Outer

A personal software forge for AI agents — your agent builds the app, Outer serves it at <slug>.outer.now.

Outer is a personal software forge for AI agents. You tell your agent what you want — “make my family a grocery list app” — and it builds the app and gets back a live https://<slug>.outer.now link you can share.

Core concepts

Three terms, used everywhere in these docs:

App — an Ilha + Void web app, live at https://<slug>.outer.now. Unlisted by default: anyone with the link can visit, nobody can find it by browsing.
Agent — your AI agent (Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, …), connected to Outer over MCP. The agent writes the code, ships it, and reads back the result.
Deploy — one shipped change. Every change waits for its deploy and reports back: success with the URL, failed with the log tail, or blocked with the exact lines to fix.

The core loop

Connect your agent

Point it at https://outer.now/mcp — one line per client in Connect. Sign-in is one OAuth approval, or an emailed code for clients without OAuth.

Ask for an app

“Make a grocery list app for my family.” Your agent calls create_app and a live Ilha + Void app serves in seconds.

Refine it

“Add a filter for who bought what.” Every change ships through the same loop: build, review, deploy — the previous version keeps serving until the new one is healthy.

Share the link

Your agent returns the URL plus a QR code for the family chat (share_app). Open the Console to see what it built.

What you can build

Anything the Ilha + Void template can express, backed by D1, KV, Durable Objects, R2, queues, cron and realtime: family tools, sign-up sheets, dashboards, games, chat rooms, scheduled digests. Concrete starters with copy-paste prompts: What you can build.

Start here

Quickstart

Connect your chat app, ask for an app, see it live — about ten minutes.

Connect

One line per client: Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, anything else.

Console

Watch your apps: deploys, logs, errors, data, secrets, settings.

Get help

Ask your agent first — it reads these docs over MCP (docs tool) and relays any user_message from a refusal verbatim. Those messages are written for you; don’t let it improvise around them.
Deploy stuck? FAQ and troubleshooting covers the common failures: sign-in, blocked deploys, held apps, sleeping fleets.
Prompting tips — how to ask so your agent gets it right the first time: Prompting your agent.