File MarketCopy Anchor Link

Sell your research files to other debaters, or buy theirs. Anyone can read a file's table of contents for free; buying it unlocks every card — cites, card text and highlighting — and saves the whole file to your own files.

• Route: /research/market (every file for sale and your wallet) and /research/market/[id] (one file).
• Package: debate-file-market (outline preview, prices, top-ups, wire types, browser client, D1 migration), debate-webview (the pages and the Sell dialog), and apps/debate-ai.com (API, queries, Stripe webhook).
• API: GET /api/market; GET/POST /api/market/listings; GET/DELETE /api/market/listings/[id]; POST /api/market/listings/[id]/purchase; POST /api/market/listings/[id]/copy; POST /api/market/top-up.

Your walletCopy Anchor Link

Every account has a wallet balance in US dollars. Add money with the Add $10 or Add $20 buttons: they open Stripe's secure payment page, and the money lands in your wallet as soon as Stripe confirms the payment. Money from files you sell is added to the same wallet. Guest accounts have no wallet.

Selling a fileCopy Anchor Link

Right-click a file in the Files sidebar (or open its … menu) and choose Sell…. The Share with contacts dialog has a Sell… button for the open file too. Set a price between $0.50 and $500 and check the free preview — the file's pockets, hats, blocks and tags — then choose Sell. Copy the link from the confirmation to share it.

• Buyers get a copy of the file as it was when you chose Sell. To give buyers a newer version, choose Sell… again; that also changes the price.
• Stop selling in the same dialog takes it off the market. Anyone who already bought it keeps it.
• Folders can't be sold; sell the files inside them.

Buying a fileCopy Anchor Link

Open a file from the market to read its table of contents. Buy pays the price from your wallet to the seller's, saves the full file to your files and opens it in the editor. If your wallet doesn't cover the price, add money from the same page. Each file can be bought once per account; Open a copy in my files saves another copy any time.

How it worksCopy Anchor Link

• The preview is the file's h1–h4 headings and nothing else. For an uploaded .cmir file the browser reads the headings with the CardMirror engine and sends them with the sell request; the server keeps at most 1,000 headings of 200 characters each.
• A top-up is a one-off Stripe Checkout Session created with STRIPE_SECRET_KEY and tagged with the buyer's account. The wallet is credited only by the signed checkout.session.completed (or checkout.session.async_payment_succeeded) webhook, once per session, and never for more than the option's amount.
• Every balance change is a single guarded update and is also written to the wallet_transactions ledger.

Known gapsCopy Anchor Link

• Wallet balance can't be withdrawn yet; sellers' earnings stay in their wallet to spend on other files.
• No refunds from the site; a disputed purchase is handled in Stripe and by hand.
• The market lists the 200 most recently updated files, with no search yet.