What are Apps
Apps give PandaOS both a set of actions and a live workspace UI for every connected service, tied together by Spotlight.
Two halves of every app
An app in PandaOS is more than an API connection. Every app has two sides:
- Actions - the things PandaOS can do on your behalf: send an email, run a SQL query, create a calendar event, move a Trello card. These are the tools Panda uses during a conversation.
- A workspace tab - a full, live interface for that service embedded directly in PandaOS. Gmail shows your inbox with threads, labels, and compose. Supabase shows your tables, rows, and schema. Google Drive shows your files and folders. Trello shows your boards and cards.
This is what makes PandaOS apps different from a plain tool integration. You are not just giving Panda permission to call an API behind the scenes. You get a real, interactive frontend for each service inside the same window where you chat. When PandaOS drafts an email, you can watch it appear in the Gmail tab. When it runs a migration, you can see the schema change in the Database tab. The AI works with these services and you see the results in the same place.
Spotlight: watch Panda work
Spotlight is what ties the two halves together. When PandaOS uses an app during a conversation, Spotlight automatically opens that app's workspace tab so you can watch the work happen in real time.
Ask PandaOS to check your email and the Gmail tab opens alongside the chat, showing the inbox it is reading from. Ask it to query your database and the Database tab surfaces with the table it is working with. This is not a notification or a log entry - it is the actual app interface, live, showing the same data Panda is acting on.
Spotlight is on by default for every app that has a workspace tab. You can turn it off per app if you trust the output and do not need to observe every step. The work still happens; the tab just stops following along. There is also a global Spotlight toggle in settings. Turning Spotlight off does not stop apps from opening when you ask for it: asking PandaOS to open an app still opens it.
Available integrations
PandaOS covers the tools most teams already use:
- Email & Calendar - Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar
- Messaging - Slack, Microsoft Teams
- Docs & PM - Notion, Confluence, Jira, Asana, Trello
- Dev & Cloud - GitHub, Supabase, Vercel, Databricks
- Marketing & Analytics - Google Ads, Google Analytics, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, TikTok Ads
- Files - Google Drive
- CRM - HubSpot
See the Integration Reference for the full list with connection methods and capabilities.
Usage limit failover
When a connection reaches its usage limit a chat normally stops until the limit resets. Usage limit failover keeps the turn going by moving it to the next connection in an order you set.
Connecting an app
How authentication works, and how you control what PandaOS can do with each app through Actions and per-tool permissions.