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Preview, publish, and your own domain

How the running preview works, what publishing changes, and where the URL comes from.

6 min · Updated Aug 2026

Every project has two lives: the preview you and the agent share, and the published build the world sees. They are deliberately different.

The preview is a real machine

Your preview is an actual dev server in an isolated sandbox with your real dependencies installed. That is why the agent can click through it, take screenshots, read its console, and catch a runtime error you would otherwise find in production.

Live mode and served mode

Live mode keeps a hot dev server attached for instant feedback. Served mode builds your project and serves the static output — cheaper, faster on repeat loads, and closer to what your visitors get. Projects move between them without changing a line of code.

Platform status — every service that stands behind a preview, reported live.
Platform status — every service that stands behind a preview, reported live.

Publishing

  1. 1
    Publish

    Produces a public build on a stable Luminax address. Preview keeps running independently.

  2. 2
    Attach a domain

    Point your domain at the project; certificates are issued automatically.

  3. 3
    Re-publish freely

    Publishing is not a release ceremony. Ship five times an hour if the work wants it.

Build
Verify
Swap
Loop
Publishing: build, verify, swap. The old build keeps serving until the new one answers.

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