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Ship a website by
talking to your AI.

No git, no dashboard, no signup form. There are two ways in, depending on where your AI lives: install the skill if you're in a coding agent, or just paste a link if you're in a web chat like ChatGPT.

For coding agents · the skill

Up and running in three steps.

Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, opencode, and Cursor — anything with a shell.

  1. 1

    Add the skill

    Drop the skill files into your tool's skills folder — no script to run. It teaches the agent the whole platform (JSON deploy, state & collections, private pages, widgets, templates). Per-tool and Windows steps are right below.

    Quickest: tell your agent "download https://simple-host.app/skills.zip and unzip it into ~/.claude/skills" — or grab skills.zip yourself.

  2. 2

    Describe what you want

    In a fresh chat, point at your files or just describe the site: "Deploy this folder to Simple Host," or "Build me a waitlist page with email signups."

  3. 3

    It ships — then iterate

    Live at https://your-name.simple-host.app in under a minute. Change it by chatting: "make the hero green," "add a live counter."

example prompt
# Step 1 — add the skill (no script — unzip into
#          ~/.claude/skills; see the table below)

# Step 2 — describe your site
Build a coming-soon page for my app
"PlantPal" with an email signup list
and a live "join N others" counter.

# Step 3 — ship it
Use the simple-host skill to deploy it.

# iterate, in plain English
"make the hero forest-green"
"add a countdown to launch day"
Installing the skill · no script required

Just drop it in your skills folder.

The skill is plain Markdown — nothing executes. The quickest way is the universal skills CLI (works across 17+ agents); or download skills.zip and unzip it into your tool's skills directory, or tell your agent to do it. You never have to pipe a remote script into your shell.

ToolSkills folder · macOS / LinuxWindows
Claude Code~/.claude/skills/%USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\
Codex CLI~/.agents/skills/%USERPROFILE%\.agents\skills\
opencode~/.config/opencode/skills/%USERPROFILE%\.config\opencode\skills\
Hermes~/.hermes/skills/%USERPROFILE%\.hermes\skills\
OpenClaw~/.openclaw/skills/%USERPROFILE%\.openclaw\skills\
Cursor / otherPoint it at the skills directory it reads (see your tool's docs) — the files are identical.
Claude.ai / DesktopNeeds a paid plan (Pro/Max/Team) with Code execution on. Open your skills settings (Settings → Features, or Customize → Skills), choose “+ Create skill”, and upload each ZIP separately: website-deploy.zip website-deploy-builder.zip

Rather run it yourself? Unzip into your tool's folder:

macOS / Linux · (Claude Code shown)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && curl -fsSL https://simple-host.app/skills.zip -o /tmp/sh-skills.zip && unzip -o /tmp/sh-skills.zip -d ~/.claude/skills
Windows · PowerShell · (Claude Code shown)
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills" | Out-Null
Invoke-WebRequest https://simple-host.app/skills.zip -OutFile "$env:TEMP\sh-skills.zip"
Expand-Archive "$env:TEMP\sh-skills.zip" "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills" -Force

For Codex / opencode, swap in the folder from the table. There's also a one-liner for macOS/Linux — curl -fsSL https://simple-host.app/install.sh | sh — but it only does the unzip above; read it first if you'd rather not run a script.

Hermes installs straight from the URL — no download needed: hermes skills install https://simple-host.app/skills/website-deploy/SKILL.md --name website-deploy (and the same with website-deploy-builder). OpenClaw auto-discovers any SKILL.md under its skills root, so the unzip above into ~/.openclaw/skills/ is all it needs.

For web AI · copy & paste

No agent to run? Paste a site.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and the like can't run commands or sign you in — so they build the site and hand you a JSON block. You paste it here, preview, and publish. Nothing to install.

Copy the instructions # Simple Host — full deploy instructions for your AI …

Most chat assistants can't open a link — so copy the full instructions (the contents of /llms.txt) and paste them straight into the chat.

  1. 1

    Ask it to build the site

    Paste the instructions (the Copy button above) into the chat, then describe what you want. It builds a complete site as one JSON block. (If your AI can open links, /llms.txt works too.)

  2. 2

    Copy the JSON it gives you

    The assistant replies with a single json code block — copy the whole thing.

  3. 3

    Paste it here & publish

    At simple-host.app, sign in (one 6-digit email code), open Create a site with AI“Built it in ChatGPT or Gemini? Paste the JSON”, paste, preview, and hit Publish. Live at https://your-name.simple-host.app.

chatgpt · gemini · copilot
You
Build me a wedding RSVP page. Follow
https://simple-host.app/llms.txt and give me
the JSON to paste.

Assistant
Here's your site — copy this and paste it
into Simple Host:
```json
{ "simpleHost": 1, "name": "priya-wedding",
  "files": { "index.html": "<!DOCTYPE html>…" } }
```
→ then paste it at simple-host.app → Publish

Tip: if your assistant can make web requests (some can browse or run code), it can deploy directly — but the copy-paste path always works.

A static site — with a backend when you need it.

Your assistant reads the spec, so you don't have to.

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Anything HTML

Portfolios, résumés, landing & coming-soon pages, event RSVPs, menus, docs.

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A free per-site store

Forms, counters, polls, votes, guestbooks — no database to set up.

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Drop-in widgets

Threaded comments, feedback pins, password-protected private pages, ready-made templates.

Full machine-readable reference: /llms.txt · /openapi.json