blue color and it makes it more clear what that blue
color on values means.
Closes https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/issues/2966
## Description
Fixes visitor-facing crashes when a text binding resolves to a non-text
value, such as an object returned from a resource.
Generated expression children now render through `renderText`, which
preserves strings and numbers and renders other runtime values as empty
text. This prevents React SSR from throwing `Objects are not valid as a
React child` when resource data shape changes unexpectedly.
## Changes
- Added `renderText(value)` runtime helper.
- Wrapped generated expression children with `renderText(...)`.
- Updated generated page imports to include `renderText`.
- Added rendering tests for resource status/error fields and
object-shaped bindings.
## Tests
```bash
pnpm --filter @webstudio-is/react-sdk test -- context.test.tsx component-generator.test.tsx
pnpm --filter @webstudio-is/react-sdk typecheck
pnpm --filter ./packages/cli typecheck
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