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237a943947 Update twenty sdk commands (#20735)
Performs twenty-sdk cli command migration:

Summary

``` ┌─────┬──────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
 │  #  │       Old command        │        New command         │        Status         │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 1   │ twenty dev [appPath]     │ twenty dev [appPath]       │ Unchanged (now also   │
 │     │                          │                            │ DEFAULT)              │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 2   │ twenty dev --once        │ twenty dev --once          │ Unchanged             │
 │     │ [appPath]                │ [appPath]                  │                       │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 3   │ twenty dev --watch       │ twenty dev [appPath]       │ --watch flag removed  │
 │     │ [appPath]                │                            │ (was default)         │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 4   │ twenty dev --verbose     │ twenty dev --verbose       │ Unchanged             │
 │     │ [appPath]                │ [appPath]                  │                       │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 5   │ twenty dev --debug       │ twenty dev --debug         │ Unchanged             │
 │     │ [appPath]                │ [appPath]                  │                       │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 6   │ twenty dev --debounceMs  │ twenty dev --debounceMs    │ Unchanged             │
 │     │ <ms> [appPath]           │ <ms> [appPath]             │                       │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 7   │ twenty build [appPath]   │ twenty dev:build [appPath] │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │                          │                            │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 8   │ twenty build --tarball   │ twenty dev:build --tarball │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │ [appPath]                │  [appPath]                 │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 9   │ twenty typecheck         │ twenty dev:typecheck       │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │ [appPath]                │ [appPath]                  │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 10  │ twenty logs [appPath]    │ twenty dev:fn-logs         │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │                          │ [appPath]                  │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 11  │ twenty logs -n <name>    │ twenty dev:fn-logs -n      │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │ [appPath]                │ <name> [appPath]           │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 12  │ twenty logs -u <id>      │ twenty dev:fn-logs -u <id> │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │ [appPath]                │  [appPath]                 │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 13  │ twenty exec [appPath]    │ twenty dev:fn-exec         │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │                          │ [appPath]                  │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 14  │ twenty exec -n <name>    │ twenty dev:fn-exec -n      │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │ [appPath]                │ <name> [appPath]           │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 15  │ twenty exec -u <id>      │ twenty dev:fn-exec -u <id> │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │ [appPath]                │  [appPath]                 │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 16  │ twenty exec -p <json>    │ twenty dev:fn-exec -p      │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │ [appPath]                │ <json> [appPath]           │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 17  │ twenty exec              │ twenty dev:fn-exec         │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │ --postInstall [appPath]  │ --postInstall [appPath]    │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 18  │ twenty exec --preInstall │ twenty dev:fn-exec         │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │  [appPath]               │ --preInstall [appPath]     │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 19  │ twenty add [entityType]  │ twenty dev:add             │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │                          │ [entityType]               │ command               │
 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
 │ 20  │ twenty add --path <path> │ twenty dev:add --path      │ Deprecated → colon    │
 │     │  [entityType]            │ <path> [entityType]        │ command               │
 └─────┴──────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘

 App lifecycle commands

 ┌─────┬────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
 │  #  │      Old command       │        New command         │         Status          │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
 │ 21  │ twenty publish         │ twenty app:publish         │ Deprecated → colon      │
 │     │ [appPath]              │ [appPath]                  │ command                 │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
 │ 22  │ twenty publish --tag   │ twenty app:publish --tag   │ Deprecated → colon      │
 │     │ <tag> [appPath]        │ <tag> [appPath]            │ command                 │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
 │ 23  │ twenty deploy          │ twenty app:publish         │ Deprecated → colon      │
 │     │ [appPath]              │ --private [appPath]        │ command + --private     │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
 │ 24  │ twenty install         │ twenty app:install         │ Deprecated → colon      │
 │     │ [appPath]              │ [appPath]                  │ command                 │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
 │ 25  │ twenty uninstall       │ twenty app:uninstall       │ Deprecated → colon      │
 │     │ [appPath]              │ [appPath]                  │ command                 │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
 │ 26  │ twenty uninstall -y    │ twenty app:uninstall -y    │ Deprecated → colon      │
 │     │ [appPath]              │ [appPath]                  │ command                 │
 └─────┴────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

 Server commands

 ┌─────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
 │  #  │       Old command       │         New command         │        Status        │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 27  │ twenty server start     │ twenty docker:start         │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │                         │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 28  │ twenty server start -p  │ twenty docker:start -p      │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ <port>                  │ <port>                      │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 29  │ twenty server start     │ twenty docker:start --test  │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ --test                  │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 30  │ twenty server stop      │ twenty docker:stop          │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │                         │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 31  │ twenty server stop      │ twenty docker:stop --test   │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ --test                  │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 32  │ twenty server status    │ twenty docker:status        │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │                         │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 33  │ twenty server status    │ twenty docker:status --test │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ --test                  │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 34  │ twenty server logs      │ twenty docker:logs          │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │                         │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 35  │ twenty server logs -n   │ twenty docker:logs -n       │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ <lines>                 │ <lines>                     │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 36  │ twenty server logs      │ twenty docker:logs --test   │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ --test                  │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 37  │ twenty server reset     │ twenty docker:reset         │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │                         │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 38  │ twenty server reset     │ twenty docker:reset --test  │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ --test                  │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 39  │ twenty server upgrade   │ twenty docker:upgrade       │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ [version]               │ [version]                   │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 40  │ twenty server upgrade   │ twenty docker:upgrade       │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ --test [version]        │ --test [version]            │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 41  │ twenty server           │ twenty app:catalog-sync  │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ catalog-sync            │                             │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 42  │ twenty server           │ twenty app:catalog-sync  │ Deprecated → colon   │
 │     │ catalog-sync -r <name>  │ -r <name>                   │ syntax               │
 ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
 │ 43  │ twenty catalog-sync     │ (removed)                   │ Removed (was already │
 │     │                         │                             │  deprecated)         │
 └─────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘

 Remote commands

 ┌─────┬────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
 │  #  │      Old command       │       New command        │          Status          │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 44  │ twenty remote add      │ twenty remote:add        │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │                        │                          │ syntax                   │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 45  │ twenty remote add --as │ twenty remote:add --as   │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │  <name>                │ <name>                   │ syntax                   │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 46  │ twenty remote add      │ twenty remote:add        │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │ --api-key <key>        │ --api-key <key>          │ syntax                   │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 47  │ twenty remote add      │ twenty remote:add        │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │ --api-url <url>        │ --api-url <url>          │ syntax                   │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 48  │ twenty remote add      │ twenty remote:add        │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │ --local                │ --local                  │ syntax                   │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 49  │ twenty remote add      │ twenty remote:add --test │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │ --test                 │                          │ syntax                   │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 50  │ twenty remote list     │ twenty remote:list       │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │                        │                          │ syntax                   │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 51  │ twenty remote switch   │ twenty remote:use [name] │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │ [name]                 │                          │ syntax + renamed         │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 52  │ twenty remote status   │ twenty remote:status     │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │                        │                          │ syntax                   │
 ├─────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ 53  │ twenty remote remove   │ twenty remote:remove     │ Deprecated → colon       │
 │     │ <name>                 │ <name>                   │ syntax                   │
 └─────┴────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
```

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---
title: Apps
icon: "cube"
description: Extend Twenty with code — custom objects, server-side logic, UI components, and AI agents, all as TypeScript packages.
---
Most CRMs give you a config panel. Twenty gives you a platform. Apps are how developers extend Twenty beyond what the UI offers — defining data models, server-side logic, UI components, and AI capabilities as code, then deploying them to one or more workspaces.
## Why apps exist
Workflows cover no-code automation. But some things need code: a custom pricing engine, a proprietary enrichment pipeline, a compliance check that runs on every record update, a custom UI panel that pulls data from an internal tool.
Apps let you build these as first-class extensions — not brittle scripts talking to an API from outside, but code that runs on the platform with full access to the type system, permission model, and UI.
## What an app can define
An app is a TypeScript package that declares **entities** using the `twenty-sdk`:
| Entity | What it does |
|--------|-------------|
| **Objects & Fields** | New data tables and fields on existing objects — same treatment as built-in ones |
| **Logic Functions** | Server-side TypeScript triggered by HTTP routes, cron schedules, or database events |
| **Front Components** | Sandboxed React components that render inside Twenty's UI (side panel, widgets, command menu) |
| **Skills & Agents** | AI capabilities — reusable instructions and autonomous assistants |
| **Views & Navigation** | Pre-configured list views and sidebar menu items |
Everything is detected via AST analysis at build time — no config files, no registration boilerplate. Put a `export default defineObject(...)` in any `.ts` file and the SDK picks it up.
## How they run
- **Logic functions** execute in isolated Node.js processes, sandboxed from the host. They access data through a typed API client scoped to the app's role permissions.
- **Front components** run in Web Workers using Remote DOM — sandboxed from the main page but rendering native DOM elements (not iframes).
- **Permissions** are enforced at the API level. An app only sees what its role allows.
## The developer experience
You write your app as a TypeScript project on your machine. The CLI watches your source files and live-syncs them to a running Twenty server — edit a file, see the change in the UI within a second. The typed API client regenerates automatically when the schema changes. When you're ready, `yarn twenty app:publish --private` pushes to a production server, or `yarn twenty app:publish` lists your app on npm and the Twenty marketplace.
<Card title="Build your first app" icon="arrow-right" href="/developers/extend/apps/getting-started">
Three-phase walkthrough — scaffold, run a local server, sync your changes.
</Card>