Guv documentation

Guv is a hosting platform for web apps, APIs, workers, cron jobs and databases. It runs in London, bills in pounds, and is designed so that people who have never configured a server, and the AI agents they work with, can ship safely.

Start here

• Quickstart: your first deploy in about three minutes.
• How Guv fits together: workspaces, projects, environments and services.
• Deploy with your AI: connect Claude Code, Cursor or Codex through MCP, with tokens that cannot touch production without you.

Keep it safe and affordable

• Safety Centre: what the A to E grade means and how to raise it.
• Spend and caps: how billing works and how hard caps protect you.
• Custom domains: point your own domain at Guv, with certificates handled for you.
• Moving to Guv: import from Heroku, Railway, Render, Fly or Docker Compose.

Reference

• guv.yaml: every field of the manifest that describes your project as code.
• CLI: every guv command and its exit codes.
• API: the same API the dashboard, CLI and MCP server use. There are no hidden endpoints.
• Error codes: each error, what it means and how to fix it.

For AI assistants

Every page here is also available as Markdown: add .md to the address, or use the View as Markdown link under each title. A summary for language models is at /llms.txt, and the whole documentation as one file is at /llms-full.txt.