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Environments
During onboarding, Cofounder sets up staging and production for the managed app stack.
Staging is where changes get reviewed and tested before they go live. Production is what powers the live app.
Staging And Production
For the app:
- Staging is the shared review environment for finished work
- Production is the live customer-facing environment
- the app also has a staging backend and a production backend
For marketing:
- Staging is the shared review environment for the site
- Production is the live marketing site
How Changes Reach Each Environment
Staging
Staging is the shared review environment.
To publish agent work to staging:
- The agent finishes work in its sandbox
- The agent requests a deploy
- You approve Publish to Staging
- Staging / preview updates for that target
For app work:
- the staged app can run against the staging backend
- migrations that reach staging follow the staging migration path
Production
Production is the live environment.
To publish staging to production:
- Use the workspace Publish button, or ask Cofounder to publish
- Cofounder runs the production publish flow for the selected target
- When publish completes, the live deployment updates
For app work:
- the live app continues running against the production backend
- migrations published to production follow the production migration path
How They Link Together
For app publishing:
- finished agent work is reviewed into staging after the agent requests a deploy
- staging is the place to confirm the change before customers see it
- the staged app can run against the staging backend
After production publish:
- the live app or website updates
- the live app continues running against the production backend
Marketing publishing follows the same staging-then-production flow, without the managed app backend.