Write WHOLE files DIRECTLY — YOUR model generates the code, Kleap stores, builds and deploys it as-is. To change something in a file that ALREADY EXISTS, use edit_files instead (read_files → edit_files): it replaces just the lines you name, while write_files makes you retype the entire file and silently drops whatever you leave out — on a 30KB shared layout that is how headers and footers get wiped. No Kleap-AI step, so what ships is byte-for-byte what you wrote — the right choice when a phrase, a URL or a schema must be exact. Publishing still audits the result (see publish_app). Best for scaffolding exact pages/components — e.g. programmatic-SEO routes. Astro paths (src/pages/.astro, src/data/.json, src/components/.astro, public/). Overwrites by path. NPM PACKAGES: do not write package.json (the build replaces it) — the build installs whatever your code IMPORTS, so import { jsPDF } from "jspdf"; is all it takes. Supported on import: @tiptap/, jspdf, pdf-lib, html2canvas, papaparse, file-saver, jszip, @ffmpeg/, howler, wavesurfer.js, browser-image-compression, react-dropzone, recharts, chart.js, d3, @tanstack/, react-hook-form, three, @react-three/, leaflet, maplibre-gl, gsap, framer-motion, zustand, date-fns, react-markdown, axios, socket.io-client, radix-ui/, next-themes, lucide-react, @tabler/, openai, @ai-sdk/*; anything else is refused at build with a message naming it. A client-side router is never the answer — a route is a FILE (src/pages/about.astro → /about). IMAGES AND BINARIES: set encoding:"base64" on the file and send the bytes — that is how you put a logo, a photo, an OG image, a favicon or a font on the site (png/jpg/webp/svg/ico/mp4/woff2/pdf, 512KB max each decoded). Without it you can only write text, and a site with no images looks unfinished. To ADD an image from a text prompt WITHOUT sending any bytes (a real photo's base64 is too big to emit reliably), use generate_image — Kleap generates it and stores it for you. To REMOVE a page or asset, use delete_files — overwriting it with empty content leaves a URL that answers 200 with nothing, which is worse than a 404. DATA & ACCOUNTS: write_files only STORES files — it cannot provision the Kleap Database, so DB or auth code pushed here has no backend and silently does nothing. Stand the feature up with modify_app first, then edit those pages here. After writing, call publish_app to build & go live.
