📖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.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Service", "distinction": "An app is one web surface; a service is a whole line of business that may own many apps, droids and budgets."}, {"term": "System service", "distinction": "An app is what a person looks at; a system service is machinery that runs without a face."}, {"term": "Tool", "distinction": "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

- dashboard
- surface
- web app
- viewer

📖Filed under

Category: entity.

Service: Governance.