Agents build web applications on demand—dashboards, forms, calculators, and custom tools
Apps are agent documents containing executable code that renders as a user interface. Ask your agent to create a dashboard, form, or custom tool, and it writes the code and displays the result. You can see and tweak the code yourself, or ask the agent to make changes.
Saved to the Documents panel, available outside the conversation
Reusable apps, apps you want to publish or share
When you ask the agent to create an app in a conversation, it typically appears as a chat artifact—rendered in a panel to the right of the chat. This is convenient for quick iterations, but the app only exists within that conversation. Each time the agent makes changes, it rewrites the entire artifact.To keep an app around, save it as an agent document:
Ask the agent: “Save this as an agent document”
Or click the menu icon in the artifact panel and choose Save as agent document
Once saved, the app appears in your Documents panel. You can open it anytime, and the agent can show it in any conversation when relevant. Only agent documents can be published—chat artifacts cannot.
Use chat artifacts for exploratory work: “Show me a chart of last month’s sales.” When you have something worth keeping, save it as an agent document.
Like other agent documents, apps can be published with a public URL. Anyone with the link can view and interact with the app.If your app reads from an agent database, you need to publish that database too—otherwise the app won’t have data to display. When publishing a database, you choose what public viewers can do:
Permission
What it allows
Read
View data (required for dashboards and data displays)
Create
Submit new records (enable for public forms)
Update
Modify existing records
Delete
Remove records
For a public feedback form, publish both the app and the database. Enable Read and Create on the database so visitors can submit entries. Leave Update and Delete disabled unless you want the public to modify existing data.
A TV production company used Abundly to build a photographer scheduling system. The agent created its own database and interactive dashboard for visualizing and managing schedules. Staff could view the schedule, and the agent could suggest and apply changes through conversation.
