Tempo · Visual session is not production
Before campaigns hit Tempo-emitted UI, close the gaps the visual editor does not advertise: share-link exposure, missing write freeze, token drift between tool and repo, Secrets pasted into previews, and ambiguous ownership of who can publish. You keep the design-proven surface; you stop treating a share link as a soft launch.
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CodeCross LLC scopes tempo-mvp-hardening to share-link exposure, missing write freeze, token drift, Secrets in preview, and owner ambiguity. Operators lock who can publish, seal preview env, and gate production deploys on token parity with eng Git. Done before campaigns when share links carry scrubbed data only, production Secrets never appear in the visual editor, and a named maintainer owns each critical route.
What a Tempo share still hides
Hardening starts after sync. Freeze layout writes, name who owns each generated component, strip secrets the visual AI left in the client, and refuse to treat a Tempo share as live.
Orphan files that exist only in the last visual generation are a snapshot. If nobody can point to the PR that last changed checkout or settings, you do not have ownership.
Public env vars pasted from Tempo chat, API keys embedded “to make the demo work,” and service-role keys mirrored into browser calls the sync scaffolded for speed.
Visual previews share production secrets or paying-customer DNS. A Tempo host is a review artifact; only the production project receives production env.
Auth callbacks, webhook signatures, error-tagged releases, and a rollback that does not regenerate UI in Tempo all have to be true first.
The sync harden we actually run
Keep the generated UI. Do not regenerate it in Tempo. Production env and domain attach only to the production project.
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Every route and shared primitive lives in the org repo and changes only through review. Orphan Tempo-only files are imported or deleted.
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Rotate anything that ever appeared in a Tempo prompt or public share before the production project sees real sessions.
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Disable indexing on Tempo preview hosts. Distinct OAuth allowlists. Never point paying-customer DNS at a Tempo share.
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Clean CI checkout without an open Tempo session, callbacks on the custom domain, webhooks on the production project, and a previous-deployment restore that does not reopen the editor.
How to
A share link is not production. Success is production env and domain attached only to the production project, with Tempo write access locked.
Step 01
Files that exist only in the last visual generation are imported under ownership or deleted. Point to the PR that last changed checkout and settings.
Step 02
Hunt public env pastes, demo-embedded API keys, and service-role keys mirrored into browser calls. Rotate anything that appeared in a Tempo prompt or public share.
Step 03
Separate projects or at least production env plus production domain. Preview gets a scrubbed dataset. Disable indexing on Tempo hosts.
Step 04
Callbacks list only the custom domain. Signatures verify against the production project—not a Tempo share.
Step 05
Production build from a clean CI checkout, Tempo write access locked, error tracking on production releases, previous-deployment restore that does not regenerate UI in Tempo. Domain cutover is last.
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Share links leak hostnames into Slack, email, and search; they often carry preview Secrets or real-looking data; and recipients assume the link is “the product.” Disable indexing where possible, use scrubbed datasets, and never point Auth callbacks or customer DNS at a share host. A critique link is not a soft launch.
Without a freeze, anyone with visual-editor access can change production-bound UI after you thought handoff was done. Stakeholder “tiny tweaks” fork the tree from eng Git and reintroduce token drift. Freeze production-bound publishes—or move them behind review—before buying traffic.
Diff the token package in Git against the editor’s current values; fail CI on hard-coded colors/spacing outside the package. Hunt preview env and client bundles for keys that ever appeared in a share link or editor session; rotate them. Confirm production env is injected only by the engineering host—not copied from a Tempo preview panel.
Name a maintainer for each critical route and shared primitive in the eng repo. Document whether Tempo publish, Git sync, or PR review is allowed to change those files—and default to PR-only for prod. If two people disagree about where the checkout screen lives, you do not have ownership; you have a design snapshot.
Bring the synced tree and who can open Tempo. We will name owners, rotate client leaks, and say when a share link is still pretending to be live.
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