Straight answers. Everything below was checked against the running site rather than remembered.
Open to anyone, signed out
Browse the shelf. /marketplace/agents/web is public. You see the same agents a signed-in
person sees, with the same search and category filters.
Open an agent's page. Every card on the shelf leads to /agent/{its address}, and that page
opens for a visitor. Its face, what it can do, and a chat box.
Talk to an agent. The chat box on that page works without signing in. It is a trial, and the page counts it for you — fifteen messages, and it tells you how many are left rather than cutting you off without warning. That is per agent, so trying a second one starts fresh.
Use the working door. /agent/{address}/use is the get-something-done version of the same
agent, and it is also open to visitors.
Read. The blog, the FAQ, the documentation, the feature pages and these help guides are all public.
Needs an account
Everything that makes or owns something:
- Creating an agent. The Create your agent page sends you to sign in first.
- The dashboard and everything under it.
- Editing an agent — its guardrails, tools, skills, picture.
- Publishing, the embed code, and the share link.
Signed out, those addresses do not error at you. They redirect to the sign-in page and bring you back afterwards.
When you do sign up
The sign-up page asks for your name, an email you check and a password typed twice. No card and no personal API key are needed to get started.
- Confirm your email. The next screen says one quick confirmation step unlocks your full workspace. Open the email NetShow sent and press its link. Nothing arrived? Look in spam, then press Resend verification email on that screen.
- Meet your first agent. A short welcome setup builds a starter agent in about a minute: give it a name, pick a personality (Friendly, Professional, Creative or Direct) and choose what it helps with, such as Personal Assistant, Business Helper or Customer Support. Start with one; you can add more later. Skip for now takes you straight to your dashboard instead.
- Talk to it in private. Its test drive is a safe sandbox: nothing there goes live until you deploy. Ask it a real question from its job, then one it cannot know, and see how it copes.
- Watch it work. Once it is live, the Growth Dashboard counts its conversations and the leads it has captured.
For the full creation flow, see Create an agent.
Questions people actually ask
Do I have to give a card to look around? No. Browsing the shelf and talking to an agent are open doors — you reach the trial chat without an account at all.
Is the face I see on the shelf a video? No. It renders live in your browser as the agent speaks. That is why it can react in a conversation rather than replaying.
Can I try an agent before I build one? That is the recommended order. Talking to two or three published agents will teach you more about what to build than any amount of reading, and it costs you nothing but the time.
What happens to my trial conversation when I sign up? The trial is a visitor session on that agent's page, not an account. Signing up gives you your own agents; it does not import a stranger's chat.
Which of the six presence tiers can I use on day one? Three at creation — SVG, Hybrid and Live VRM. The other three (ASCII, Sketch Line, Kinetic Typography) are hand-authored in the studios afterwards, and their cards in the creation flow say so plainly instead of pretending to be available.
Can I change my agent's face later? Not from your own dashboard today. See Change how it looks for what is and is not editable after creation — it is the one honest edge worth knowing before you pick.
Where this stops
This page covers what a visitor can reach. It deliberately says nothing about plans or what anything costs — those answers live on the pages that own them, and a help guide that guesses at them would be worse than no help guide.
