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Put your agent's apps on a screen on the wall

November 11, 2026 · 4 min read

A status board in the office, a slideshow in reception, a display on the factory floor: a private app your agent built can now run on an unattended screen. You open a screen link on it once, nobody has to sign in, and the screen can only look.

In an office entrance hall, a woman with a coffee mug smiles at a display newly hung on the wall, which shows a large "YES!" and "It's Friday." on green. Beside her, a man in a light blue plush squid hat holds a tool bag.

Squidler agents build apps that people like to keep in view: today's orders, who is in the office, the week's numbers, a slideshow for the reception. Many of them belong on a screen on the wall, where everyone can see them without opening anything.

A private app was a poor fit for that until now. Opening one takes a person's sign-in, and a sign-in to Squidler or to an app lasts at most 30 days. After that the screen in the hall showed a sign-in page, and someone had to find a keyboard and sign in again with their own account. In the meantime, a display everyone could see was running on one person's login.

So private apps now have screen links. You open the link once on the screen, and from then on the screen has access of its own: to that one app, read-only, and to nothing else. Nobody's login is involved, and it doesn't run out after 30 days.

Is it Friday?

To try it out, we had Wesley, one of our own agents, build a small app: Is it Friday? It answers the question everyone asks on a Wednesday, and we wanted it on a screen where the whole office could see it.

Opened in a browser, it is a private app at an address of its own, and it works because the person looking at it is signed in.

Is it Friday? open in a browser tab at is-it-friday--wesley-squidler.squidler.app, on green: a party face, a large "YES!", "It's Friday." and Friday, 13 November 2026. In the corner, a badge reads Built by Squidler, Private. — The app in a browser, for someone who is signed in.

Ask your agent

We asked Wesley to put it on the screen in our entrance hall. One sentence was enough.

A chat with Wesley. The message reads: "I want to show this app on a screen in our entrance hall." Wesley's reply: a screen called "Entrance hall" is set up for Is it Friday?, read-only and with nobody logged in on the display. Step 1: open this setup page while signed in to Squidler; it shows the screen's own link, which Wesley can't see. Step 2: open that link in the browser on the entrance hall screen, once, within 24 hours. The screen stops working if unused for 90 days and can be turned off or removed under Screens on the app's page. A browser that clears itself on restart would need a reusable link instead, which anyone who gets hold of it can open. — One sentence to Wesley, and a setup page in return. Wesley never sees the screen's own link.

Wesley set up a screen called "Entrance hall" and sent a link to a setup page. Wesley never sees the screen's own link. It is created when someone who works with the agent opens the setup page while signed in to Squidler, and only that person is shown it. They then open it in the browser on the screen.

Or do it yourself

The app's page in Squidler has a Screens card, next to the other settings for who can use the app. Anyone who works with the agent can make a screen there.

The Screens card on the app's page: "Show this app on a wall display or a board without anyone's login. A screen can view the app but not change anything, and only this app." A button reads New screen link. — The Screens card, on the app's page in Squidler.

Give the screen a name, so you can tell your screens apart later, and choose when it should stop working if nothing uses it.

The new screen form. Name of the screen: Production hall. Stop working if unused for: 90 days. An unticked box for a reusable link, for a screen that clears its browser when it restarts, warning that anyone who gets the link can open the app until the screen is turned off. Buttons: Make the link, Cancel. — A name, and how long the screen may go unused.

The link is shown once. It works once, and it has to be opened within 24 hours.

The screen Production hall in the list: made by Erik Ogenvik on Nov 11, 2026, never used, not opened yet, stop working if unused for 90 days, and a Turn off button. Below it: "Open this on the screen within 24 hours. It works once. You won't see it again here, so copy it now." and the link, starting https://is-it-friday--wesley-squidler.squidler.app/, with a Copy button. — The link is shown once, and works once.

On the screen, the link opens a page that says what is about to happen. Pressing the button turns that browser into the screen.

A page titled Start this screen: "This browser will become a screen showing Is it Friday?, labelled Production hall. It can view the app but cannot change anything in it. The link works once, so open it on the screen it is meant for." A button reads Start the screen. — What the screen shows when the link is opened.

From then on the app is simply there, with no sign-in page, and it stays there.

The Is it Friday? app filling the screen, with no browser around it: a sleepy face, a large "No.", "2 days left until Friday." and Wednesday, 11 November 2026. In the corner, a small badge reads Built by Squidler, Private. — The app on the screen, with nobody signed in.

What a screen can do

A screen can look at the app and nothing else. It cannot change anything in it: the platform refuses a screen's changes, whatever the app's code tries. It cannot open your agent's other apps, its chat, its desk or its files. In an app where people sign in with roles, the screen sees what any signed-in person sees, unless you give it some of the app's roles. It is never an admin.

A board updates by itself as its data changes, the same way it does for everyone else.

Keeping track of them

Every screen is listed under Screens, with who made it and when it was last used. A screen that is switched on checks in by itself every half hour, so "stop working if unused" only takes effect when a screen has really gone: a display that was taken down, or a browser that was reset. You choose 7, 30 or 90 days, or never.

You can turn a screen off at any time, and the screen then shows a red label saying it no longer has access. Once a screen no longer works, you can remove it from the list.

If the person who set a screen up stops working with your agent, the screen keeps working, and the agent tells its owner, so that you can decide whether it should.

Screens that forget

Some kiosk browsers clear everything when they restart, and a one-time link can't get them back in. For those you can make a reusable link, which the screen can open again after a restart. The catch is that anyone who gets hold of that link can open the app until you turn the screen off, and so can a chat app that opens links to show a preview. Use it only where you need it.

Where to find it

Screen links work on every private app your agent has built, and on apps it has shared with your organization. Public apps don't need them, since anyone can open those already. Ask your agent, or open the app's page and look for Screens.