A website in SHIPIT: from questions to publishing

Open Start in the sidebar and click the Website card. The builder opens under Prompts › Make.

A Beginner sees the same choice at the end of the first-run setup: the First step screen, the Website card and Open the builder.

The builder asks one thing at a time: Pick a design (100 ready styles), What kind of site?, What is it about?, What should a visitor do?, Which sections?, How should it look? and Site language.

Write it like you would to a friend. You can leave a field empty: the agent marks it, and you fill it in later.

At the end, press Build it in SHIPIT. If this Mac has both Claude Code and Codex, a Who builds it choice sits next to it.

SHIPIT makes a folder ~/SHIPIT/name, puts the task into BRIEF.md there and opens the project in the Code tab: on the left a chat with the agent, which already has the task, on the right the site itself.

TipA second café with the same name never lands in the first: SHIPIT makes a new folder ending in -2.

Above the preview, one plain sentence says what the agent is doing right now, for example Changing the site's files…. Until there is a page, it reads The site appears here as soon as the agent makes index.html. After that the preview reloads by itself whenever the files change.

Show site opens it in your browser. If the agent started a local server, Show live preview appears next to it.

Type in the chat what to change, for example: “Make the Book a table button stand out more.” The agent changes the files and the preview on the right reloads.

When the agent is done, the line at the top reads Done. Ask for the next change in the chat.

After every agent reply, SHIPIT remembers the state of the site on its own. Undo last change puts the site back as it was before the agent's last change. While the agent works, the button is off.

If files were changed outside SHIPIT, it first asks Undo changes made outside SHIPIT? and names those files. Undo runs on Git: if Git is not installed on the Mac or the folder has its own Git, undo is off.

Press Publish at the top right. Pick GitHub Pages (the site files go into a public repository) or Cloudflare Pages (only the site files go online). Under each option you see whether its tool is ready on this Mac.

Ask the agent to publish sends the steps to the agent as an ordinary message that you see in the chat. The agent asks you before every sign-in.

TipOpen “What the agent receives” to read that message before you send it.

When the agent shows the site address, put it into the field under When the agent shows the site address (there is a Paste site address button) and press Looks published? Check. A new site can take a few minutes to answer.

Once the site answers, Your site is online appears with Show published site and Copy link, and the button at the top turns into Published.