AI Workflow

AI Workflow

Skill level: Beginner

Two ways to work, depending on whether your assistant can open your project folder. Pick the tab that matches your tool.

• AI editor (recommended)
• Chat assistant

1. Open the whole stella project folder in the tool (the folder with package.json), not a single file or the unzipped download around it. The tool needs that folder to find AGENTS.md and its own rules file.

2. Start the site with npm run dev and keep it open at http://localhost:4321, so you see each change.

3. Save a checkpoint. If you use git, commit. If not, copy the folder. See Editing Content Safely.

4. Ask for one change. Name the file if you know it. The tools listed in the AI Overview load the theme’s rules on their own. If your tool isn’t listed, or its answers ignore the rules, start your first request with “Read AGENTS.md first.” For a bigger job, add “Follow the matching recipe in SKILLS.md.” The Prompt Library has ready-made requests.

5. Review what changed. Every tool shows a list of edited files and the changes (“diff”). Check the list against the review checklist below before you accept.

6. Check the result in the browser, at a narrow window and at /ar/. npm run dev regenerates the config from config.toml when it starts, and picks up saved content changes on its own. Restart it after you change src/config/fonts.json, src/config/language.json, trailingSlash, or anything in [settings.multilingual]: Astro reads those only when it starts. Ask the assistant to run npm run astro-check, or run it yourself.

What To Tell The Assistant

The more of this you give, the less it has to invent.

• The file. “Edit src/content/sections/english/pricing-section.md”, not “edit the pricing”.
• The page. “The section under the hero on /features/.”
• Your product. One paragraph: what it does, who it is for, and its main features. Paste it into every copywriting request.
• Your real figures. Plan prices, limits, seat counts, integrations you actually have. If you don’t give them, tell the assistant to keep the sample values and list them for you to replace.
• The option name. Copy it from the comment next to the key in the section file, or name the prop: “use layout="comparison" on PricingSection”.
• What must not change. “Keep every key, option, and the number of items.”
• The recipe. For bigger jobs, point to SKILLS.md, which most tools don’t read on their own: “Follow the ‘Add or remove a language’ skill in SKILLS.md.”

Review Checklist

Go through this before you accept a change.

• Text was changed in src/content/, src/config/, or src/i18n/, not typed into a component.
• Every language was updated: each language folder under src/content/, src/i18n/<language>.json, and src/config/menu.<language>.json (unless you turned a language off).
• Prices and other numbers are identical in the pricing file of every language, and the comparison table matches the plans.
• Keys, ids, and indentation in Markdown frontmatter, TOML, and JSON still look like the rest of the file.
• A new frontmatter block is actually passed to its section in the route file.
• No new colors like text-[#123456] in components. Stella uses its theme tokens (bg-primary, bg-accent, bg-theme-light, text-dark).
• New or changed CSS uses logical classes (ms, me, ps, pe, text-start), not ml, pr, or text-left.
• No testimonials, customer names, metrics, or prices were made up. Where you didn’t provide them, the assistant kept the sample items and told you which ones to replace.
• npm run astro-check reports no errors.
• The changed pages look right in the browser:
  • at about 375 px wide and at 1280 px
  • in every language (the language switch, or /fr/ or /ar/ in front of the path). Arabic pages should read right to left

astro-check validates only pages, blog, integration, and changelog. Everywhere else a wrong option value passes the check, and src/sections.schema.ts only types the components. Only the page shows those mistakes.

When Something Goes Wrong

• The build or the check fails. Paste the whole error, including the file and line, and ask for the cause and the smallest fix.
• astro-check complains about the config. Run npm run toml:watch once: the check needs .astro/config.generated.json.
• The change does nothing. Ask: “Which file does this text come from on this page? Check the route in src/pages/[...lang]/, the content prop it passes, and the section file in src/content/sections/english/.” The passed block wins over the section file (see How The Theme Is Organized). If the change is in config.toml, restart npm run dev.
• A section disappeared. Check enable in its section content file: enable: false hides it everywhere it is used.
• The tab title on /features/ or /company/ is wrong. Those pages take their title from their first section file (features-section.md, about-us.md) and their description from homepage/<language>/-index.md.
• The layout broke at /ar/. Ask the assistant to replace physical classes with logical ones, and to add rtl: handling for translate-x-*, transform origins, and gradient directions, which don’t flip by themselves.
• It keeps ignoring a rule. Say “Re-read AGENTS.md, section [NAME], then redo this.”