Glossary

Agent — An AI that doesn’t just answer but does things: in Studio, it writes your app’s code, runs it and tests it. Apps can have their own agents too.

App — Something you build on Maypop: a game, a tracker, a planner, a quiz. It lives at its own link, app.maypop.ai/app/<id>, and keeps its own data. See Key concepts.

Assistant — A general AI chat app such as Claude or ChatGPT. You can connect one to Maypop.

CLI — Command-line interface: the maypop program you run in a terminal to publish apps from your own code. More.

Credits — What AI work is paid in. Free accounts get a daily allowance. Models and costs.

Drive — An app’s file storage, for photos, audio and documents. More.

Explore — Maypop’s showcase of public apps. More.

General access — The setting that decides what opening an app’s link does. More.

Group — A chat for a set of people, with a shelf of apps shared into it. More.

Iteration — One round of changes in Studio. You can revert to any of them. More.

KV store — An app’s shared database: named slots (“keys”) holding values, shared live with everyone using the app. More.

MCP — Model Context Protocol, an open standard that connects AI to other services. Maypop uses it both ways: your assistant can use Maypop, and your app can use other services.

Multiplayer — People using an app at the same time and seeing each other live. More.

Preview — The running copy of your app inside Studio. It uses real data.

Prompt — What you type to tell the AI what you want.

Publish — Make your latest changes the version other people see.

Remix — Make your own copy of someone’s app to change. More.

Role — What someone can do in an app: Can view, Can use, Can edit or Can manage. More.

SDK — Software development kit: the maypop code library an app uses to reach accounts, data, files and AI. More.

Studio — Where you build and change apps by chatting with an agent. More.

Tier — How powerful a model is: Fast, Smart or Pro. More.

Token — The unit AI models read and write in, about four characters of text. Credits are counted from tokens.

Version — A published state of an app. One is live for everyone.

Vibe coding — Building software by describing it to an AI and steering the result, rather than writing the code yourself. Studio is vibe coding with everything else — hosting, data, sharing — already done.