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Pre-launch toolbar

For private projects, the pre-launch toolbar gives you a quick way to confirm your project is private, invite people to access the project while it's private, run audits for SEO/GEO, performance, and security, and make the project public when you're ready.

The pre-launch toolbar is available on Credit-based Free, Personal, and Pro plans and is being gradually rolled out.

The toolbar appears only while the project is private, and only for people who are allowed to view it. It stops appearing when you make the project public.

What the toolbar does

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The pre-launch toolbar has three controls:

  1. Share: Allows you to add members to your project so they can collaborate and review, whether the project is private or public. Note that adding members requires a Pro plan. Learn more about sharing a private project.
  2. Pre-launch tools: three audits that run with Agent Runners:
    • SEO / GEO audit checks that search engines and AI assistants can find and read your project.
    • Performance check looks at how fast your pages load and what is slowing them down.
    • Security audit looks for common weak spots, such as out-of-date dependencies or open settings.
  3. Make public: opens the same flow as Make public in the Netlify UI.

When you select an audit, a new tab in your browser opens with a prompt in Agent Runners open. You can edit the prompt to customize it before choosing to run it. Each audit is an ordinary agent run and consumes credits accordingly.

Hide or minimize the toolbar

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The toolbar appears while the project is private, and you can put it out of the way for yourself: minimize it to a small pill, then either restore the toolbar from the pill or remove it from the project entirely. The choice is stored only in local storage on your browser, and does not affect your team members.

Netlify injects the toolbar on our edge servers, so it arrives with the page and your source, build, and dependencies are untouched. It makes no network requests and holds no credentials.

Troubleshooting

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Here are potential reasons why the toolbar may not appear:

  1. The rollout hasn’t reached the project. The toolbar is rolling out gradually, so a project that qualifies may not have it yet.
  2. The project is public. The toolbar appears only while a project is private. Check project visibility.
  3. You dismissed it in this browser. Dismissals are per browser and per domain, so try another browser or a private window.
  4. The plan doesn’t include it. The pre-launch toolbar is available on the Credit-based Free, Personal, and Pro plans only. It is not available on legacy or Enterprise plans.
  5. A Content Security Policy is blocking it. See Content Security Policy blocks the toolbar.
  6. The toolbar also does not appear on a project protected by team login or SSO.

More resources

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