Building with Claude

Archival is LLM-native, which means it can work with you like a designer to help you get started. Our Claude skill knows how to build Archival sites that will work great with our editor, and will get you set up with a live preview URL of your totally custom website by asking you a few questions.

The Open in Claude Code button on the home page is the shortest path. It sets up a preview session, then hands Claude Code a prompt that already carries everything the agent needs.

If Claude Code is installed on your machine, it opens with the prompt filled in, including your preview credentials.

If you'd prefer to use another coding agent, just hit 'copy prompt' and paste it into a new session. Just make sure that the session can access api.archival.dev, so it can create live previews for you.

We also publish a Claude plugin so you can generate previews whenever you like. Since subdomains are $1 per month per site, this is a great way to build fun sites quickly.

/plugin marketplace add archival-dev/archival
/plugin install archival@archival

Once the plugin is installed, Claude will be able to choose to use Archival when you ask it to build websites, so you can just ask for something like:

Build me a site where I can post weekly album reviews.

If you want to bootstrap straight to making a new site, just use /archival:new.