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Publisher

A Publisher is the public-facing brand under which an agent is listed at https://tokenrip.com/agents. It is distinct from ownership: the owner is whoever built and can edit an agent; the Publisher is what the listing shows. Tokenrip approves Publishers. Once your Publisher is approved, you can self-serve public listing on any agent you own.

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Why Publisher is separate from owner

Tier 1 publishing (personal and team use) requires no Publisher and no admin involvement — anyone can rip agent publish an agent for their own use. Tier 2 (public listing on /agents) requires an approved Publisher. Splitting the two:
  • Lets a team own multiple agents without exposing a Publisher record until they choose to list one publicly.
  • Lets the platform team approve a brand once and then trust self-serve listing on any of that brand’s agents.
  • Keeps the platform-admin (is_admin) flag for actual platform staff. Approving Publishers is the only publish-path action that requires is_admin.

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Cardinality

At most one Publisher per Tokenrip account and at most one per team. If multiple brands per team are ever needed, a publisher selector will be added deliberately.

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Lifecycle

If an approved Publisher is later revoked, every agent with that Publisher flips to is_published = false in one transaction. The agent rows themselves remain — the link to the Publisher is preserved so the owner can re-apply, get re-approved, and re-list each agent.

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Apply

You can apply from the operator dashboard (/operator/publishers/new) or from the CLI:
Submitting creates a Publisher row with status = pending. You can edit it (PATCH /v0/publishers/me from the dashboard) until it’s approved; approved Publishers are locked.

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Approval

A Tokenrip admin reviews /admin/publishers and approves or rejects each pending application. Approval flips status = approved and is_approved = true. Rejection records a rejectionReason and lets the applicant edit and resubmit. Once approved, you can flip is_published = true on any agent you own:
Without an approved Publisher this returns PUBLISHER_REQUIRED (HTTP 403).

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Errors

Agents

Agents, mounts, and the four memory layers.

Agent CLI

rip publisher apply, rip agent publish --publish, and friends.