From a Single Prompt to Full Deployment | Trae 2.0: SOLO is All You Need
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Evin
2025-08-01
In today’s digital age, transforming a creative spark into a functional software product remains a complex and costly endeavor. The “impossible triangle” of scope, time, and cost in traditional software development constantly limits the pace of innovation. We can’t help but wonder: is there a way to make software development as simple and direct as a conversation?
Have you ever found yourself juggling multiple browser tabs? Writing a Product Requirements Document (PRD) with ChatGPT, using another agent for research, another AI coding tool for execution, and perhaps yet another for review and testing. What should be a seamless development experience ends up feeling like managing a team of AI assistants you’ve never met.
And you end up repeating everything to each one of them.
AI agents are powerful. They excel at solving problems in isolation. But it still feels fragmented and disconnected from the reality of shipping software. How can we build a solution that truly drives software development forward?
The answer is Trae 2.0 SOLO. It’s not just another AI “co-pilot,” but the industry’s first true “Context Engineer.” SOLO is an AI agent capable of thinking, planning, building, and delivering complete features from a single high-level prompt, poised to completely change how we build software.
SOLO is All You Need
Fully Autonomous Workflow: From initial requirements to final deployment, SOLO autonomously handles your entire development workflow.
Complete Transparency: You can monitor its progress through an integrated view of your editor, browser, terminal, and documentation, while SOLO writes code, fixes bugs, and ships features without human intervention.
Built-in Web Developer: SOLO transforms abstract concepts into fully functional websites. It handles everything from drafting a PRD to UI design, code generation, and deploying a working website. It’s built for both professional developers and hobbyist builders.
Core Philosophy: The Power of Context Engineering
SOLO’s power doesn’t come from a “magic prompt” but is rooted in its foundational philosophy: Context Engineering. This means that before writing a single line of code, its primary task is to understand, build, and document the project’s complete context.
For any complex request, SOLO first generates a professional, comprehensive Product Requirements Document (PRD). This AI-generated PRD becomes the “single source of truth” and shared context for the entire project, providing a durable, structured blueprint for all subsequent development.
This “Plan, then Execute” model is what sets SOLO apart from other AI tools.
For example, given a simple user request like, “Create a website for an AI assistant named iWeaver,” traditional AI tools might immediately start generating scattered HTML and CSS code. SOLO, however, pauses to think deeply. It deconstructs this vague idea into a formal software engineering plan, covering everything from the target audience and color schemes to API structures and user flow diagrams.
It is this foundational blueprint, automatically created and fully understood by the AI, that enables SOLO to handle complex iterative requests, such as adding a backend service later on. This isn’t magic; it’s the result of its ability to review and strictly follow the plan it created. This structured methodology is the key to achieving true autonomous development.
End-to-End Autonomous Workflow
Unlike the “request-response” loop of traditional AI tools, SOLO initiates a complete, autonomous, end-to-end workflow:
In this process, the user’s role shifts from a micromanager constantly issuing commands to a “Project Director” who only needs to monitor progress and provide high-level feedback.
SOLO in Action: Building a Modern SaaS Website in Minutes
1. Enter a Prompt
Unlike traditional AI IDEs, SOLO’s dialog box is moved to the side. Let’s input our request:
“Create a website for an AI assistant named iWeaver, including four pages: Home, Features, Solutions, and Pricing. The design style should be modern and simple, like OpenAI, Gemini, and Grok.”
And if you’re tired of typing, you can even try voice input.
2. Generate a Professional PRD
Instead of jumping to the result, SOLO first generates a detailed PRD.
3. Confirm the PRD and Start Building
Once you confirm the PRD, you just click “Ready to Builder!” and enter the “hands-off” phase. SOLO completely takes over the development process. The interface displays a clear progress log in real-time: “Installing and configuring environment,” “Building the Home page,” “Building the Features page,” etc. This transparent workflow eliminates the “black box” of AI development, keeping you fully informed.
4. Automatic Environment Configuration
5. Start Coding Efficiently
From the home page to all other pages, SOLO works tirelessly to code the entire website.
6. Review the Final Result
In a matter of minutes, a fully functional, multi-page, and modernly designed website is presented to you, all without manual intervention.
7. Iterate and Refine: Pixel-Perfect Adjustments and Renaming
Next, let’s test SOLO’s iteration capabilities. We want to change the project name and tweak a UI detail.
Input Prompt: “Make the following adjustments to the documentation and code as instructed:
Change the product name all across the entire website to AI_demo.
The [Get Started] button in the top-right corner of the webpage should have a shake effect when hovered over by the mouse.”
8. See the Final Result
As you can see, the project name has been successfully updated, and the UX hover effect on the top-right button has been implemented.
Even better, with SOLO’s “Select & Edit” feature, you can click on any visual element right in the browser and make changes instantly—text, spacing, layout, colors, you name it. No need to dig through code or wait for implementation. Just select, adjust, and SOLO updates the underlying code for you in real time. Designers can now test user interactions with real functionality, say goodbye to static mockups, and bring ideas to life exactly as envisioned.
9. One-Click Deployment
Once development is complete, a “Deploy” button appears. Clicking it will automatically deploy and publish your site, making it accessible to everyone.
10. Full-Stack Test: Adding a Backend Email Subscription Feature
Currently, we only have a frontend. Let’s test SOLO’s full-stack capabilities by adding an email subscription feature.
Input Prompt: “Great, thanks! Next, I’ll build upon the current foundation by adding backend services and an admin dashboard to implement the following functionality: When users enter their email in the ‘Stay updated’ module on the website’s Home page and click the ‘Subscribe’ button, their submitted email addresses should be visible in the admin dashboard.”
SOLO automatically configures the backend services and handles the front-to-back integration during the iteration process. In the end, a fully functional email subscription system is successfully added.
Going Further: Building a Complex Pet Supplies E-Commerce Site
To further showcase SOLO’s versatility, let’s look at a more complex application. If building a corporate SaaS website proves its design and execution abilities, then building an e-commerce platform tests its capacity to handle real-world business logic.
1. Input E-commerce Site Requirements
“I’m creating a pet supplies e-commerce site inspired by Chewy and Petco, featuring a cheerful design with soft orange and light blue colors. The responsive site will include key pages like a homepage (with banners, new arrivals, and deals), category listings, and product pages (showing product images and information). The clean interface will use custom cartoon icons, subtle animations, and lifestyle product photos, enabling seamless browsing, cart additions, and checkout with shipping options.”
As before, SOLO first generates a professional PRD.
2. Start Building
3. Generate the Final Result
A beautifully designed and fully functional e-commerce prototype is born.
SOLO: A New Development Paradigm
SOLO’s value lies not just in its technical implementation but in its ability to empower different roles within a team, breaking down bottlenecks in traditional workflows.
For Developers: A 10x Productivity Engine
Developers’ pain points include spending vast amounts of time writing boilerplate code, context-switching between services, debugging unfamiliar APIs, and navigating steep learning curves for new frameworks. SOLO frees developers from these tedious tasks. For instance, a backend engineer can simply tell SOLO: “Send an email when a user resets their password, use our queueing system, and include the IP and device info in the email.” SOLO will automatically locate the right place in the codebase, reuse existing modules, write new code, add tests, and submit a clean Pull Request, allowing the developer to focus on higher-level architectural design.
For Product Managers: From Manager to Creator
The pain point for product managers is the long process of turning an idea into a prototype, often while the market window is closing. SOLO completely changes this. A PM wanting to validate an idea can directly tell SOLO: “Add editable social links to the user profile page, including icons for Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.” Within minutes, they get a clickable, interactive prototype to quickly test their hypothesis, transforming them from a resource coordinator into a direct value creator.
For Designers: Bridging the Gap Between Design and Code
Designers’ pain points include the loss of detail regarding spacing, responsive layouts, and interactive animations during the handoff from design to code. SOLO perfectly bridges this gap. A designer can open the SOLO-generated site in a browser, use the “Select & Edit” feature, and give natural language commands like, “Change this button’s color to a soft orange and increase its padding to 16px.” SOLO updates the underlying code in real-time, ensuring the final product is a pixel-perfect realization of the designer’s vision.
For Small Teams/Startups: The Ultimate Force Multiplier
Small teams are often stalled by skill gaps and role dependencies. Backend development might be blocked waiting for UI, or the entire team could get stuck because no one is an expert in configuring a CI/CD pipeline. SOLO acts as a “momentum booster” here. It fills skill gaps, allowing a backend engineer to build a beautiful frontend dashboard or a PM to create an MVP independently. This breaks down internal silos, eliminates bottlenecks, and dramatically increases the team’s execution speed, enabling them to compete with larger, better-resourced organizations.
Conclusion
Trae SOLO opens a new door for everyone with an idea, ensuring technology is no longer a barrier to implementation. Now, it’s time to welcome your first AI-native engineer and let the future of software creation begin with a conversation.
You can experience the final results of both projects at the links below:
SOLO is included in the Pro Plan, with no separate subscription required. You need to be a Pro user and have a SOLO Code (a special code for Pro users to activate SOLO Mode).
Friendly Reminder: When you get a code, please make sure it hasn’t been used. Otherwise, you might find that even after upgrading to Pro, the code is invalid. (And yes, that’s the voice of experience talking.)
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