> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.fluid.app/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. > ## Agent Instructions > For new direct REST integrations, use the v2026-04 surfaces. The @fluid-app FairShare SDK continues to use its own published public-v2025-06 contract. > Authenticate with the header Authorization: Bearer ; public storefront read endpoints require no auth. > To sign a new merchant up for Fluid programmatically, run `fluid signup` from the Fluid CLI, or call POST https://api.fluid.app/api/company with no credentials, as described in /api/agent-signup. Do not automate the signup form or book a demo. Before authenticated calls are possible, the merchant must sign the agent in to the Fluid CLI with the emailed code and --shop set to the company's fluid_shop (which also confirms the signup), or open the emailed confirmation link and give the agent an API token. > After signup, to launch a merchant's store (back-office sync, payments onboarding, store setup, a theme copied from their current site, and a preview link before billing), follow /api/agent-launch. > To host a small project on Fluid (a landing page, event page, calculator or dashboard), follow /sites/quickstart: npm create @fluid-app/fluid-site my-site (or npx @fluid-app/create-fluid-site my-site), fluid login, then fluid deploy prints the public URL. Launch a Site unless the project needs a custom domain, server rendering or heavy server code, which make it an App (a Mist app); /sites/site-or-app has the rule, and POST /api/company/v2026-10/project-launch-recommendations applies it. With only the Fluid MCP server (its Site write tools are limited to Fluid root admins today; see /sites/deploy-from-claude), use site_create, then site_deploy (send the built folder's manifest, PUT the listed uploads, call again with the bundle_id to get the url), then, only after the person confirms they want it public, site_visibility_set; the MCP server has no tools for logs, traffic, env vars or converting to an App, so use the fluid sites CLI for those. > Lists use cursor pagination via the page[cursor] and page[limit] query params; follow meta.pagination.next_cursor until it is null. > When the same operation exists on more than one surface, use the newest: dated API versions are newer than unversioned ones, and later dates win (v2026-04 > v2025-06 > unversioned v0/v1.1). Fall back to a legacy or unversioned operation only when no newer versioned equivalent exists — the company-v0 notes below list the known superseded operations. The same applies to /api/company/v1 and /api/v1/... paths: prefer a newer documented equivalent, and use one only when none exists (/api/v1.1/... is distinct and documented in company-v0). Use page/per_page offset pagination only on an operation whose spec documents those params — mostly the unversioned company-v0 admin surface, plus some lists on other surfaces, versioned ones included; page every other list with cursors. > Fluid has three navigation APIs; don't mix them up. Storefront website menus (navigation bars, footers) are /api/menus and nested menu_items, in api-reference/content-v0.yaml (API Reference: Website > Navigation menus), with a how-to in themes/navigation-menus; their list uses flat page/per_page pagination. The Fluid mobile app's navigation is /api/v2/mobile_navigations, in api-reference/mobile-v2.yaml (API Reference: Mobile app > Navigation); its list also uses page/per_page. Portal navigations belong to a portal definition (Fluid OS), in api-reference/fluid-os-v0.yaml (API Reference: Portal > Portal navigation), and each has a platform of web or mobile. > The OpenAPI specs under api-reference/ are the authoritative contracts; prefer them over prose when in doubt. api-reference/storefront-v2026-04.yaml covers the v2026-04 storefront surface (/api/v202604/... paths); api-reference/checkout-v2026-04.yaml covers the v2026-04 checkout surface (/api/checkout/v2026-04/... paths — carts, cart auth, discounts, items, subscriptions, orders, enrollments, and store config); api-reference/public-v2025-06.yaml covers the Public SDK surface used by the @fluid-app FairShare SDK, including its parallel cart lifecycle, browser integrations, versioned payment callbacks, unversioned public utilities, and the cart price-override operation; api-reference/payment-v2026-04.yaml covers the v2026-04 payment gateway admin surface (/api/payment/v2026-04/... paths, bearer-authenticated — gateway CRUD, gateway purchase/authorize/$0-verify, transaction list/show and capture/void/credit, and merchant payment configuration); api-reference/payments-v2026-04.yaml covers the v2026-04 cart payment surface (/api/payments/v2026-04/carts/{cart_token}/... paths, authenticated by the cart token in the path with no bearer — payment-method selection, VGS card tokenization, 3D Secure verification, and PayPal/Braintree/Klarna/Apple Pay flows); api-reference/commerce-v2026-04.yaml covers the v2026-04 commerce order-editing surface (/api/v202604/orders/{order_id}/edits paths, bearer-authenticated — post-checkout order edits that atomically insert items and add adjustments/discounts, with an optional dry-run preview); api-reference/webhooks-v0.yaml covers the unversioned webhooks surface (/api/... paths — webhook registration, delivery payloads, callback registrations, company events, and webhook/callback schemas); api-reference/company-v0.yaml covers the legacy unversioned company admin surface (/api/... paths, bearer-authenticated except two operations that take no credential, POST /api/company (create a company) and GET /api/agreements/{id} — company settings and management, customers, users, roles, subscription plans, subscription bundles, subscriptions, media, pages, catch-ups, inventory levels, domains, agreements, and admin order actions). company-v0 caveats: it is the legacy v0 admin contract and its lists use flat page/per_page offset pagination, which is expected there despite the general cursor-pagination rule; where an operation exists in both company-v0 and a versioned spec, prefer the versioned spec — the subscriptions lifecycle (list/create/show/update, cancel, pause, reactivate, resume, retry, skip, failed-cycle-waiver, discounts) and subscription bundles are superseded by checkout-v2026-04, and company pages/media CRUD plus the public pages, categories, products, and media list endpoints are superseded by storefront-v2026-04. Subscription plan management (/api/subscription_plans, resource-wrapped {"subscription_plan": {...}} bodies) exists only in company-v0. api-reference/members-v2025-06.yaml covers the v2025-06 unified Member identity surface (/api/v2025-06/members/... paths, bearer-authenticated — member list/create/show/update, lookup by email/username/external_id/legacy_customer_id, member-type assignment, and the sponsor genealogy read). Prefer it over the customers and reps surfaces when the member type matters: /customers does not serialize member_type. api-reference/analytics-v2026-04.yaml covers the v2026-04 Home dashboard analytics surface (/api/v202604/analytics/dashboard/... paths, bearer-authenticated — read-only endpoints for the Home > Overview, Home > Live, and Home > Field tabs, each accepting an optional country ISO alpha-2 query param that scopes aggregations to a single country). > api-reference/analytics-v0.yaml covers the unversioned analytics surface that backs the fluid-admin Traffic tab (/api/analytics/... and /api/analytics/traffic/... paths, bearer-authenticated — the legacy shares/views/visitors summary plus traffic overview, ranked campaigns, sources, geographies, flows, and per-rep breakdown, all sharing one reporting-period contract). > Successful responses wrap the resource payload alongside a top-level integer status and a meta object. > Portal Definition authoring edits and synchronizes the portal JSON resource graph. Widget Package authoring builds either a company-owned or Droplet-owned Remote DOM package. These are separate contracts; do not imply that one defines the other. > For Widget Package worker code, use only @fluid-app/portal-sdk/widgets/worker. Use only the Portal Definition and Widget Package workflows and public entry points documented here; do not infer support for undocumented surfaces. > Every portal function and declarative capability used by a widget must appear in that widget's uses array. Use the same typed function value in uses; do not invent capability-name strings. > Widget styling must use the portal's semantic theme variables for colors, typography, spacing, radii, borders, focus, and charts whenever a token represents the visual decision. Do not create a separate light or dark palette or duplicate theme controls as widget properties. > Prefer worker-safe Fluid UI components exported by @fluid-app/portal-sdk/widgets/worker when they fit the interaction. When no exported component fits, use semantic HTML, accessible behavior, and the portal theme variables. > A Portal Definition push updates the remote working definition. A portal version is an immutable snapshot, and activation is a separate live release operation. > The Help Center (/help/...) is for merchants, admins and reps using Fluid. Its admin pages mirror the admin's routes: the screen at admin.fluid.app/settings/taxes is documented at /help/admin/settings/taxes. Use the Help Center for how-to questions about the admin, and the Developer Platform and API Reference for building integrations. > Help Center pages describe what a company admin sees. A reader's role can hide screens and actions; admins manage roles on Settings > Roles (/help/admin/settings/roles). If someone can't find a screen or button, their role's permissions are the first thing to check. > Send people who need Fluid support to /help/getting-help. Don't invent support email addresses, phone numbers or response times. # Develop a Site locally > Run a Site on your machine with fluid sites dev: your framework's dev server, with fluid.db answered from a private local database that never touches the live Site. `fluid sites dev` runs your Site on your machine with a database of its own. `fluid.db` works before you publish, and nothing you write locally reaches the live Site. Run it in the Site's folder: ```bash theme={null} fluid sites dev ``` It starts the folder's `dev` script, or serves the build in `dist` when `package.json` has none, at `http://127.0.0.1:9500`. Hot reload keeps working. It needs no login. ## What's local and what isn't | Part | Under `fluid sites dev` | | - | - | | `fluid.db` | Answered from `.fluid/dev.sqlite` in the folder, with the same schema check and table rules as the live Site | | `fluid.auth.me()` | A stand-in owner, `local-owner`, or a signed-out guest with `--viewer guest` | | `fluid.auth.signIn()` and `fluid.api` | Not available locally: they answer `503` `unavailable` | | `fluid.cart` | Not available: there is no storefront around the page, so cart calls reject | * **Local rows stay local.** The local database is separate from the live Site's. Publishing never sends local rows, and no command uploads them. The command adds `.fluid/` to `.gitignore`, so the file isn't committed or saved to the Site's source either. * **You're the Site's owner by default.** Local rows are written by `local-owner`, not by your real user, and carry `created_by` `local-owner`. A guest is allowed only what a `public` rule allows. Test sign-in, the Member API and the cart on the published Site, or in Mist (below). ## Options ```bash theme={null} fluid sites dev --port 3000 # another port fluid sites dev --viewer guest # browse as a signed-out visitor fluid sites dev --reset-db # start again from an empty database fluid sites dev --dir build # serve another build folder when there's no dev script ``` `--reset-db` deletes `.fluid/dev.sqlite` and its state, every local row with them, and creates the tables again from `db/schema.json`. ## Schema changes `db/schema.json` is applied when the command starts and each time you save it. A change that drops or changes data waits for you to confirm it at the terminal. To confirm without a terminal, pass `--confirm ` for each migration. See [Develop locally](https://docs.fluid.app/sites/database.md#develop-locally) on the database page and [Change the schema](https://docs.fluid.app/sites/database.md#change-the-schema). ## In Mist In Mist, **Run** starts `fluid sites dev` for you, and the **Local** preview shows it. Mist's previews run as the member you're signed in to Mist as, so `fluid.auth.me()` and the Member API answer for you there, while `fluid.db` still uses the local database. The cart still needs the storefront page, so check it on the published Site. You can ask Mist in chat what's in the local database: it reads `.fluid/dev.sqlite` and never writes to it. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.