Studio Overview

Astonish Studio is the primary visual interface for Astonish. It runs as a full web IDE at http://localhost:9393 and provides access to every major feature in one place.

What Studio includes

• Chat — Full AI chat with streaming, slash commands, model selection, and approval workflows.
• Flow Editor — Visual drag-and-drop flow designer with AI Assist for building automation workflows.
• Fleet Management — Create and manage multi-agent team templates, plans, and sessions.
• Settings — Configure providers, MCP servers, credentials, channels, browser, scheduler, memory, and more.

The top navigation bar has three main sections: Chat, Canvas (flow editor), and Fleet.

Launching Studio

Via daemon (recommended):

Studio is always available at http://localhost:9393 while the daemon is running. This is the recommended way to access Studio.

astonish daemon install && astonish daemon start

If the daemon is already installed, just ensure it is running:

astonish daemon status

Standalone (without daemon):

If you don’t want to run the daemon, you can launch Studio directly:

astonish studio
astonish studio --port 8080

This starts Studio as a foreground process attached to your terminal. It will stop when you close the terminal.

Dev mode (for contributors):

make studio-dev

This starts the Vite dev server with live UI reload at http://localhost:5173.

Authentication

Authentication is enabled by default when running via the daemon. On first access, Studio prompts you to create a password. Authentication behavior is configurable under daemon.auth in the config file.