Emergent · Public-URL wrap
A public Emergent Deploy URL — or a shared preview link — can still burn hosting credits or point Auth at a preview database the week strangers arrive. Before ads, seal workspace secrets, treat preview Mongo as non-prod, require real sign-in on mutating journeys, and own a Deploy off switch that does not wait on another agent turn. Keep managed hosting for now — prove the harden first.
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Hardening means the public Emergent URL stays up while you lock the risky agent-built journeys. Secrets leave the workspace. Preview databases never back production Auth. Watching catches a credit burn. A Deploy flag or prior tag turns the release off without another agent turn. Exit pages wait until stranger tests fail that bar.
When the public-URL wrap is still honest
If secrets still sit only in the workspace, or production Auth still points at a preview DB, this is not a wrap. Pick migrate or to-production instead.
Those need server-side permission on the public URL — not a UI filter the agent left behind.
Preview and production DBs are separate. Never point live Auth at a preview store.
Prior tag, feature flag, or blocked track. “We will ask the agent to revert” is not an off switch.
Rotate keys that touched the workspace. Viewers of the app must not open Deploy. If secrets cannot leave, you are past hardening.
The public-URL wrap week
Keep the current host. Prove preview≠prod split, sealed secrets, watching, and a Deploy off switch before ads.
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Start there. Marketing pages wait.
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Rotate anything that appeared in collaborator history.
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Know when credits burn or the primary journey fails. Stop a bad release without waiting on a model.
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If stranger tests still fail after the wrap, migrate is the honest next page.
How to
Lock risk on the current host. Stay until evidence says leave.
Step 01
Those are the lock targets — not demo screens the agent polished last.
Step 02
Kill demo bypasses. Never point live Auth at preview Mongo.
Step 03
Fresh values outside the public bundle.
Step 04
Prior tag or blocked track — before ads. Cap credit spend.
Step 05
Keep managed hosting or leave based on what still broke.
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Secrets out of the workspace, real sign-in on every path that changes data, preview≠prod DB confirmed, watching on the primary journey, and a Deploy off switch you can flip without another agent turn. Polished preview screens are not the minimum.
Treat the workspace as a leak. Rotate every key that appeared there. Point production Auth only at the production DB. Force stranger-like accounts through the public URL — never only on a personal preview link that sleeps after idle.
Primary journey failures, Auth errors after Deploy, 429s, and hosting-credit burn spikes. Watching without a Deploy off switch is only half the lock.
When secrets cannot leave the workspace, when preview DB is the only store that works, or when you cannot name which agent-built paths touch money. Then migrate or to-production is the honest page — not another wrap week.
Bring which agent-built journeys take money, where workspace secrets still live, preview vs prod DB status, and how you would stop a bad Deploy without another agent turn. We lock before we talk migrate.
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