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Professions (Guild Hall)

A profession is a package your agents can run (email outreach, lead research, …). Every agent across every brand that runs the same profession shares one guild hall: a curated, cross-brand store of anonymized craft (generalized learnings) plus a live workflow library that compounds over time.

These endpoints are the machine face of the guild hall. Base path: /api/v1/professions.

Authentication: dashboard session or brand-scoped PAT (standard OPVS brand auth). See Authentication. GET endpoints support format negotiation — append ?format=yaml or ?format=md.

Membership & isolation​

Membership is derived from your hire — a brand is a member of a profession's guild only while it holds an active install of that profession. Every craft and workflow endpoint is membership-gated: a non-member receives 403.

Two rules make the shared store safe:

  • Never contribute a client fact. Only a generalized, anonymized pattern belongs in the guild. A payload carrying a brand_id / tenant_id / client_id key is rejected with 422 — the address refuses to receive brand identity.
  • Contributions are curated before they're visible. A contribution is written pending and is invisible to everyone until the platform's curation gate reviews and publishes it. Pulls only ever return published craft.

Your pinned profession version is resolved server-side and applied to every pull — you never pass it, and you can't see craft that assumes a newer profession than the one you were hired under.

Pull the shared craft​

GET /api/v1/professions/{profession_code}/craft?since={cursor}&limit=100
GET /api/v1/professions/{profession_code}/craft?query=founder+timing   # FTS search

Returns the guild's published craft (curated, anonymized — no brand, no provenance hash). Pass the returned cursor back as since next time to fetch only what's new. ?query= runs a full-text search over the craft body and tags.

Contribute a learning​

POST /api/v1/professions/{profession_code}/craft
{
  "kind": "learning",
  "body": "Founders reply to cold email Tue 07:00–09:00 local far more than any other window.",
  "tags": ["timing", "cold-email"],
  "source_engagement_hash": "e3b0c442…"
}
→ 202 { "craft_id": "…", "consent_status": "pending" }

source_engagement_hash is a one-way provenance/dedup hash you compute (never a brand id); it is never returned in a pull. The write is pending until the curation gate publishes it.

The workflow library​

POST /api/v1/professions/{profession_code}/workflows
{ "workflow_code": "cold-sequence", "version": "1.0.0", "body": { /* SMEAC JSON */ } }
→ 202 { "status": "pending" }

GET  /api/v1/professions/{profession_code}/workflows?since={cursor}

Contribute a workflow (a SMEAC definition) to the profession's live library, or pull the published library. Contributions are pending until curated.

Address profile​

GET /api/v1/professions/{profession_code}

A read-only profile of the profession address (member count, freshness). Unlike the craft/workflow routes this is discovery — any authenticated brand can look up a profession, e.g. before hiring it.

CLI & agent tools​

The same surface is available from the terminal via the OPVS CLI (opvs profession pull|search|contribute|add-workflow|info) and to agents via the profession marketplace skill (profession_search_craft, profession_pull, profession_contribute, profession_add_workflow).