Custom apps

Besides documents and sheets, the agent can create apps: small interactive tools — a calculator, a dashboard, a data explorer — that run inside your workspace.

How to ask for an app

Describe what you want it to do, the way you’d tell someone:

Build me a tool to work out the sale price from the cost and the margin.

The agent may ask you a couple of things to understand better, and then builds it. The app becomes one more workspace, with its own conversation.

The app editor

When you open the app, you see three parts:

• The chat, on the left: you keep asking for changes there.
• The app’s view, on the right: the app running, ready to use.
• The right pane’s tabs: the app’s view, Code and Connections. The Code tab shows the app’s code, and Connections the tools it uses.

How changes work

When you ask for a change in the chat, the agent edits the app and you see it applied. If the change is over something important, it may ask for your approval before saving it, just like any other action.

Tip

Start minimal: ask for a simple version, try it and add from there. It’s faster than describing everything at once.

To share it with your team, see Sharing a project.