Phase 0 just landed. Here's everything we shipped.

What shipped

On 2026-05-23 we shipped Phase 0 of The Platform — the walking skeleton a creator can actually publish into. Four big things landed.

• The canonical platform.yaml manifest spec. Six required sections (identity, repo binding, pricing, entrypoints, permissions, data) plus optional channels, dependencies, content, SEO. Schema versioned at 0.1 and parsed via Zod with default-deny egress baked in — every outbound host has to be on an allow-list, wildcards forbidden.
• Voice-Graded Content Writer as the worked example Skill Pack. Drafts content in your authentic voice, runs through Selr's slop-blocker, returns to your chat. It's the first real pack in the catalogue and the proof the rails work.
• The manifest parser, packaged as @platform/manifest-parser. Same library the public site, the dashboard, and (eventually) the runtime all import. One source of truth for what a valid pack looks like.
• The public Skill Pack page rendering end-to-end from the example manifest. Browse to /skills/selr-ai/voice-graded-content-writer — that's a real manifest driving the page you see.

The manifest spec

We deliberated for weeks on what to require versus what to suggest. The trade-off: too lean and pack quality varies wildly; too strict and nobody publishes. Where we landed:

• Required: identity, repo binding, pricing (with multi-currency prices map), entrypoints, permissions (with outbound_http.deny_default: true as the only acceptable posture), data classification.
• Optional: channels, dependencies, content (Loom/docs URLs), SEO metadata, review classification.
• Versioning: schema_version locked at 0.1. Breaking changes bump the major; non-breaking additions bump the minor. We support every minor schema version that has shipped in the catalogue.

The spec was finalised across a 7-round audit cycle — every section went through Codex pressure-test before locking. We'd rather break it now than after 100 packs are published.

The worked example

Why this one as the launch example? Three reasons. It's self-hostable so a buyer can verify the code does what we say. It's subscription-priced so the recurring billing rail gets exercised end-to-end. And it's a real product Selr AI charges for elsewhere, so the demo on the live page isn't a mock — every install on this page actually invokes the real pack.

What ships next

Phase 1 is the first paid loop end-to-end. Specifically:

• Stripe Checkout as the first payment provider. Polar swaps in afterwards once the first sale clears.
• Telegram adapter with an auto-provisioned bot per creator. BotFather provisioning automated so the creator never has to leave their dashboard.
• Hosted runtime on e2b with a warm pool. Pre-warmed micro-VMs so the cold start lands under 250ms p50.
• Per-buyer Vault-encrypted secrets. Buyer API keys, tokens, credentials — all AES-256-GCM at rest, decrypted only inside the runtime VM at invocation time.

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