Tempo · Visual editor stops writing product
Getting off Tempo means the visual editor is no longer writable for production UI—write freeze first, then demote share links to reference. The screens and tokens you already approved stay; engineering Git becomes the only place those files change for customers. Tempo can remain a museum or a sandbox project, but it stops being the live authoring surface for prod.
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CodeCross LLC defines get-off-tempo as enforcing a write freeze on the production-bound visual editor and demoting share links to reference-only. Operators land the emitted tree in eng Git, cut write/publish rights on the live Tempo project, and prove production builds without an open editor session. Done when customer-facing UI changes require a Git merge—and share links no longer authorize anything in Auth or DNS.
What still binds you to the visual session
Tempo is excellent at proposing screens. It is the wrong record once more than one engineer must change the same components under review, tests, and a rollback you can name.
Source of truth has not moved until `main` builds the same routes without anyone logged into Tempo.
A sync without CODEOWNERS is a snapshot. A second maintainer must be able to change a component and ship it without opening Tempo.
Editor regenerations overwrite or diverge from reviewed commits. You fork the product the moment production OAuth or customer data still bind to the live Tempo project.
A preview of the exported app proves a commit. A preview spawned from the editor is not leaving Tempo.
How source of truth actually moves
Keep the screens Tempo already proved. Stop authoring product UI inside the visual editor. Every accepted change after freeze is a pull request against the org repo.
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Map files last authored in Tempo. Complete a reproducible GitHub sync with lockfiles and shared primitives into the org repo.
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Treat the sync as a first commit. Ownership is proven when a second maintainer ships a component change without opening Tempo.
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Lock the visual editor so “quick layout fixes” do not fork the tree. If exploration continues, clone a throwaway project—never the production session.
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Preview URLs prove a commit of the synced app. Leaving Tempo is complete when previews and production both build from the repo.
How to
The visual session stops being where UI is authored. Success is the next accepted UI change landing as a pull request against the synced tree.
Step 01
Stakeholder-approved screens must change under review, tests, and named rollback, and more than one engineer must edit the same components without sharing a Tempo project.
Step 02
Lockfiles, shared primitives, and a map of which files were last authored in the visual session.
Step 03
CODEOWNERS on generated directories. Wire the app to your real API and IdP. Stop “quick fixes” in the live editor so the tree cannot fork.
Step 04
A second maintainer changes a component and ships it. `main` builds the same routes with nobody logged into the editor.
Step 05
Every PR gets its own preview from the synced app. The Tempo project becomes read-only history; it is no longer required to reproduce the UI.
Read next
These pages are already on the site. Use them to pressure-test the bet before a call.
Tempo to production
Owned Next deploy if you are not ready to leave the visual editor yet.
Migrate from Tempo
When the job is a sequenced cutover of components, auth, and DNS.
Production-ready checklist
The ship gate the Tempo exit is supposed to land on.
Book a discovery call
Thirty minutes with a senior teammate. Honest next steps.
Internals
Stay inside the vibe-coding cluster, or open booking and the Austin money page.
Continue
Shared intents and the other Tempo URLs.
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Stage the handoff while the visual session still sells the product.
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Owners, client-secret leaks, and visual preview vs production before a custom domain.
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Bring the Tempo sync and who can merge the next UI change.
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Studio page if you want a partner moving Tempo source of truth to a repo.
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It blocks publishes and file edits that touch production-bound components and tokens. Exploration moves to a disconnected sandbox project. Hotfixes that once meant “nudge it in the editor” become PRs on the engineering remote. Without a freeze, every stakeholder with editor access can fork what customers run.
Mark them reference-only: useful for historical critique, dangerous as bookmarks, OAuth redirects, or marketing URLs. Replace public materials with the engineering origin. Disable indexing on old share hosts where you control them. Share links that still carry production-like Secrets or real data get rotated and retired—not left as soft launches.
Engineers (and designers working through PR workflows) edit the owned tree in Git, run CI previews from the remote, and promote from there. If a visual exploration is needed, clone a sandbox Tempo project that cannot publish into the production package. Shipping velocity moves to branch + review, not editor + publish.
A clean CI checkout builds and serves the same routes without anyone logged into Tempo. Rollback restores a prior Git deploy, not a republish. New teammates change UI with repo access alone. The production Tempo project’s write rights stay frozen—or the project is archived—so “quick visual fixes” cannot reopen lock-in.
Bring the GitHub sync and who can merge to main. We will say whether source of truth has already moved — or whether the next layout click will fork the product.
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