Everything Pikku Studio Cloud does, written down.
71 pages on building your app, putting it live, connecting it to other services, keeping an eye on it and paying for it. If the website mentions it, it is explained here.
Start here
- Quick start
From an idea to a running app in one conversation, all in the browser.
- Core concepts
Projects, sandboxes, stages and deployments: the few words the rest of the docs lean on.
- Point your coding agent at it
Using Claude Code, Codex or Cursor? Give it prompt.md and it builds and deploys from there.
Getting Started
Build
The Builder
- Builder overviewHow the AI-powered builder works and what it can do.
- ChatThe conversation you build in — it decides, writes it down, and puts the builders to work.
- The console assistantAsk about what is on screen, and it answers from there.
- KnowledgeThe written record of what your app is and why — the thing the builder actually builds from.
- MilestonesYour app gets built one shippable piece at a time, and each piece is written down first.
- The WeaveEvery function, route, workflow, and agent — woven into one live picture.
- App previewLive preview of your frontend app running inside the sandbox.
- DesignColors, fonts, and the screen options you pick before a milestone is built.
- User flows (scenarios)Real user journeys, clicked through automatically before anything ships.
- TranslationsManage your app’s wording in every language it supports.
- CodeBrowse the real source files behind your app, right in the builder.
- What would changeCompare your sandbox against any deployed stage, field by field, before you ship.
- PublishingThe one deliberate step that takes your work live — checks, commit, and deploy.
- Start from what you haveAttach an OpenAPI spec, an n8n workflow, or your own documents when you create a project.
- WorkflowsViewing and understanding multi-step workflows in your project.
- AgentsInspecting AI agents declared in your codebase.
- PersonasThe cast of pretend customers your checks are written as.
Run
Deployments
- Stages & environmentsProduction, staging, and preview stages.
- DeploymentsHow deploys are triggered, tracked, and promoted.
- FunctionsViewing deployed functions and their version history.
- WiresHTTP routes, real-time channels, MCP tools, and CLI wirings.
- AsyncSchedulers, queues, and event triggers.
- WorkflowsLong-running workflow executions and their run history.
- AgentsDeployed agent endpoints and invocation history.
- MCP toolsExpose your app's functions as tools AI assistants can call.
- EmailsThe transactional emails your app sends, with a live preview.
- Messaging channelsLet people reach your app over WhatsApp or Slack.
- AddonsInstalling and managing addons for your project.
- UsersHow people sign in to your app, and who has signed up.
- Organizations & multi-tenancyTeams inside your product — invitations, roles, and tenant isolation.
- Database & migrationsA real database, with every schema change tracked in code.
- ContentThe files your app stores — uploads, attachments, and documents.
- Everything your app offersWhat your project makes available to the outside world.
- What is runningThe services, checks and rules inside a deployed app.
- PermissionsWhat each person is allowed to do, and the roles you build from it.
- Ways to sign inEvery way people can get into your app, and which are switched on.
- ReviewWhat changed in the latest build, ranked so the important parts come first.
- WebhooksHow cloud tells your own systems a release is ready, and waits for them.
Configuration
- Environment variablesPer-stage public config injected into your app at runtime.
- SecretsEncrypted key-value pairs for API keys and credentials.
- CredentialsOAuth and service credentials declared via defineCredential().
- Custom domainsPut your app on your own domain name, with automatic HTTPS.
- Secret accessThe key that keeps your secrets locked, and how to get back in.
- Feature flagsTurning something on for a few people before everyone.
- SecurityKnown problems in the outside code your app is built on.
Observability
- Observability overviewHealth, error rate, latency, and runtime traffic at a glance.
- LogsSearching and filtering function logs across your deployment.
- Database schemaViewing your live database schema from the console.
- AuditA complete record of who did what, and when.
- Analytics eventsEverything your app can report about how people use it.
- ScorersHow the work your agents finish gets graded.
- Virtual customersPretend customers who use your running app to find what a test cannot.
Your project
- Project overviewThe home of a project — its sandboxes, stages, and health in one place.
- Stages & branchesAdding a stage, and how each one maps to a branch of your repository.
- Project settingsNaming, repository, and the settings that apply to the whole project.
- AppsThe parts of your project people open, and a preview of each.
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