Edit your site by asking your AI

Most website edits never happen — not because they're hard, but because they mean logging into a builder you half-remember and finding the one screen that controls the thing. On a bernard-hosted site, the edit happens where you already are: in a chat with your own AI. You describe the change; it does the work; you approve the result.

How the whole loop works

1. Connect bernard to your AI (once). Log in to bernard and go to Account → Your AI. Using Claude? Click Connect to Claude, sign in and press Allow — no key to copy. Other assistants that support MCP connectors (like ChatGPT on Business or Enterprise plans) connect by adding your bernard address and signing in the same way; for desktop apps such as Claude Desktop or Cursor, paste the one-time setup prompt instead. Either way it's a one-time step that covers all your sites.
2. Ask for what you want — in your own words, or paste a ready-made prompt. The AI reads your site, makes the changes on a draft, and writes a plain-English note for each one.
3. Approve. The AI sends back a preview link — your site, exactly as it would look. If it's right, press Approve and it's live. If it's not, reject it or ask the AI to adjust, and the live site never changes.

Several requests in one sitting all gather on the same draft, so you can fix the phone number, add a photo and reword a paragraph, then approve the lot together.

What you can ask for

Anything that's part of the site. Fix what's wrong — My phone number is wrong, a typo, an old address. Show new work — Add a new product to my shop page, a new painting, an exhibition announcement. Build something — Start a blog on my site, a new page, an FAQ. Change how it feels — fonts, colours, layout, tone. Be found — better page titles, image descriptions, your town on the right pages. If you'd ask a webmaster for it, ask your AI; the only things off the table are scripts, bookings, payments and login areas, because bernard sites are script-free by design.

The safety story, in one paragraph

Nothing the AI does lands on your live site by surprise: every change goes onto a draft first, and you see it on a preview before it counts. Bernard in your dashboard can't publish at all — your Approve is the only way. Your own connected AI can put a draft live, because it acts with your authority — but only when you ask it to, and every publish is recorded in your history saying what went live and that your assistant did it. The connection key works on all your sites and lasts until you replace it, which you can do any time from Account → Your AI (that's your kill switch). Scripts are stripped on every write, so nothing executable can ever be slipped in. And bernard keeps a full year of history, so any change made in that year can be put back. Nothing here is permanent, and nothing here is hidden — see Is it safe to let an AI edit my site?.