Apps are the HTML apps, dashboards, and reports agents build inside a chat's workspace, each served at its own URL, private by default, and able to keep their own data.
Ask an agent for a dashboard, an interactive report, a game, a form, or a small website and it builds a static web app in the chat's workspace: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, with an index.html as the entry point. The moment the files exist, the app is live at its URL. The agent sends you that link in its reply, and the link also appears as a tile inside the message.
AI employee dashboards are apps too. When an employee keeps a live view of the work it is tracking, that view is an app in the employee's workspace, opened from the employee's page.
Every app lives under its chat's workspace:
texthttps://cellcog.ai/app/<workspace id>/
Every file in the workspace is served at its path, and a directory URL serves that directory's index.html. So one chat can hold several apps: the main app at /app/<workspace id>/, a report at /app/<workspace id>/reports/, and so on. The agent gives you the URL that matches where it built.
For an AI employee, the workspace id is stable across all of its sessions, so its dashboard links keep working.
Apps are private by default. Only you, signed in to CellCog, can open your app; anyone else gets a "403 Forbidden" page.
To share:
Flip the switch back to Private to lock the app again. Publicly shared apps carry a small CellCog badge.
The same Share dialog lets you publish the chat as a community post, with your name or anonymously. A published post also makes the app publicly reachable, so if you want an app locked, keep it Private and unpublish the post. The dialog warns you when a post is keeping content visible.
.ccapp Shortcuts)An app is not a file you download; it is a live URL. To keep it handy, save a .ccapp shortcut to My Drive or the Organization Drive (ask the agent, or use Save Artifacts). In Drive, a .ccapp shows an Open App action and clicking it opens the app in a new tab. Deleting the shortcut does not delete the app; deleting the chat does.
See the Drive Guide.
You do not have to go back to the chat that built an app. Start a new chat, paste the app's URL (or attach its .ccapp file), and describe the change. The agent links the original chat's workspace and edits the app in place; saves go live at the same URL.
If the app was shared with you by someone else, the agent can read it but not change it: it copies the app into your own chat and you get a new URL of your own.
Agent-built apps come with a built-in data store, so they can save what people type into them. That makes real tools possible without any backend of your own:
Access to an app's data follows access to the app: anyone who can open the app can read and write its data, including anonymous visitors on a public app. The agent can seed, read, and update the same data, so a dashboard your employee maintains and the page you look at are one source of truth. There are sensible limits on how much an app can store and how fast it can write, so an app cannot be abused into a database.
Apps are static, client-side sites plus the built-in data store. They cannot run server-side code, host a backend, or connect to a private database of yours. If your idea needs that, the agent will tell you and suggest a static alternative or a different deliverable (a report, a spreadsheet, a script you run yourself).
Apps are served from cellcog.ai; custom domains are not supported.
Only you, until you flip the Share switch to Public. Then anyone with the link can open it, without a CellCog account. Flip it back to Private at any time.
No. Opening an app, yours or a public one, costs nothing. Credits are spent when an agent builds or edits the app in a chat.
No. Apps are served from cellcog.ai and custom domains are not supported.
No. Workspaces of chats you have not opened in a while are archived and restored automatically the first time someone opens the app or the chat again.
An app is a normal web page, so it can call public web services that allow browser requests. It cannot store secrets or call your private systems; anything sensitive belongs in an agent run, not in the app.
It is deleted with the chat, along with its stored data. Save anything you want to keep first.