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Route · Kiln Cloud

We run the worker. You keep your repo and host.

Kiln Cloud is the middle route: we run the two infrastructure pieces, our shared sign-in worker and our shared GitHub App, so you never deploy or maintain them. You keep your own GitHub repo and your own host, exactly as on self-host. Nothing to run, and your content still lives in your repo, yours to take.

$4.99 / mo per site. Switch to self-hosting any time; your repo never moves.
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Who runs what.

The two pieces you'd run on self-host move to us. Everything that holds your content stays with you.

We run
Auth workerKiln, shared
GitHub AppKiln, on your repo
Google clientKiln, shared
Still yours
Site repoYou
HostYou
Editor JSIn your repo
Optional
Page annotationsYou or your AI
Members areaIn your repo

How we get your site on.

Honest version: Kiln Cloud does not have a self-serve installer yet. Putting a site on our shared worker is a step only we can take, so for now we onboard your site by hand. It is quick, and it is on us.

No one-click signup yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. Adding your site to the shared worker means allowlisting your site's origin and installing our kiln-cms app on your repo. Allowlisting is gated to whoever runs the shared worker, which is us. A self-serve add-site flow is the next thing we're building; until it ships, the steps below are how onboarding actually happens.

1Get your site Kiln-ready and hosted

This part is the same as self-host and you do it yourself: push your static site to a GitHub repo, connect a host that auto-deploys on each commit (Cloudflare Pages recommended, free and commercial-friendly), and annotate what is editable with data-cms attributes plus the two script tags. An AI can do the annotation from KILN_PROMPT.md. The self-host steps spell this out.

2Send us the repo and the site URL

Open an onboarding issue or email us with your repo and your live site URL. We allowlist your origin on the shared worker and send you the install link for our kiln-cms GitHub App.

3Install our app on your repo, one click

You click Install, choose Only select repositories, and pick your site's repo. That is the only button you press. Our app can only ever touch the repo you select. You point your site's config at our shared worker (we give you the one line), and you're on.

4Sign in and edit

Visit yoursite.com/kiln and sign in. Editing, publishing, history, drafts, scheduled publishing, and Google sign-in for your editors all run against our worker. You did not deploy or maintain anything.

The GitHub App, plainly: on Kiln Cloud it is our shared kiln-cms app installed on your repo, not a fresh app you registered. That is the one thing that differs from self-host, where the app is yours.

You run none of the plumbing, and still own your content.

We run the worker and the app; your repo and host stay yours; your pages are plain HTML you can take anywhere. Want zero setup, hosting included? Fully managed runs everything. Want to run it all yourself for free? Self-host. Ask us to onboard your site.