Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖About & Usage
About
Requests Inbox is Carol's central admin mailbox for incoming capability and subscription requests. Whenever someone — an agent, an app, or a user — needs access to a new capability or wants to subscribe to a service they don't yet have, that request lands here. Think of it as the front desk where "Can I get access to…?" questions queue up for review.
The app is owned by Carol and sits behind an admin-only gate (`/dev/requests/`), meaning only administrators can see and act on what's inside. It gives admins a single place to triage, approve, or decline requests instead of hunting through messages or spreadsheets. It ties into the broader access and services landscape alongside apps like Access Mgmt - Users, Access Mgmt - Agents, and Services Catalog.
Usage Patterns
Requests Inbox comes into play whenever a new need surfaces. For example, imagine Sage is working on a financial analysis and discovers she needs access to a data pipeline she hasn't used before. She submits a capability request; that request appears in the Requests Inbox, where an admin — say Radagast — can review the details, check it against Carol's policies, and either grant or decline it.
The app also handles subscription requests — cases where an agent or team wants to start receiving outputs from a particular service or data feed. Because everything funnels through one inbox, admins get a clear audit trail of who asked for what and when, which keeps Themis happy on the compliance side. In practice, the inbox acts as a lightweight approval workflow: requests arrive, sit in a queue, and get resolved — keeping Carol's ecosystem tidy and well-governed.
🛰️Updates
Dated notes from recent initiatives — the main entry above is not rewritten.
The Requests Inbox now displays the real visitor name and email instead of "Web visitor" by resolving from the sender_key against the users table, falling back to email local-part if needed. Cross-links: Requests Inbox, Request Classifier.
Design system compliance brought current: canonical topbar (CAROL_LOGO_v4) and dark-theme baseline palette now implemented, resolving pre-existing findings waived during CAROL-INI-2017.
🗂️Tabs & Screens
Tab inventory is being built — see CAROL-INI-077 step 7.
👤Owner
Carol · Sales Agent — EU📚Recent initiatives
Initiatives that touched this app — a short summary each; open one for the full story.