Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
A web surface that SHOWS the estate its own state — a dashboard, a viewer, a console. An app is a transparency layer: it reads records and renders them, and it is owned by exactly one agent. Apps deliberately do not perform work: an app that schedules, watches or mutates has stopped being an app and become an unaccountable droid in disguise.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Service
An app is one web surface; a service is a whole line of business that may own many apps, droids and budgets.
Not: System service
An app is what a person looks at; a system service is machinery that runs without a face.
Not: Tool
An app is used through a browser by a person; a tool is used from the command line or called by an agent.
🗣️Also called
dashboardsurfaceweb appviewer