Tilda Agent OS / Tilda MCP

Status: 0.2.0-prealpha — Phase 2 vertical slice complete in an isolated authorized lab; active development continues.

Tilda Agent OS is an open-source control plane that lets coding agents work with a visual Tilda editor through bounded, machine-readable operations. It combines same-session browser authority, typed ChangeSets, exact target gates, post-operation rereads, rollback, and separate publication controls.

This repository is a pre-alpha candidate, not a production or universal Tilda MCP. The public package intentionally contains no real account/project/page/ record IDs, client content, domains, browser state, raw traces, or private live fixtures. The narrow live vertical slice was verified privately in an isolated lab; the public checkout is the reproducible code and unit-test surface, not a replayable copy of that account.

What is here

• A local MCP stdio server with eleven bounded tools: status, capabilities, exact reads, ChangeSet plan/apply/verify/rollback, separate publish and unpublish requests, public verification, and one fixed page-lifecycle transaction.
• Typed ChangeSet and snapshot storage with stale-state checks, idempotency, append-only journal events, fail-closed recovery, and symlink/path guards.
• Adapter contracts for the narrow, evidence-backed standard.field.patch, t123.code.replace, Zero Block leaf/responsive/clone transitions, and page.seo.patch operations, plus a full page-specific HEAD read and page.head.code.replace lifecycle that never publishes as a side effect.
• A loopback CDP browser authority that rebinds to the current authenticated session and keeps editor reads, writes, and publication in one explicit target-gated workflow.
• Sanitized observability and a public read-only MCP smoke that uses no live target IDs and performs no remote writes.

The private Phase 2 evidence covered reversible Standard and T123 changes, narrow Zero and SEO changes, page-specific HEAD replacement, page lifecycle, separate publication/public verification, a source-project rejection, and a dedicated-browser restart/rebind followed by a read-only MCP smoke. Those claims are deliberately scoped to the exact tested lab/editor/runtime shapes; they do not imply support for every Tilda block, field, breakpoint, account, or editor release.

Quick start

Requirements: Node.js 20+, pnpm 11+, and (only for local authenticated research) a dedicated Chrome/Chromium profile with remote debugging enabled.

if (-not (Test-Path .env)) { Copy-Item .env.example .env }
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test
pnpm build
pnpm smoke:mcp

The public smoke checks the local MCP protocol, eleven tool registrations, structured capability output, and structured status output. It does not log in, open a live target, mutate Tilda, publish anything, or require account IDs.

For Codex, the project-scoped configuration is in .codex/config.toml. Start the server manually with pnpm mcp; stdout is reserved for MCP JSON-RPC and diagnostics go to stderr.

Safety boundary

• Use only accounts and projects the operator is authorized to operate.
• Treat every pre-existing project as read-only; use a dedicated isolated lab for experiments.
• Build a local ignored read-only inventory and exact lab allowlist before any write. The public package ships no account-specific ledger, so an unconfigured checkout remains fail-closed.
• Every edit follows read → snapshot → dry-run → one semantic mutation → reread → exact diff → restore → reread restore.
• Editing never publishes. Publication and unpublication are separate, approval-gated operations.
• Never commit credentials, cookies, auth/CSRF data, browser profiles, HAR or raw traces, Leads, orders, PII, proprietary content, or real Tilda IDs.
• An ambiguous or failed undocumented write is quarantined. Do not blindly retry it.

See SECURITY.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, and CAPABILITIES.md for the claim and evidence boundaries.

Why this matters

Coding agents already have reliable machine interfaces for source files, Git, CLIs, APIs, and databases. Visual SaaS editors are different: cursor-based automation is fragile, while undocumented runtime requests can be unsafe. This project explores a portable pattern for operating such environments with explicit identity, reversible transactions, evidence labels, and human approval at consequential gates.

Scope and roadmap

The current release is a narrow pre-alpha vertical slice. It does not claim a general editor-write API, arbitrary page/record access, all Zero families, assets, catalog/forms, cross-project moves, trash recovery, site-wide HEAD, Advanced Interface Mode compatibility, or production reliability. See ROADMAP.md for the next evidence gates.

License

Apache-2.0. Tilda is a trademark of its respective owner. This independent project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Tilda.