Is my Bolt app ready to launch?

From a security angle, a Bolt app is ready to launch when four things are true: your database answers an anonymous request only from tables you mean to be public, no secret keys are in the browser code, the standard security headers are set, and no private files or source maps are served from the live site.

Bolt gets the app working, but it does not turn these on for you, so they are worth a deliberate check before you share the URL. Each one is a real issue that gets exploited, and each one is visible from the outside.

The fastest way to run the check is to scan the live app. Anything it flags comes with a plain-English fix you can paste to your AI tool, and you can re-scan to confirm it is resolved before you launch.

Run the pre-launch check on your Bolt app

One scan checks the database, keys, headers, and exposed files. Read-only.

What it means

Anyone can read this table without logging in. That can be deliberate, such as reference data or a public directory, or a missing access policy; only you can say which. xlogs read one row's column names and kept none of its values.

Why AI tools cause it

Supabase only limits who can read a table once you turn on Row Level Security (RLS) and write access rules for it. An AI tool can build a working app without doing that, and a table without RLS, or with a policy that lets everyone read, answers anonymous requests.

How xlogs checks it

xlogs finds your public Supabase URL and anon key in your app (the same ones your frontend uses), asks the database for its table list, reads one row from each listed table as an anonymous user, and flags any that return rows. Hosted Supabase refuses that list to public keys, so on a hosted project the result says the tables could not be checked. Read-only: it never writes or deletes.

How to fix it

The goal: Row Level Security is enabled on every table, and each table returns rows only to the users it is meant for: a private table answers no anonymous request, and a table that is public on purpose has a read policy that says so.

  1. Decide whether the affected spot is meant to be readable without a login
  2. If it is not, enable Row Level Security (RLS) on the affected spot and add a policy so only the users allowed to see a row can read it
  3. If it is, keep it public on purpose, and record that decision so a review does not reopen it
  4. Do not switch on a restrictive policy for a table your public pages read without a replacement read policy, or those pages stop working
  5. Re-check that an anonymous request returns what you decided it should
Paste this to your AI coding tool (Lovable, Cursor, Claude Code):
In my app (the spot the scan shows): anyone can read this table; confirm that is deliberate. Please make this true: Row Level Security is enabled on every table, and each table returns rows only to the users it is meant for: a private table answers no anonymous request, and a table that is public on purpose has a read policy that says so. Steps: Decide whether the spot the scan shows is meant to be readable without a login; If it is not, enable Row Level Security (RLS) on the spot the scan shows and add a policy so only the users allowed to see a row can read it; If it is, keep it public on purpose, and record that decision so a review does not reopen it; Do not switch on a restrictive policy for a table your public pages read without a replacement read policy, or those pages stop working; Re-check that an anonymous request returns what you decided it should. Then tell me exactly what you changed, and do not print any secret values back to me or write one into a commit message, a pull request description or a log.

Then verify: After you decide and deploy, xlogs repeats the same anonymous read of each table the database lists and reports what comes back: a table you made private should no longer return rows, and one you keep public still will. If the table list is refused, it says the tables could not be checked.

Common questions

What is the one thing to fix before launching?

Fix an open database first. If Row Level Security is off, launching means publishing a URL that lets anyone read your data. Fix that first, then work through exposed keys, headers, and source exposure.