# PlatPhorm Onboard
> Public creator and project intake for the PlatPhormNews web mesh.

## Purpose
Onboard helps creators, builders, artists, developers, writers, communities, and projects apply to join PlatPhormNews. It supports public URL preview, creator classification, subdomain requests, local browser drafts, application submission when backend persistence is available, and public network exploration.

## Current Canonical Counts
- Graph sites: 370
- Sitemap surfaces: 363
- Onboard MCP tools: 17
- Supported languages: 8
- Network data source: network-graph
- Updated at: 2026-09-01T02:28:39.669Z

## Languages
- English (en) [selected]
- Spanish (es)
- French (fr)
- German (de)
- Portuguese (pt)
- Japanese (ja)
- Chinese (zh)
- Arabic (ar)

## Creator Types
- maker: Maker / Crafter
- developer: Developer
- artist: Artist
- designer: Designer
- photographer: Photographer
- writer: Writer / Blogger
- musician: Musician
- videographer: Video Creator
- educator: Educator
- entrepreneur: Entrepreneur
- community: Community
- other: Other Creator

## Public Endpoints
- GET /api/health
- GET /api/v1/health
- GET /api/docs
- GET /openapi.yaml
- GET /api/openapi
- GET /api/url-preview?url=
- GET /api/check-subdomain?subdomain=
- GET /api/applications?id=
- POST /api/applications
- GET /api/v1/network/sites
- GET /api/v1/network/graph
- GET /llms.txt
- GET /llms-full.txt
- GET /llms-index.json
- GET /rss.xml
- GET /feed.xml
- GET /sitemap.xml
- GET /robots.txt
- GET /.well-known/mcp.json
- GET /.well-known/agents.json
- GET /.well-known/security.txt
- GET /.well-known/trust.json

## Auth
Protected actions use PLATPHORM_API_KEY only. Requests may send Authorization: Bearer $PLATPHORM_API_KEY or X-PlatPhorm-API-Key: $PLATPHORM_API_KEY.

## Public / Protected Boundary
Public read-only onboarding, local non-sensitive draft persistence, URL preview with SSRF protection, subdomain availability checks, discovery files, public network exploration, and health summaries are supported. Review, approval, registry mutation, sync, report generation, test triggering, and administrative actions require PLATPHORM_API_KEY.

## Degraded State Policy
If backend persistence is unavailable, Onboard preserves browser drafts locally and returns an honest degraded response. It does not claim final submission, subdomain reservation, GitHub creation, v0 project creation, or Vercel deployment.