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An AI assistant such as Claude can work on your site for you. You describe what you want in your own words, and it does it in q.e.d.:

  • "Write a page about our team, with a photo of each of us."
  • "Move all posts from 2023 below the archive page."
  • "Check every page for typos and fix them."
  • "Which pictures aren't used anywhere?"

It works on the same site you have open in q.e.d., following the same rules as the app. You see every change in Versions and can undo it.

What it can do, and what it can't

It can

  • read, write and make pages and posts, with all blocks
  • give a page a new address (links and redirects are taken care of, as when you move a page in q.e.d.)
  • delete pages that nothing links to, and pictures and files that nothing uses any more (to replace screenshots, for example)
  • add pictures and files from your computer, and files the website needs exactly as they are (such as old slide shows) at their old addresses
  • change the footer, shared blocks and the site settings (menu, logo, theme, web address, your profiles elsewhere); the site has to open with them, or q.e.d. refuses
  • build the site and report broken links
  • save a version with a note saying what it changed

It can't

  • publish: putting the site online is always your click, in Publish
  • save a broken page: q.e.d. checks every page first and tells the assistant what's wrong
  • overwrite a change you made meanwhile
  • touch anything outside the site's folder

Setting it up

  1. Open the site in q.e.d. and go to the App tab. Under AI assistants you find the settings for this site, ready to copy.
  2. For Claude Desktop: in Claude Desktop, open Settings → Developer → Edit Config. This opens the file claude_desktop_config.json. Paste the part q.e.d. shows (Copy), save, and restart Claude Desktop. If the file already has servers in it, add q.e.d.'s entry to the ones there.
  3. For Claude Code in a terminal: copy the command q.e.d. shows and run it once in a terminal.
  4. For Claude Code in VS Code: the command from step 3 often doesn't work there, because the VS Code extension brings its own Claude Code without the claude command. Instead, save the part q.e.d. shows under Claude Code in VS Code as a file named .mcp.json in the folder you open in VS Code, for example the site's folder. When Claude Code starts in that folder, it asks once whether to use the server in it; say yes.

Do this once for each site you want the assistant to work on. The settings name q.e.d. itself: the assistant starts it in the background, without a window, and talks to it. Other assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol work the same way.

If you move q.e.d. or the site's folder, set it up again: the settings contain both places.

Checking and undoing its work

The assistant's changes are saved like yours. Ask it to "save a version when you're done": its note then shows in Versions, for example "Team page with photos". There you see what changed on each page and can go back, as described in Versions.

If you edit a page in q.e.d. while the assistant changes the same page, nothing is lost. The assistant is told that the page changed and reads it again; q.e.d. asks you which version to keep when you save.

To see the result before publishing, use the preview button in q.e.d. as always.

Questions

Does the assistant send my site to the internet?

The assistant itself runs at its maker, for Claude at Anthropic. The pages it reads and writes go there as part of the conversation, like anything you type into it. q.e.d. doesn't send anything anywhere.

Does q.e.d. have to be open?

No. The assistant starts q.e.d. in the background by itself. If q.e.d. is open too, you see its changes when you look at the page again.

Can it publish by mistake?

No. There is no way for it to publish. You decide when the site goes online.