Publishing Is Permanent: What Gets Locked
What you authorize when you sign the publish message, which fields are locked forever, and what stays editable.
Written By Philippe
Last updated 3 days ago
Publishing Is Permanent: What Gets Locked
Publishing asks you to sign one message with your wallet. Signing is free — no gas, nothing to pay — but it is a real commitment: it publishes your workflow with its logic and prices locked in.
What the Signature Authorizes
One signature publishes everything you entered in the wizard:
- Your workflow (its nodes, connections, and logic)
- Your prices (one-time purchase price, per-run price, max API cost)
- Your linked sub-workflows, if any
- Your workflow's name, description, category, tags, and image
Locked vs. Editable
Before You Sign — a 60-Second Check
- Prices: is the per-run price what you meant? A typo here cannot be corrected.
- Sub-workflow links: does each linked address resolve to the right workflow name?
- Workflow: did you upload the final version, with test values removed?
Made a Mistake?
You can't edit a locked field, but you're never stuck:
- Unlist the flawed workflow from your dashboard so no new buyers find it.
- Publish a corrected version — upload the fixed workflow and set the right prices. Publishing is free; only listing needs a Listing Pass.
Existing buyers of the old version keep what they bought; new buyers get the corrected one.
Why It Works This Way
Buyers pay for exactly what they inspected: the workflow and prices they saw at purchase can never change under them. That guarantee is what lets strangers safely buy your workflow — and it's the same reason you can't quietly edit yours.
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