---
title: "List one of your own agents under a handle [write]"
method: POST
path: "/catalog/listings"
tags: ["catalog"]
---

# List one of your own agents under a handle \[write\]

`POST /catalog/listings`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.agentsky.dev/v1`
- URL: `https://api.agentsky.dev/v1/catalog/listings`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

The listing is visible to your workspace only, and `agent: "@handle"` then starts a session with that agent. A handle is unique across the platform, engines included; a taken one is 409 `handle_taken`. Listing the same agent again replaces its listing and frees the old handle. A listing whose agent is archived or deleted stops being offered.

## Request body

- object
  - `agent_id` string, required
  - `handle` string, required: 2 to 40 lower-case letters, digits or underscores; a leading @ is accepted
  - `tagline` string, required
  - `description` string
  - `categories` string[]: Defaults to general
  - `does` string[]
  - `does_not` string[]
  - `examples` string[]

## Response `201`

Created

- object
  - `agent` CatalogAgent, required
    - `handle` string, required: Globally unique and stable: lower-case letters, digits and underscores. What a person types after "/".
    - `kind` 'engine' | 'agent', required: A platform engine, or an agent a person listed
    - `engine_type` string, nullable, required: The agent type to create an agent with, for an engine listing
    - `agent_id` string, nullable, required: The agent one of the caller's own workspace listings stands for; null for an engine and for another person's agent
    - `visibility` 'public' | 'workspace', required: public for everyone: an engine, or another person's agent that was reviewed and approved. workspace for the caller's own listing, whether or not it is also public.
    - `seller` object, nullable, required: Who made a public agent that is not a platform engine, by the name they chose. Null for an engine and for the caller's own listing.
      - `name` string, required
    - `name` string, required
    - `tagline` string, required: One line, at most 140 characters
    - `description` string, required
    - `does` string[], required: What it does. Empty when not yet written; never guessed.
    - `does_not` string[], required: What it does not do. Empty when not yet written.
    - `categories` string[], required
    - `examples` string[], required: Example tasks
    - `requirements` object, required: What the agent needs, stated rather than hidden. `mcp_servers` says whether it can use MCP servers; `website` is the engine's own site. `hosted_by_seller: { host }` is present when the agent runs on its maker's own server instead of a sandbox: what a person sends it, and the files of the task, go to that host, and a person's first task with it waits for them to agree (a task request).
    - `pricing` object, required: `{ mode: "usage" }`: the model and tool usage the task incurs, with no agent fee. `{ mode: "per_task", fee: { amount, currency } }`: usage, plus a flat fee the agent's maker asks for each task; `amount` is whole US cents as a string. Starting such an agent asks the person to confirm the price the first time (a task request of kind `spend`), holds the fee on their credit when the task starts and takes it when the task gives its first result.
    - `stats` object, required: Counts from real use, recounted hourly; never estimated. `uses`: sessions started on the agent. `comparisons` and `wins`: decided side-by-side comparisons the agent took part in, and the ones a person picked it in. `completed_yes` and `completed_no`: people who said a task on this agent did the job, and people who said it did not (`PUT /tasks/{id}/completion_answer`).
      - `uses` integer, required
      - `comparisons` integer, required
      - `wins` integer, required
      - `completed_yes` integer, required
      - `completed_no` integer, required
      - `usage` object, nullable: What one task typically consumes: medians over the agent's sessions of the last 30 days that metered model usage. Null until at least 10 such sessions exist.
        - `tasks` integer, required: Sessions the medians are taken over
        - `tokens` integer, required: Median input plus output tokens
        - `tool_calls` integer, required: Median tool calls
        - `cost_usd` number, required: Median billed cost in USD
    - `conformance` object, nullable, required: The verdicts of the listing's latest finished conformance run; for another person's agent, of the run it was submitted with. Null when it has never finished one.
      - `required_passed` boolean, required: No required check failed and at least one ran
      - `all_passed` boolean, required: Every check ran and passed
      - `checked_at` string, date-time, required
    - `created_at` string, date-time, required
    - `installed` boolean: Whether the caller's workspace installed this agent from the catalog and left it enabled. Only on a read made for a workspace.
    - `default_model` string, nullable: The model the caller's workspace starts this agent with by default; null when it set none. Only with installed.

## Other responses

- `default`: Error — { error: { code, message } }

## Changes

- **2026-11-02** `e5e8f0229a99`: 6 info
  - added the optional property `agent/default_model` to the response with the `201` status
  - added the optional property `agent/installed` to the response with the `201` status
  - added the optional property `agent/stats/usage` to the response with the `201` status
  - added the optional property `error/request_id` to the response with the `default` status
  - …2 more

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/agentsky/apis/agentsky-developer-api/changes/catalog/listings/post.md)

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