Product Feature Research

Anything.com - Preview and Max Invocation

Surface

Project preview showing the live built app with agent chat visible alongside.

Layout

Three panes: 1. Left (~30%): agent chat history. 2. Center (~35%): live preview of the built app. 3. Right (~20%): "Recent Calculations" sidebar (part of the app itself, inside preview).

Top header

Tabs list shows: Calculator (project) + Build me a calculator (chat/task tab, active) + view-toggle icons (preview / code / desktop / mobile / refresh).

Center — live app preview

The screenshot shows the calculator app actually running: - App title: "Standard Calculator" with subtext "Precision arithmetic for professional workflows". - Large numeric display showing 0. - Button grid: numeric keypad (0-9), operators (÷, ×, −, +, =, ., ±, %, AC, ←). - Blue highlighted = button — this is the "Action Blue" referenced by the agent's reasoning (see Anything.com - Agent Chat). - Dark mode toggle icon top-right of app.

Recent Calculations panel (inside app)

Contextual Max trigger

Bottom of the preview pane: - Use MAX here — subtle link / pill inviting the user to summon Max within this specific context.

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Max is not just a mode toggle — it's contextually invokable from different surfaces. The "Use MAX here" pattern lets the user invoke autonomy within a specific preview, not just at the global prompt level. See Contextual Agent Trigger.

Bottom prompt box

Same as other screens: Make updates to your app… placeholder, Auto > + Default > mode selectors, attach icons.

Components observed

Component Purpose
Three-pane split (chat + preview + in-app sidebar) Full workspace
Tab bar Multiple chat/task threads per project
Live iframe preview In-workspace app execution
Contextual Max trigger ("Use MAX here") Localized agent summon
Viewport toggles Desktop / mobile / device frame

App-side UI inference

The built calculator itself uses: - Card-based grid for buttons (not flat — each button has a subtle shadow/border). - Blue primary action (= button) — the "Action Blue" from the design-system vocabulary. - Persistent right sidebar for history — see the "History Sidebar" reference in Anything.com - Code and Publish.

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