GoLive

Take your agent-built product live: hosting, database, auth, domain, email, payments — on your own accounts. Then hand it over, or tear it all down.

Your coding agent can build an app in minutes. Getting it to real users still means accounts, hosting, databases, domains, secrets and connected services. GoLive is the open-source Agent Skill for that work: it detects what your app needs, plans the exact changes, asks for your approval, applies them with your own logins, and verifies what actually works — then records what it created, re-checks it for drift on demand, and can remove it again.

Automate the parts providers expose. Guide you through the parts that need a human. Verify what can be observed, and make unfinished work clear. No GoLive account, hosted backend or product telemetry.

Early alpha · 0.1.0-alpha.2 Disposable live tests now cover six journeys: hosting (Vercel, Netlify), database (Supabase, Neon), custom-domain DNS (Porkbun, GoDaddy), transactional email (Resend), test-mode payments (Stripe) and Supabase authentication, plus the teardown uninstall path. The ownership document and the on-demand golive status drift check are implemented with test coverage (golive status also ran read-only in a live validation), while the broader roadmap is our direction, not a claim that it is all built.

Install · Use GoLive · See the workflow · Alpha scope · Roadmap · Contribute

Install

You need Node.js 20+, npm/npx, Git, and a coding agent that can load skills and run commands. Installation has been checked for Codex and Claude Code; other clients are unverified.

Install once for all your projects. Run this from any directory:

npx skills add https://github.com/mikehasa/golive-skill --skill golive --global

Select your agent when prompted: use the arrow keys to move, Space to select, and Enter to confirm. That screen is waiting for input; installation continues after you confirm.

To skip the agent picker, use the command for your agent:

# Codex
npx skills add https://github.com/mikehasa/golive-skill --skill golive --global --agent codex --yes

# Claude Code
npx skills add https://github.com/mikehasa/golive-skill --skill golive --global --agent claude-code --yes

For installation in just one project, run from that project's repository and omit --global.

Or paste this into your coding agent:

Install the GoLive skill globally so I can use it across projects:
npx skills add https://github.com/mikehasa/golive-skill --skill golive --global

Target the agent I'm using: add --agent codex --yes for Codex, or
--agent claude-code --yes for Claude Code. Keep --global.
If the agent isn't clear, ask me which one.

Verify the installation with:
node <installed-skill-dir>/scripts/golive.mjs version --json
Tell me if I need to reload skills or start a new session.
Stop after installation; don't connect accounts or deploy yet.

The install includes the instructions, provider references and prebuilt runtime. It does not connect accounts or deploy anything. See installation and updates for noninteractive agent flags, runtime verification and the optional own installer.

Install from npm

The same skill is published to npm as golive@0.1.0-alpha.2 (dist-tags alpha and latest), which installs it offline, with no Git or Skills CLI involved:

# Codex
npx golive@alpha install --agent codex

# Claude Code
npx golive@alpha install --agent claude

Add --global to install into your home directory (~/.agents/skills/golive or ~/.claude/skills/golive) instead of the current project. The installer copies the complete skill the package ships with, refuses an existing destination, and never connects provider accounts.

Both channels carry the same release. The npm package publishes the version in this repository, including the standalone installer helpers, so an npm installation is an owned copy that updates in place. The earlier 0.1.0-alpha.0 snapshot has no updater: remove that copy and reinstall, or use the GitHub channel, which manages its own installs. The npm package also exposes the terminal CLI: npx golive@alpha help, version, detect, menu, plan, apply, verify, handoff — apply needs the approved plan ID and explicit confirmation. See installation and updates for the channel's exact limits.

Use GoLive

Open your app repository in your coding agent. After installation, reload skills or start a new session if GoLive does not appear. The skill's name is golive. For the standalone installation above, type one of these in your agent's chat:

You can also ask in plain language:

Use the golive skill to take this app live. Keep the providers it already uses.
Show me the destination accounts and plan before changing anything.

GoLive inspects the app, asks about missing providers, and presents the destination accounts and plan for your approval before making provider changes.

These are chat prompts. golive skill is not a command. Installing through npx skills add does not add a golive command to your terminal; the agent runs the included CLI from the installed skill directory. The npm package can also install the skill offline and exposes that CLI as npx golive@alpha <command>; its terminal commands run individual operations rather than the conversational skill workflow.

What a run looks like

An illustrative conversation for an app that already uses Supabase:

You: Use golive to take this app live. Use test resources for now.

Agent: This app uses Supabase. Where would you like to host it?

1. Vercel — built-in hosting workflow; live-tested with Supabase.
2. Netlify — built-in hosting workflow; the live-tested pairing is Netlify + Neon.
3. Other — tell me your provider; I'll try a guided setup using its official tools and docs.

You: Vercel.

Agent: We'll keep Supabase. Does this app already have a Supabase project, or should we create a new test project?

You: Create a new one.

Agent: Run vercel login and supabase login in a separate terminal window. I'll check which account and organization are connected when you're done.

You: Done.

Agent: Here's the plan: create a new test frontend project in your selected Vercel team, create its database in your selected Supabase organization, transfer the required environment values, and deploy. I'll show the actual destination names and IDs, resource settings and cost information with the plan. Approve before I apply it.

You: Approved.

Agent: The deployment is live. Here is the URL, the verification report, and anything still unverified. Next we'll test the app's own signup and data flows. When you're done with this test project, golive teardown plans its removal for your approval before anything is deleted.

GoLive keeps the provider choices already in your app and asks about missing pieces. You handle signups, browser logins, identity checks and purchases. If an API key is needed on macOS, a native hidden-input dialog explains why it is asking and where the key will be saved. Its value goes directly to the local credentials file, never to chat or command output. Other platforms use your own editor as a fallback. A later change to the plan needs another approval; connecting auth or a domain may require a follow-up after the first deploy.

Using another provider? The skill has a general guided flow: check the provider's official CLI, an available official MCP integration or API, then guide you through its dashboard if needed. The agent still shows the destination, changes and cost before asking for approval, and checks what it can afterward. This is best-effort guidance, with no guarantee of completion or the same verification coverage as a built-in adapter. If a step cannot be completed or verified, you get the specific blocker and next action. See guided provider scope.

What this alpha supports

Two hosting choices: Vercel and Netlify. Two database choices: Supabase and Neon.

These were approved disposable runs on existing accounts; completed test resources were deleted afterward, and recent runs' disposable projects and records are cleaned up under the same supervision. Cr