App Framework overview

The Synthetiq App Framework is a full-stack application framework with built-in authentication, access control, database management, service integrations, monitoring, and deployment. AI agents build application logic — the framework handles everything else.

Framework vs. app code

The framework provides a large set of functionality via @synthetiq/app-framework. App code imports from the framework — it does not reimplement these features.

Provided by the framework

Component	What it provides
Backend	tRPC procedures with type-safe input validation, declarative access control, and middleware
Frontend	React SPA with client-side routing and pre-built admin, settings, and docs pages
App database	Postgres database with Prisma ORM, and automatic row-level security
Authentication	OAuth 2.0 with pluggable identity providers — zero app code
Access control	Scope-based RBAC enforced at build time and runtime
AI agent	Built-in chat with streaming, tool calling, and rich rendering
Services	Scope-gated integration with external services via platform-managed credentials
Workflows	Background job execution with scheduling, pagination, and retry
Auto-generated APIs	HTTP endpoints, MCP server, and OAuth provider from tRPC procedures
Monitoring	Structured logging, metrics collection, and dashboards

App implements

Category	Description
Pages & components	The app-specific pages, styles, and components
Backend routes	The API routes for the app’s business logic
Workflows	JSON configuration for any workflows the app will trigger
DB tables	The database tables for powering the app’s business logic
AI agent configuration	The system prompt, access control, and LLM provider for the in-app AI agent
App metadata configuration	App name, description, and settings
Access control	Define scopes and access control policies

Next steps

Creating an app — scaffold an app and build a task tracker step by step
Auto-generated docs — auto-generated documentation pages
Headless API — HTTP API, MCP server, and OAuth provider
Administration UI — managing users, roles, organizations, identity providers, and services
App lifecycle — versioning, sharing, and deploying
Upgrading — upgrading to new framework versions
Full reference — procedures, routing, database, access control, and configuration

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Platform Docs

Synthetiq Desktop

Synthetiq CLI

App Framework

Services Framework

Workflows Framework

Platform API

Deployments

App Framework overview

Framework vs. app code

Provided by the framework

App implements

Next steps

​Framework vs. app code

​Provided by the framework

​App implements

​Next steps

Framework vs. app code

Provided by the framework

App implements

Next steps