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Add a screen, an integration, or an AI tool, reusing the records and approval flow already in place.

Updated October 10, 2026 4 min read

When your team repeats a checklist or copies customer updates into a separate report, describe that work to Claude Code or Codex and ask it to build the workflow here. The agent can reuse customer identity, permissions and business services, so each new screen needs less shared infrastructure and your team has fewer duplicate records to maintain.

A maintenance company could build an equipment-service workspace linked to its existing customers. An agency could turn its kickoff process into an approved checklist. The bundled plugin examples show working patterns you can study and adapt directly, from a small report to a complete operator workspace.

Choose an extension path

Start by adapting a working follow-up report. Change the quiet-opportunity threshold from seven days to three, run the local fixture and inspect the newly visible opportunities. The exercise uses the actual report source without a database, model or provider account.

What you want to addBuilding blockA useful starting example
A page, navigation item and settingsModuleInventory registration
A report over existing recordsReport pluginBusiness Pulse
A reviewed operation that creates workWorkflow pluginClient onboarding
Information or actions from another serviceIntegration adapterStripe invoicing
A new operation an assistant can useAI toolMeeting commitments
Access from an external assistantMCPConnect your client

These are starting patterns. An App can also own new business records, a custom lifecycle and a complete operating screen. App design explains how to choose shared primitives or domain-specific work. Customization distinguishes current settings from source changes.

A module describes how a capability appears and is configured. A connector supplies access to another system. A plugin adds behavior using whatever capabilities the workspace already makes available. All three fit together, but each does a different job, so picking the right one first saves you from redoing the wiring later.

Build on what the platform already knows

Keep a customer's identity, conversations and activity attached to the existing records. Let the shared services handle permissions, proposed actions and execution results. Your extension can focus on the part that is specific to your business: what deserves attention, which inputs matter, and what the next step should be.

Give the coding agent one example to follow, the business outcome, the source records, the required decisions and a concrete acceptance test. It chooses the implementation, writes the extension registration and verifies the result. Your first agent-built change walks through setup and the handoff you review.

An example brief you can adapt

Build a report that finds customers whose service review is due. Use existing customer and task records. Show the source record and reason for each finding. Keep the first version read-only, and include a fictional overdue example, an empty result and a disabled state.

This is a proposed extension, not a bundled service-review feature. Starting with a bounded report makes the result easier to check. You can add a separately reviewed task-creation workflow once the report is useful.

Connect another service

For a service with an API or suitable export, add an adapter that maps its information into the workspace's records. Inbound changes can use webhooks. A custom connection still needs authentication, data mapping, permissions and failure handling; not every provider is already supported.

The extension reference covers the contracts and tests. You can modify the source under its MIT license and run your own deployment. Keep changes focused so future updates remain easier to integrate.

Create software with AI

Use an external coding agent to build and verify source changes today. The planned in-app experience will let you describe an App, preview an isolated draft, inspect its code and permissions, and publish a version you can update or roll back. Build Apps with a coding agent gives a complete brief and distinguishes the current workflow from that planned builder.