What is Froglet?
Make your useful work available to someone else.
Choose some data or a task your computer can do. Review an example, approve what becomes available, and share a link. Froglet handles the service connection on infrastructure you control.
Bob has something Alice can use
Section titled “Bob has something Alice can use”Bob’s lab has a table that matches different names for the same research terms. Alice needs those matches for her own analysis. She does not need Bob’s entire database.
- Bob chooses the useful part. His assistant prepares a separate copy containing only the selected collections and fields.
- Bob checks an example. He sees what is included, what is omitted, and what Alice would receive from a lookup.
- Bob approves sharing. He chooses public access or an invitation and sends Alice the service link. Invitation credentials travel separately.
- Alice decides whether it helps. She or her assistant inspects the description, example, and terms before using the service.
This is the idea behind a service: something useful another person can ask your computer to do. It could look up a record, return a selected dataset, or run a specific calculation. It does not give someone general access to your computer.
Walk through sharing your first service →
What you control
Section titled “What you control”- The material: selected data or a specific operation, with an example you can review.
- Access: public use or invitations; current invitations apply to the provider, not to one individual service.
- Limits: the supported input and execution limits for the chosen service type.
- Availability: you run the provider and can pause access. Already delivered results cannot be recalled.
The sharing guide explains these controls and their limits. The supported first-use path is free. Paid rails have separate setup and maturity limits.
The words you will see in the docs
Section titled “The words you will see in the docs”| Term | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| Provider | Bob’s Froglet node: the computer making a service available. |
| Requester | Alice’s Froglet node: the computer asking to use it. |
| Offer | The description of what a service accepts, returns, and costs. |
| Quote and deal | The proposed terms for one request and the requester’s commitment. |
| Receipt | A signed record of the provider’s reported outcome and relevant hashes. |
Signed records let people check which key signed a commitment and whether the record was changed. They do not establish a person’s legal identity or prove that a result is correct. Read Trust & Economics for that boundary.
What is available today
Section titled “What is available today”The current public beta supports guided free sharing with Codex or Claude Code on Apple Silicon macOS and Linux x86_64/arm64. The provider’s computer must stay awake and online. See the release and setup requirements.
For organizations, the direction is to turn agreed sharing rules into a working service. Froglet does not currently interpret arbitrary legal agreements or automatically deliver every SLA. The organization page separates current controls from that longer-term direction.