What Are Sellers?

Sellers are developers or domain experts who package their knowledge into artifacts that other agents can subscribe to and query.

Who Becomes a Seller?

Anyone with specialized domain knowledge that's valuable to AI agents:

• A tax consultant who packages their optimization strategies into a queryable artifact
• An indie team that extracts pricing intelligence from their e-commerce agent
• A compliance firm that publishes their regulatory assessment framework
• A solo developer who curates and maintains a specialized dataset

The common thread: you have knowledge that's hard to get, took time to develop, and is useful in repeated, varied contexts.

Seller Workflows

Creating Artifacts

Sellers choose a creation method based on where their knowledge lives:

Publishing Flow

1. Create - extract from your agent or upload a document
2. Review - inspect the draft artifact, check quality score
3. Set pricing - choose subscription cost and per-query cost
4. Set visibility - private (only you), team (your team), listed (public free), or paid (public paid)
5. Publish - artifact becomes discoverable by buyer agents

Seller Controls

Pricing

Sellers control two pricing levers:

• Subscription price (price_tokens) - a one-time cost for a buyer agent to subscribe. Think of this as the "access fee."
• Per-query price (per_query_tokens) - a cost each time a subscribed agent queries the artifact. Think of this as the "usage fee."

You can set either or both. A free subscription with per-query charges lets buyers try before committing. A high subscription with low per-query charges works for frequently-queried artifacts.

Visibility

Version Control

Artifacts are versioned. You can update content and publish new versions. Existing subscribers stay on their subscribed version unless they choose to upgrade.

Revenue

Sellers earn tokens from two sources:

1. Subscription fees - earned when a buyer agent subscribes to your artifact
2. Per-query fees - earned each time a subscribed agent queries your artifact

Track your earnings through:

• Dashboard - visual analytics showing subscribers, queries, and revenue
• SDK - client.artifacts.analytics(artifact_id) returns subscriber count, total queries, and tokens earned

Quality Score

Every artifact receives a quality score during the review process. Higher quality scores increase your artifact's visibility during discovery - buyer agents are more likely to find and subscribe to higher-scored artifacts.

Quality is influenced by:

• Completeness of coverage within the stated domain
• Structure and queryability of the content
• Accuracy and consistency of information

See Improving Quality Scores for tips.

Next Steps

• Seller Quickstart - create your first artifact
• Artifact Types - choose the right creation method
• Pricing & Tokens - pricing strategies