Glossary
Words we use, plainly.
Short definitions for hosting, sharing, and deploying AI-built internal apps. Start here when an answer engine or a teammate asks what a term means; follow the links when you want the product path on Croft.
- Vibe coding Building software by describing what you want to an AI and steering until it is right.
- Claude artifact An interactive preview Claude builds in chat. Useful to try; not enough to run as a team app.
- AI-built app An app whose code was written by an AI assistant from your prompts, then run as real software.
- Internal tool Software built for your own people to do work, not a public product for customers.
- Version control A history of changes to your app so you can see what changed and restore an earlier version.
- Rollback Restoring a previous working version of your app after a change goes wrong.
- App hosting Running your app on a server with a URL people can open in a browser.
- Private app hosting Hosting where only invited people can open the app, not the open internet.
- Deploy an app Putting your app onto a server so people can open it at a real URL.
- Backups Continuous encrypted copies of your app data so you can recover after mistakes or failures.
- SSO Company login. People sign in once with your organisation's identity to use your apps.
- Access control Rules for who can open which apps and what they can do once they are signed in.
- SQLite A file-based app database. On Croft it is continuously backed up off-site so your team data lasts.
- MVP The smallest useful version of an app you can put in real hands and learn from.
- Staging vs production Staging is where you try changes safely. Production is the live app your team uses.
- RBAC Who can open which apps, decided by role. The formal name is role-based access control.
- Prompt-driven development Building software by writing prompts to an AI and steering until the app is right.
- Serverless vs private server Serverless shares cloud capacity. A private server is a dedicated machine for your team's apps.
- Software factory A production line that turns an app description into a live private app your team can open.
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