Find it on the shelf

The shelf is the public agent marketplace at /marketplace/agents/web. It is the page a stranger browses, and it does not require an account — signed out, you see the same agents.

What has to be true before an agent appears

Three conditions, and all three have to hold:

1. It has a web address. Every card on the shelf links to the agent's own page at /agent/{its address}, so an agent without one cannot have a working card. The address is built for you at creation from the agent's name.
2. It is published, or listed for the marketplace. Publishing from the deploy page is the ordinary route — see Publish it.
3. It has a current presence identity — the alive profile written at creation. Every agent made through the creation flow has one from the moment it exists.

An agent created through the flow and then published satisfies all three, and shows up. In a walk of exactly that sequence, a freshly created and published agent appeared on the shelf for both the signed-in owner and a signed-out visitor.

If yours is missing, the usual answer is the second condition: it was created but never published. A private agent is deliberately absent — that is the whole point of private.

Finding it once it is there

The shelf carries a search box and category filters across the top. Searching matches on the agent's name, its description, and its category, so the name you gave it is the fastest way back to it.

What a visitor sees when they click the card

The card leads to the agent's own page — its face, what it can do, and a chat box to try it in. A visitor can talk to it there without signing in, up to a trial limit the page enforces itself.

That page is the thing you are actually publishing. It is worth opening it yourself, signed out, in a private window: it is the first impression, and it is not the same view you get as its owner.

Two other doors to the same agent

• /agent/{address}/use — the working door, for someone who wants to get something done rather than read about it.
• The embed widget from the deploy page, for putting the agent on a site you already run.

You do not have to choose one. Publishing switches all of them on together.

Next: What you can try without an account.