Quick Start
Your coding agent deploys your app to Telbase. You install the Telbase CLI, sign in, add the Telbase skills to your app's folder, and ask the agent to deploy.
Install the CLI
npm install -g telbaseThe CLI needs Node.js. Apps on Google Cloud Run also need the gcloud CLI installed; Telbase runs it with its own settings and leaves yours untouched.
Sign in
telbase loginThe CLI opens a browser for device authentication. Confirm the code shown in your terminal. You stay signed in on this machine.
Add the Telbase skills
In your app's folder:
telbase skill install # Claude Code
telbase skill install --for cursor # Cursor
telbase skill install --for windsurf # Windsurf
telbase skill install --for agents-md # Codex and other agents that read AGENTS.mdThe skills tell the agent how to deploy with Telbase: which provider suits the app, the commands, and the known fixes. Run the same command again to update them.
Ask your agent to deploy
Deploy this app to TelbaseFollowing the skills, the agent:
- registers the app with
telbase apps create, on Vercel or Google Cloud Run, with a PostgreSQL or SQLite database if the app needs one; - creates the database schema and loads the data the app ships with;
- sets the app's environment variables;
- deploys with the Vercel CLI or gcloud through Telbase (
telbase vercel,telbase gcloud), so you need no Vercel or Google account; - checks the app at its Telbase URL and reports back what it did.
Your app is live
Each app is served at its Telbase URL, https://<name>.telbase.ai. To see an app's URL, its deploy command and its database commands:
telbase apps list
telbase apps info my-appShare with your team
Require sign-in at the app's Telbase URL (every plan):
# Only these emails and email domains get in
telbase apps protect my-app --allow-domain yourcompany.com --allow [email protected]Add a custom domain (Starter and above):
telbase domain add app.yourcompany.com --project my-appRedeploy
Made changes? Ask the agent to deploy again. It runs the app's deploy command, which telbase apps info prints.
Next Steps
- AI Agent Setup — the skills for each coding agent
- Databases — migrations, pgvector, and more
- Claude Code — the skills and the MCP server
- CLI Reference — every command
- Guides & Tutorials — the edit-deploy-test loop, writing great prompts, and more