Let your AI assistant set up Studio

Get Studio on your computer

• On Windows: in Maxisnap, open Settings → Account → Maxisnap Studio setup wizard, click “Get started”, then “Download dashboard”. Maxisnap saves the Studio ZIP to your Downloads folder and opens that folder.
• On a Mac: in Maxisnap, open Settings → Welcome & Help → Studio Setup Guide, click “Get Started”, then “Download Dashboard”. Maxisnap saves the Studio ZIP to your Downloads folder.

Extract the ZIP. On Windows, right-click it and choose “Extract All”. On a Mac, double-click it.

Copy the location of the extracted folder; you paste it in step 3. On Windows, right-click the folder and choose “Copy as path”. On a Mac, select the folder and press Option+Command+C.

The instructions file for AI assistants is in that folder:

AGENTS.md

Lock in your branding, if you like

Double-click “Maxisnap Studio - Start Here.html”, design your logo, colours and fonts, and click “Lock in my branding”. Your assistant uses it. You can also skip this and change the branding later in your dashboard under Branding.

Copy the instructions

Copy these instructions, replace the line in angle brackets with your Studio folder, and paste them into your assistant.

Set up Maxisnap Studio for me.

Maxisnap Studio is a self-hosted dashboard for the screenshots and screen recordings the Maxisnap desktop app uploads: a private library plus branded share links. It comes in two editions with the same features: a PHP app for ordinary web hosting, and a Cloudflare Worker that uses R2 and D1.

Everything is in this folder on my computer:
  <the folder where I extracted the Studio download>

Start by reading AGENTS.md in that folder. It explains both editions, the exact install steps, what must stay private, and how to check the result.
If I locked in my branding, it is in snaps.zip; AGENTS.md says what to do if it is missing.

Goal: Work out with me whether the PHP edition (my web hosting) or the Cloudflare Workers edition fits my setup, then install it.

Rules:
- Ask me before you upload, deploy, or change anything on a server or in an account, and tell me exactly what you will change.
- Never delete, overwrite or rename existing website files, DNS records, Workers, buckets or databases. Studio only adds new things.
- Keep keys and passwords out of files you create and out of chat transcripts where you can.
- When it works, give me the Studio address and the Admin key so I can connect the Maxisnap app (on Windows, Settings, Account, Maxisnap Studio setup wizard, step 4; on a Mac, Settings, Welcome & Help, Studio Setup Guide, “I already have a dashboard”).

Answer your assistant’s questions

1. Tell it where your website is: on web hosting (cPanel, hPanel, Plesk and so on), on Cloudflare, or nowhere yet. With no website, the Cloudflare edition is the safe choice.
2. For web hosting, it tells you what to upload and where, or uploads it for you if you give it access to your hosting.
3. For Cloudflare, it asks you for a Cloudflare API token. Create the token in Cloudflare under My Profile → API Tokens with the permissions your assistant lists, and paste it into the terminal yourself.

See the Cloudflare account, storage and token steps in the free Cloudflare account guide.

Check its plan before you say yes

Before a Cloudflare deploy, your assistant shows you the plan. “Will create” lists one Worker, one R2 bucket and one D1 database, and “Will not touch” lists everything else in the account. On web hosting, it tells you which folder it will add. Say yes only when the list looks right.

Connect Maxisnap and try it

When it works, your assistant gives you your Studio’s address and its Admin key. Keep the key somewhere safe, like your password manager.

• Maxisnap for Windows: open Settings → Account → Maxisnap Studio setup wizard, click “Get started”, then “Next” until step 4, “Connect Maxisnap”. Paste your Studio’s address and key, click “Test connection”, then “Next”, then “Finish & Save” on the last page. The Admin key from setup works, and so does an upload code from People & access in your dashboard.
• Maxisnap for Mac: open Settings → Welcome & Help → Studio Setup Guide and choose “I already have a dashboard”. Paste your Studio’s address and key, click “Test Connection”, then “Next”, then “Finish & Save”.

Capture something and click “Upload” in the editor. On Windows, Ctrl+Alt+7 captures a region and uploads it straight away. The share link lands on your clipboard.

Next steps: add your team in the dashboard under People & access (everyone gets their own code and role), and change your logo or colours any time under Branding.