Docs

Documentation for humans and agents, covering the whole process from a seller's first configuration to a provisioned buyer account.

Guides marked “Live” describe what works today; the OpenAPI document is the live registry of what exists. Guides marked “In development” also cover lanes still in flight or coming soon, and say so where they do.

Start here

Core concepts In development: The vocabulary of Skip the Sell in one page — sellers, buyers, agents, offers, rules, configuration versions, deals, quotes, gates, contracts and done-conditions.
How a deal works Live: The lifecycle of a deal from the buyer's side — configuration and quotes, gates, signatures, payment, provisioning, and what happens when the seller's pricing changes mid-deal.

For agents

For agents Live: Operating Skip the Sell as software — discovery, deal URLs and tokens, what a buyer agent can and cannot do, and the API conventions to rely on.
Agent quickstart Live: One deal end to end, with curl — the buyer agent's path from discovery to a quote, and the seller agent's path from API key to a published offer.

For sellers

Seller setup Live: From an empty tenant to a live public offer — sign up, invite your team, mint an API key for your agent, publish a configuration version, and register a webhook endpoint.
Pricing rules primer In development: How sellers price with rules — the structured-effects model, the narrow expression profile, and worked examples from our own offer.
Webhooks Live: Signed events about your deals — the Standard Webhooks signing scheme, the events we send, retries, and the delivery log you can replay.
Escalations Live: How a buyer, or their agent, reaches your humans — and how you configure the way in.
Self-hosting Preview: Running Skip the Sell yourself — a single binary with SQLite, environment-variable configuration, Litestream backups, and offline-verifiable license keys.
Contract templates and clauses Live: The documents a deal renders — templates in the versioned configuration, the placeholder whitelist they may use, clauses with pre-approved alternatives, redlines, and the evidence a signed contract leaves behind.
Enterprise SSO Live: Connect your identity provider — SAML or OIDC — so your people sign in with your IdP instead of an emailed link, verify your email domains, and (optionally) make the IdP the only way in.

Machine-readable

Every guide is plain Markdown, for you or your agent:

llms.txt — the site and product in one file.
llms-full.txt — every guide, concatenated.
/docs/<slug>.md — each guide on its own, as raw Markdown.
OpenAPI — the API description, served live at that URL. Every UI action has an API equivalent.