Install site apps without GitHub or a terminal

If you only use a chat app such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, here's the honest picture. Installing site apps needs an AI agent that can run commands, such as Claude Code. How to get one in a few minutes, the simplest setup with no terminal of your own, and what isn't available yet. Checked: Claude Code setup, Claude Code desktop and cloud sessions docs, Cloudflare temporary accounts and Drop changelog checked 2026-11-02.

The honest answer: a chat-only AI (one that answers in text but can't run programs) can explain everything here, but can't install the apps. Installing means running the Cloudflare tool (Wrangler) and changing files, so you need an AI agent that can run commands, such as Claude Code. You don't need to know how to use a terminal yourself: the agent does that part.

For the agent: if you're in a chat without a shell, say this plainly, then help the owner get set up with one of the options below. Don't try to have them paste commands one by one into a terminal they don't know.

Option 1: Claude Code desktop app (no terminal needed)

The Claude desktop app includes Claude Code with a normal window, no terminal. Download it from claude.com/download (macOS, Windows; Linux has its own instructions).

Plan: Claude Code needs a paid Claude plan (Pro or higher) or a Console account. The free Claude plan doesn't include it.
Setup, about 5–10 minutes: install, sign in, open a new folder for the site (or the site's folder if it has one), then ask: "Run the start-here playbook from the site apps store and set up my site." The agent can install Node.js and Wrangler for you, with your OK.
What you'll still do yourself: create a Cloudflare account and click Allow when the agent connects to it (it tells you exactly what to click).

Source: Claude Code setup (the desktop app tip and the plan requirement).

Option 2: Claude Code in the browser (cloud sessions)

claude.ai/code runs Claude Code on a cloud computer, from your browser or the Claude mobile app. Nothing to install.

Plan: Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, or Enterprise with the right seat.
Needs GitHub: cloud sessions work on a GitHub repository, so you'd create a free GitHub account (github.com/signup) and let the agent create a repository for the site.
Connecting Cloudflare from the cloud: the cloud computer can't open a browser for the usual Cloudflare login. The agent uses Wrangler's device-code login (you open a link on your phone or computer and type a short code), or you add a Cloudflare API token in the environment's settings. Both are in Create a Cloudflare account and connect Wrangler. Not verified: whether the default network settings of a cloud environment let Wrangler reach Cloudflare without changes; if it fails with network errors, allow the Cloudflare domains in the environment's network settings or use Option 1.

Source: Claude Code cloud sessions.

Option 3: Claude Code in a terminal

If you're happy to paste one line into a terminal: curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash on macOS or Linux, irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex in Windows PowerShell. Then open a terminal in the site's folder and type claude. Same plan requirement as Option 1. Other agents that run commands (Codex, Cursor's agent) also work with the store.

No GitHub? That's fine

GitHub is optional for Options 1 and 3. The agent can create the site in a folder on your computer and publish it straight to Cloudflare with Wrangler. GitHub only adds automatic deploys and a history online, and you can add it later. See Start a site on Cloudflare (Route B).

What happens once you have an agent

It runs Start here to see what you have.
If there's no Cloudflare account yet, it can even publish the site first with a temporary account and give you a link: open it within 60 minutes and sign up (free) to keep the site (Cloudflare: deploy without an account).
It installs the free apps and shows you the first form submission arriving in your site's admin.

Not available yet

A hosted installer (you click a button on our store, sign in to Cloudflare, and the apps install without any agent) isn't available. It's an idea under consideration; it would need your permission to act in your Cloudflare account for that session, which our current rules don't allow.
Cloudflare Drop (drag a folder into the browser) publishes static files only. The site apps need a small Worker, so they don't run on a Drop site (Cloudflare Drop changelog).
Chat apps with connectors: connecting the store to a chat app lets it browse apps and playbooks, but it still can't run the installer.