View code — the payoff
Why. The last item on the rail turns your model into a technical blueprint — a strong starting point for developers.
How. The View code panel presents your model across tabs: data types, an API, on-screen structure, permissions, processes, agents, and deployment. The toolbar groups three things:
- Check — have an AI review, auto-fix, and test the generated code.
- Run app — boot the generated app locally and open it in a new browser tab (see below).
- Export — download just the scaffold, a runnable app with AI-written logic, or the whole Full-Stack project as a zip.
It's scaffolding, not the finished software — a base that developers extend by hand.
Run app — see the outcome before you export
Click ▶ Run app to actually use the software your model describes, before you commit to it. Kiln starts the generated app on your own machine and opens it in a new tab: a working admin UI with a screen per entity, typed create forms, the actions (commands) you modelled, and a live event log — backed by a real database, so records you create persist and commands fire real events.
This closes the loop: describe → adjust the model → run it → see the result → export. It needs the local service running (you'll see "Server" storage in the sidebar) and Node ≥ 22, and it works fully offline — no account, no cloud, no build step. The preview is a fast, dependency-light stand-in for the polished client in the export; use Export → Full-Stack when you're ready to hand it to developers.
The exported repo carries a complete model.json — every layer of your business as one versionable
document. It's the durable record the generated code (and any regeneration) is built from. Commit it to
git; import it to recall and iterate. See Protecting your fixes.