Configuring Genesis Start
This page covers how to add Genesis Start to a project and how to change the way it runs your application. Everything here applies both to the desktop window and to headless mode.
This page covers how to add Genesis Start to a project and how to change the way it runs your application. Everything here applies both to the desktop window and to headless mode.
Genesis Start runs and previews your application on your local machine. It bootstraps the database, syncs your project's configuration, and starts and stops the application's processes, utilities and Web UI.
In headless mode, Genesis Start runs without opening a window, and you drive it with its REST API, or let an AI agent drive it over MCP. Everything you would normally do by clicking (bootstrapping, starting and stopping processes, running scripts, checking status, switching process profiles) is done with HTTP requests instead.