See it before it goes live

Content created through MCP, the CLI, or an AI agent does not appear anywhere until it is published. That is by design: draft content never leaks. But it creates a real problem the moment you need someone else to look at something before it goes live.

Screenshots go stale. PDFs miss layout issues. Sharing a staging URL exposes everything, not just the one piece you need reviewed.

Smeldr solves this with a time-limited preview link. One link, one piece of content, exactly as it will look when published: real layout, real images, real CSS. The reviewer does not need an account. They do not need to log in. They open the link and see the page.

When the link expires, it stops working. Everything else on the site is unaffected throughout.

What it looks like in practice

Your AI agent creates a draft post. You generate a preview link and send it to your client for approval. They see the actual page: not a mockup, not a screenshot. They confirm it looks right. You publish. The link expires on its own.

The same flow works for a colleague reviewing a technical post before it goes out, or for your own final check on how something renders at the real URL before you commit to publishing it.

The link is narrowly scoped

A preview link works for one piece of content only. A link for one post does not grant access to any other draft on the site. An expired link is rejected. Archived content does not get a preview: archiving is intentional and final.

The guarantee holds: only published content is visible by default. Preview links are a time-limited, narrowly scoped exception, not a bypass of that model.

Works from wherever you manage content

Generate a preview link from the CLI, from an MCP call, or as a step in an agent workflow. The link is valid for 12 hours by default, configurable up to whatever window fits your review process.

*See Content lifecycle for how Draft, Scheduled, Published, and Archived states work.*