Software architecture question for device that interfaces the HE to a lighting controller

Are you talking about this one? MQTT Client - Beta

Because if so, this doesn't look like it's an App in the HE sense... It's just the functions for MQTT that you can use when writing a driver.

If there is another app that does discovery and such, then I'll use that and make sure my topic structure and commands/functions support whatever it does for discovery and device creation.