Idea-to-App Pipeline

The Goal

Describe what you want in plain language. Get a running application back. Not a mockup, not a template — a real app with authentication, persistence, and deployment.

Phase 1: Idea to Preview (Live)

This works today. You describe your idea in chat, and an agent builds a React prototype in a sandboxed dev container. Within minutes you have a live preview URL to click through. It handles UI layout, component structure, and basic interactivity. The gap: it silently skips anything it cannot solve quickly — auth, database, API integrations.

Phase 2: Preview to Plan (Scaffolded)

The agent reviews what it built and identifies what was left out. Missing authentication? No data persistence? It produces a structured build plan with explicit gaps flagged, rather than pretending the prototype is complete. This phase is designed but not yet validated end-to-end.

Phase 3: Plan to App (Scaffolded)

Execute the plan inside a full dev container with git commits, dependency management, and environment configuration. Each build step is a discrete commit so you can review, revert, or branch. This phase exists in design only — the container orchestration works, but the planning-to-execution loop has not been tested as a complete flow.