Marketplace

Overview

You can publish two kinds of things: an application (a workflow shared with its interface) and an agent. Tables, interfaces, and skills are not published on their own: they travel inside the application or the agent that uses them. Open Marketplace from the sidebar. It has three tabs:

The marketplace is also public: each publication has its own page, and the whole catalog can be browsed without signing in. Installing requires an account.

Browse the marketplace

Sorting and filters

On Explore, Sort by offers Most liked (the default), Best rated, Newest, and Most installed. You can narrow the list by category, by rating (4 stars and up, 3 stars and up), by publish date, and by price. Reset filters clears them.

Most liked is a popularity ranking. It weighs favorites most, then installs, then the total weight of ratings (the average multiplied by the number of reviews), so one lone five-star review cannot outrank a well-reviewed app. Publications with no activity yet are shown newest first.

Studio shelf and highlights

The Studio shelf gathers the agents and applications that produce an image, a video, or a sound. The publisher opts in when publishing; the listing keeps its category as well. Studio shows the agents on the shelf under its prompt box. When you open the marketplace from there, a Studio only chip shows the shelf is active; remove it to see the whole marketplace.

Highlights are publications picked by the LiveContext team for the Highlights row on the home screen, the featured carousel at the top of the marketplace, and the public landing pages. Each of these lists is curated on its own, on LiveContext Cloud only.

Publishers and verified accounts

Every card and publication page shows the publisher's name, and publishers have a profile page with their bio, their figures (agents and applications published, times recruited, installs, rating) and their Agents then Applications. On LiveContext Cloud, a blue check marks a Verified account: platform administrators, and accounts the LiveContext team verified. The check is not shown for an account whose profile is private. Self-hosted installs show no verified badges.

Install an application

1. 1
   Open the publication

   Click a card to see its preview, description, reviews, and what it contains. The preview replays a real run the publisher captured; it never runs anything.
2. 2
   Click Install

   In the install dialog, you can tick Create an editable copy if you also want a workflow you can change (see below). It is unticked by default.
3. 3
   Open it

   Once the install finishes, the application's page opens, ready to run. An installed agent opens in its own conversation instead, with the first message it suggests ready in the box (nothing is sent until you send it). When you asked for an editable copy, the install ends on a summary with a link to that copy instead.
4. 4
   Connect your services

   Credentials never travel with a publication. If the app uses integrations or email, its page shows a banner such as Connect 2 services to start that lists them. Connect them now, or click Skip for now and do it later. Steps with no quick connect flow (HTTP authentication, JWT keys, webhook secrets) are named too, but an installed application cannot be changed: their values go into an editable copy of it (see below), which you run instead.

What you get

Installing creates an application in your workspace: a run-only copy of the whole stack with its own interfaces, tables (with any rows the publication includes), agents, skills, sub-workflows, and files. It no longer depends on the publisher: if they change or delete their workflow, your app keeps working. An application cannot be edited or published again.

To modify it, use Create an editable copy, either in the install dialog or later from the app's Application settings menu (the cog). The copy is an ordinary workflow in your workflow list, with its own copies of every resource; the installed application keeps running untouched. Asking again opens the copy you already have instead of making another. The copy counts against your workflow limit and costs no credits.

A published agent is tightened on install: it can only reach the tables, interfaces, and agents that the publication actually contains.

Example values and resetting the data

In an installed app, the Load the example values button fills the forms with the publisher's example inputs; nothing is sent until you submit. Reset the data restores the app's own tables to the rows it came with, after a confirmation: every row added or changed in them since is replaced, whoever changed it. The app's workflow and its runs are left as they are. Reset is not available on an app you published: it runs on your workflow's own tables, whose rows you change directly. Nor is it available for an app a self-hosted install took from the cloud marketplace.

Install rules and re-installing

Every install writes a receipt for your workspace, and receipts are kept. Re-installing from My Purchases is free and does not count against your plan's app limit. A re-install always takes the publication's current version, and it still works if the publisher later made the publication private or unpublished it, unless it was rejected. Updates are never pushed to existing installs: to get a newer version, delete your app and re-install it.

Self-hosted only and plan-gated apps

Some publications use features that are not available everywhere.

Publish a workflow as an application

1. 1
   Open the publish dialog

   In the workflow, click the globe Share button, then Publish to the marketplace. The Publish as an application dialog opens.
2. 2
   Information

   Enter a Title and a Description, and pick the Version to publish. An update has no version to pick: it publishes your workflow as it is saved now.
3. 3
   Showcase

   Pick the Showcase Run whose results visitors will see (on an update, any of the workflow's recent automatic runs, whatever their version), and the interface shown as the preview. Optionally pin one Showcase epoch as the default view; otherwise visitors can browse every captured epoch.
4. 4
   Visibility

   Choose Private or Public. For Public, also pick a Category, set a Price (0 for free, see Paid publications) and, for a media-producing app, turn on Show on the Studio shelf. The recap under Included in the application lists what will be copied.
5. 5
   Review the media and publish

   Click Publish. If the app displays images, video, or audio, a screening step lists them and asks you to confirm you have the rights (see below).

A Private application is live at once in your applications. A Public one waits for review; its card shows Pending Review in My Shared until an administrator approves it. To change it later, open the dialog again (it is then titled Update the application) and click Update. Unpublish removes it from the marketplace and from your applications (you type “unpublish” to confirm); people who installed it keep their copy.

Publishing freezes a snapshot of the workflow and everything it uses: interfaces, tables, agents and their skills, referenced files, and sub-workflows. Credentials are stripped, both when you publish and when someone installs. A first publish snapshots the version you picked; updating re-takes the snapshot from the workflow as it is saved now. On LiveContext Cloud, the number of publications you can create depends on your plan; updates do not count.

Visibility and review

The Publish as an application dialog offers Private and Public. Unlisted is available when you ask the chat assistant to publish; the assistant uses Private unless you say otherwise. The same review rule applies to every publication type: only Private skips review.

A reviewer compares the frozen snapshot with the source and checks that nothing the workflow uses is missing, then approves or rejects. A rejected publication shows Rejected, with View rejection reason. You cannot update a publication while its previous submission is still pending, and an update cannot move it between your personal workspace and an organization.

Showcase run requirements

The showcase run must be an automatic run (not step by step) whose status is one of:

• Completed or Partial success.
• Waiting for its trigger, for a workflow with a reusable trigger (webhook, manual, chat, schedule) that finished at least one cycle.

Failed, cancelled, and timed-out runs are refused. The preview is a frozen copy kept on your side: visitors never touch your live workflow, and the run is never handed to people who install the app. Files in the preview are served through links signed under your account and valid for up to 4 hours; a file that cannot be served shows as a broken image.

Media screening

Before an app with an interface is shared, screening lists every image, video, audio file, download link, and CSS background it displays, and reminds you to check you have the rights to each. For each item you can keep it, Replace with AI (a generated image, billed in credits), or Upload your own. Then choose Publish with attestation or Publish anyway. Screening never blocks publishing, and your decision is logged. You remain responsible for the content you publish.

Publish an agent

An agent has its own Publish action, with a title, a description, a category, a price, and the Studio shelf switch: turned on, the agent is shown under the prompt box of Studio once its listing is live. The Publish dialog always lists it as Public, so every publish and every update goes through review. To publish one Private or Unlisted, ask the chat assistant, which uses Private unless you say otherwise. An agent that has “All” access to a resource type cannot be published: switch it to an explicit selection first, so the publication cannot carry every workflow, table, and interface in your account. A publication that exceeds the size limit (or a table with too many rows) is refused with the figures.

Tables, interfaces, and skills have no Publish action of their own: share them inside an application or an agent. Copies already installed from an earlier table, interface, or skill listing stay in place, and Re-install in My Purchases still works for them.

Reviews, favorites, and reports

A review has an optional rating from 1 to 5 and an optional comment of up to 2,000 characters. You leave one review per publication (submitting again updates it), and you cannot review your own. Replies go one level deep and cannot be empty. The average rating counts only reviews that carry a rating.

Favorites are personal bookmarks, and they also feed the Most liked ranking. To flag content that infringes your rights or the terms, use the Report tab on the publication.

Your public profile

Your name always appears on what you publish. Your profile page is set in Settings > Overview > Public profile: a Bio, a Handle (your profile lives at @handle, changeable once every 7 days), and a Profile visibility:

• Public: listed by search engines.
• Unlisted: reachable by anyone with the link.
• Private: no profile page.

Paid publications

A publication has a Price in credits: 0 for free, or at least 2,000 credits. Each workspace pays it once to get its copy, and a re-install from My Purchases is free.

Sell a publication

Set the price in the publish dialog. The Publish as an application dialog shows it for Public only, and sends no price for a Private publication. A price above 0 needs you to accept the Creator Terms, with the box under the price or in Settings > Creator earnings. A paid publication can be Public, and it goes through review like any other.

Creator earnings shows what your sales earn (On hold, Payable, Paid, and Frozen: held back while a sale is reviewed, for example after the buyer's payment was refunded or disputed) and your rate per 1,000 credits sold. Set up your Payout account there: payouts go through Stripe, once a month, once your payable earnings reach the threshold the page states.

Buy a publication

Until you buy it, a paid publication shows a locked preview. You see its canvas, its description, and the showcase page the publisher chose; the other pages, the prompts, the step settings, the table rows, and the skill instructions come with the purchase, and the showcase run shows only step statuses and timings. Only a workspace that bought it can review it.

The install dialog shows the price and the credits you can spend. Tick the box that asks for immediate delivery (you lose your right of withdrawal once it is delivered), then click the button that names the price, for example Purchase for 2,000 credits.

Not every credit can buy marketplace items. Top-up credits always count in full. Your plan's credits count each month up to what your plan's invoices paid for that month, before tax. Gifted credits never count: referral and partner rewards, reward codes, welcome gifts, credits granted by the LiveContext team, and the free monthly allowance.

What you get from another creator's paid publication stays in your workspace: the installed app and everything it brought (its workflows, interfaces, tables, agents and skills), an editable copy, or a duplicate of any of them can only be published Private, and cannot be shared publicly or sold. The rule holds while that listing is paid, and the original creator (or their organization) may always republish copies of their own listing. On a self-hosted install, publications on its own marketplace are free, and a paid item from the cloud marketplace is charged to the linked cloud account.

The marketplace on a self-hosted install

A self-hosted Community Edition install shows the community marketplace once it is linked to a LiveContext Cloud account. Until then, the page shows Connect your cloud account with a Connect to cloud button, and no publications. After linking, you browse and install from the same catalog as cloud users, and apps marked CE exclusive install normally.

Share links

Separate from the marketplace, you can share a chat, a form, a conversation, an application, a workflow or an agent through a link: anyone who holds it can open it, without an account, and nothing is listed or installed. The number of share links you can hold depends on your plan; self-hosted installs have no limit. See Public access & sharing.

Troubleshooting

The Next button stays disabled in the publish dialog

The chosen version needs a completed automatic run and at least one interface, and it must not contain a Workflows trigger. The dialog shows a message when the version has no interface or contains a Workflows trigger. Step-by-step runs appear greyed out in the run list and cannot be used as a showcase.

My publication is not on the marketplace

Public and Unlisted publications wait for review after every publish and every update. Check My Shared for Pending Review or Rejected.

I cannot install an app I installed before

Your workspace still has it. Open it from your applications, or delete it and use Re-install in My Purchases to get the latest version.

An installed app fails on its first run

Its integrations are not connected yet. Connect the services it asks for; see Integrations.

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