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A mini app is a small app that lives in a chat. Use one when a message is not enough and your team needs something it can act on together, in the place the work is already happening. Agents can build and post them, so you can ask for a tool in the chat that needs it instead of opening another product. Mini apps depend on your workspace’s configuration, so you may not see every option here.

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Find an app again

  • In a channel: open the details panel with the Members button, then open the Apps tab. It lists the 30 most recent apps posted there.
  • In a DM: click the Apps chip in the header.
For an older app, search the channel’s messages for its title or link. An app that is not listed has not necessarily been removed.

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Post a fresh copy

Type / in an empty composer and pick the app’s command. If the app needs inputs, this asks an agent to set up the copy. For an app without inputs, you can also send $name as a message of its own. Each copy starts with the app’s own starting data and never copies another card’s entries.

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Commands

An app gets a command when a workspace admin or owner installs it, or presses Add as /name under a card an agent posted. This does not happen for an app that takes inputs or connects accounts. To see your workspace’s commands, open Studio, then Apps, then the Commands tab.

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Build one

Agents publish mini apps through the Ando MCP. See Publish mini apps.