Publish your site

Deploy your workspace to a public address at yourname.skarmy.ai, approve the exact version going out, and get a link you can share.

Publishing puts your workspace on the public internet at an address you choose once. Nothing deploys without your explicit approval: Publish proposes, you approve.

Before you start

• A completed build. The Builder must have finished at least one milestone.
• A real account. Guests can talk to the coach, but publishing requires signing up.
• Enough credits to cover the publish fee. See How credits work.

Publish for the first time

1. Select Publish

   Select Publish at the top of the workspace. Its tooltip reads Publishes your last completed milestone.

2. Name your site

   A dialog opens titled Name your site. Type into the field; your address is that name plus .skarmy.ai.

   The hint under the field checks availability as you type:

   Hint	Meaning
   kilnwork.skarmy.ai is available	Yours to claim.
   That name is already taken. Try another	Someone else has it.
   That name is reserved. Try another	Reserved by Skarmy. See Site addresses.
   Use 3–63 lowercase letters, numbers, or hyphens	The name’s shape is wrong.
   Checking…	Availability check in flight.

   
3. Review and approve

   A dialog titled Review before publishing shows exactly what you are agreeing to:

   Row	What it tells you
   Version	Which build milestone goes out, and how many files it holds
   Audience	Public internet — anyone with the link can see it
   Cost	The publish fee in credits, or Free
   What happens	Plainly, what approving does
   Undo	How you would walk it back

   

   Select Approve and publish, or Not now to walk away. Only the explicit approval deploys anything.

   Expected result: the Publish button changes to Deploying….

4. Wait for it to go live

   Deployment takes a few minutes. You can keep working, and you can reload the page — the deployment carries on either way. Skarmy does not announce the address until the site actually serves.

   Expected result: a Live at yourname.skarmy.ai link appears next to the Publish button.

5. Open your site

   Select the link. It opens in a new tab.

   Expected result: your site loads at its public address.

You choose your address once and it belongs to that workspace permanently. There is currently no way to change it, so pick a name you are happy to share.

What gets published

Publishing deploys the last completed milestone, not whatever the Builder is doing right now. If it is mid-change, publishing ships the last finished state.

Your published site is a snapshot. It does not update when your preview updates. To refresh it, see Update a published site.

Ask the Builder to publish

You can also just say so:

Publish this.

The Builder proposes the publish and you get the same review dialog — it cannot deploy without your approval. It offers to publish after finishing the first complete version, and only proposes it once you say yes.

The Builder only publishes work that passed its own checks. If a publish fails, it tells you rather than reporting success.

Verify

• A Live at … link appears beside the Publish button.
• Opening it in a private or incognito window loads your site — proving it is genuinely public.
• The site matches your last completed milestone.

Troubleshooting

Message	What it means	What to do
Nothing to publish yet. Finish a build first	No completed milestone.	Wait for the Builder’s summary, then publish.
You're out of credits. Top up on the Usage page	Balance will not cover the publish fee.	Add credits on the Usage page.
That approval expired. Start the publish again	The review sat too long before you approved.	Select Publish again.
Your files changed since this was proposed. Start the publish again	The Builder changed something after the review opened.	Select Publish again to review the new version.
Publish failed. Try again	The deployment did not complete.	Select Publish again. A failed publish never loses your claimed name.
That name is already taken. Try another	Another workspace claimed it.	Choose a different name.
Couldn't check availability. You can still try to publish	The availability check failed, not the name.	Try publishing anyway — the claim is checked on the server.

Signed out or using a guest session? Publishing prompts you to create an account first. Everything you have built is kept.

Next

Site addresses

Naming rules and reserved names.

Update a published site

Ship your latest changes.