Topic
app-platform
2 articles · 1 video filed under app-platform, newest first — notes from building Brainstorm, the local-first, AI-native operating system for knowledge work.
August 2026
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An agent is a member, not a feature
Most products bolt an assistant onto the side, a box in the corner with no standing in the thing it is helping you with. Brainstorm makes an agent a member of your vault instead, with a name, permissions from the same list a person holds, and a record of everything it did.
July 2026
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Writing and installing a real app inside Brainstorm
A manifest, an entry page, and an install — an app written in Brainstorm's own code editor and installed into the vault without leaving the shell or opening a terminal.
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An app can be two files
The whole platform contract is a manifest and an entry page, so you can extend your own workspace with a tool nobody else would ever build, typed by hand in the code editor or described to the agent and approved into your vault.