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Site builder (tool_sitebuilder)

See also: Tools user guide · Site builder · Site builder cookbook

Build a public website over your published data by talking to a coding agent, preview it, and — once it looks right — publish it to production.

What it's for

The site builder lets you create a public website — maps, charts, interactive analysis, a landing page — on top of the data your installation already publishes, without hand-writing code. You describe what you want to a coding agent in a chat, watch a live preview take shape, and publish it live when you are happy. The generated site reads only from the read-only publication data, so it can never reach your private work-system records.

Concrete scenario: an oral-history archive wants a public page with a map of every interview location and a timeline. A user opens the site builder, creates a site, asks the agent to build the map and timeline, refines it over a few messages while watching the preview, and then a developer or administrator publishes it to the public address.

Optional add-on

The site builder only appears when an administrator has provisioned its daemon for this museum and paired this engine with it. Until then it is completely hidden — the tool is not in your toolbar and its actions refuse.

When to use it

  • You want a public website built over your published data and are happy to guide it by conversation.
  • You want to preview a site on a pre-production address before anything goes live.

The people who build and preview sites need the tool granted to them; the final step of publishing to production is restricted to developers and administrators.

Where to find it

The launcher appears in Area maintenance, under the Publication subsystem, as the Site builder panel — open it there. It opens in its own window as a workspace with a site list, a chat with the agent, a live preview, and (for those permitted) a publish action. Administrators have the tool automatically; other users need it granted through their profile.

Using it

The day-to-day workflow and a library of example prompts live in the management guides — this page is only a short orientation.

  • For the workflow (create a site, chat with the agent, preview, publish) and a catalogue of prompts to try, see the Site builder cookbook.
  • For how the pieces fit together — and, for an administrator, how a museum's instance is declared, provisioned, adopted, decommissioned and backed up — see Site builder.

Tips and gotchas

Tip

Preview first. What you publish is the exact set of files you previewed on the pre-production address — the site's own domain with a pre. prefix, behind a password your administrator gives you — so get the preview right before taking it live.

Warning

Publishing takes a site to its public address and needs a developer or administrator; it also requires an explicit confirmation. Removing a site can optionally purge the published copy — only do that when you truly want the live site torn down.

  • Site builder — the administrator's guide: declaring an instance, provisioning it, drift, adoption, decommissioning, backups.
  • Site builder cookbook — the workflow and example prompts.
  • AI assistant — the in-app assistant for searching and editing your work data (a different surface from the public site builder).
  • Developer reference — the tool's actions, permission gates, and how it proxies the daemon.