Bootstrapping Umbraco ModelsBuilder on an empty site

The rest of this post was written with Claude AI. Here's the simple problem I seem to get myself into often: I have views that need a strongly typed model, but modelsbuilder hasn't put the models on disk so Umbraco completely fails to start. dotnet run just fails 😱 But I need to get into the backoffice to generate the models; difficult when Umbraco doesn't even run. After I encountered this today, I finally took some time to figure out what the easiest way is to get this fixed. What follows is