The preview and the sandbox
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The right side of the workspace shows your draft running in a private sandbox. Only you (and your team) can see it, and nothing you do there affects your live site or its data.
Preview toolbar
Section titled “Preview toolbar”- Desktop / Mobile — switch the frame size.
- Refresh — reload the preview.
- Open in new tab — open your live site (shown once the project is published).
- Edit — turn on point and edit.
Above the preview, a status shows what the sandbox is doing: Starting preview…, Preview running, or Preview error. The address bar is tagged sandbox while you are looking at unpublished changes.
What the states mean
Section titled “What the states mean”| You see | What is happening |
|---|---|
| Starting the live preview… | The sandbox is being created. |
| Waking the live preview… | It had gone to sleep and is starting again — about a minute. |
| Waiting for resources… | SKAEL is waiting for capacity. Nothing is wrong with your app; it starts by itself. |
| The sandbox is asleep | It slept after being idle. It wakes on your next message to the AI. |
| This project has nothing to run yet | There is no build setup yet — ask the AI to set up the build. |
| The app failed to start | The app crashed on start. Open the Startup tab to see why, or ask the AI to fix it. |
Sleeping
Section titled “Sleeping”To save resources the sandbox goes to sleep when you are away. After 15 minutes without activity SKAEL asks Still working? — press I’m still here within a minute to keep it running.
Testing with real data
Section titled “Testing with real data”The sandbox has its own data, separate from your live site, and it starts empty. To test with real records:
- Open the Labs tab in the left panel.
- Press Sync from prod. This replaces the sandbox data with a copy of your live data.
The left-panel tabs
Section titled “The left-panel tabs”| Tab | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Chat | Your conversation with the AI. |
| Labs | The sandbox’s own collections (schema and data), its memory/CPU/storage use, and Sync from prod. |
| Logs | Live logs from your production app or the sandbox, filterable by level and searchable. |
| Startup | How the sandbox started: provisioning, installing, ready — and the error output if it failed. |