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product route, MCP plan, assistant prompt, and community handoff.","proof":"Live route, JSON API, markdown export, and smoke coverage."},{"id":"learning-path-engine","title":"Learning Path Engine","route":"/learn","mode":"free","buyerQuestion":"What should I learn, install, practice, buy, or escalate next?","deliverable":"Learning modules, skill packs, MCP resources, product handoff, community bridge, and Studio boundary.","proof":"Live route, JSON API, markdown export, product manifest entry, and MCP resource contract."},{"id":"self-serve-kit","title":"Self-Serve Kit Composer","route":"/products/kit","mode":"self_serve","buyerQuestion":"Can this idea become an installable digital product?","deliverable":"Modules, prompts, MCP resources, checkout handoff, and activation rhythm.","proof":"Live composer, API, markdown export, and product manifest entry."},{"id":"paid-digital-products","title":"Paid digital products","route":"/products/delivery","mode":"paid","buyerQuestion":"Which 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Gateway","route":"/mcp","role":"Agent interoperability","whyItMatters":"GenCreator should be usable inside the assistants creators already trust, with tools, resources, prompts, and modes.","boundary":"Read-only, draft-only, and approval-required modes; no external posting in v1."},{"id":"skill-packs","title":"Skill Pack Library","route":"/products/skill-packs","role":"Portable workflows","whyItMatters":"The product becomes useful when a creator can install a workflow into their own assistant and produce one artifact.","boundary":"Skills teach behavior and draft artifacts; they do not claim private implementation support."},{"id":"learning-path","title":"Learning Path Engine","route":"/learn","role":"Self-serve education routing","whyItMatters":"GenCreator becomes easier to buy when a creator can see the right module, skill pack, MCP resource, community bridge, and Studio boundary from one state.","boundary":"The path recommends product and practice routes; it does not replace proof, member entitlement checks, or direct review."},{"id":"creator-vault","title":"Creator Vault","route":"/vault","role":"Reusable creator memory","whyItMatters":"Self-serve product becomes more valuable when voice, offer, proof, source credit, approval, MCP resources, and community review live in one operating state.","boundary":"Browser-local and deterministic until authenticated member vault persistence and entitlement checks are wired."},{"id":"agent-pack","title":"Agent and MCP Pack","route":"/products/agent-pack","role":"Governed assistant stack","whyItMatters":"Roles, prompts, MCP config, and approval policy make the system more valuable than a static prompt file.","boundary":"Agents draft, inspect, and prepare review records; humans approve public actions."},{"id":"eve-workbench","title":"Eve Workbench","route":"/eve","role":"Operating role","whyItMatters":"Eve is the future operator, but starts as a deterministic brief generator until memory and entitlements are stable.","boundary":"No autonomous publishing, charging, deleting, messaging, or external writes."},{"id":"creation-workspace","title":"Creation Workspace","route":"/workspace","role":"Continuity layer","whyItMatters":"Creators need one place where signal, plan, assistant prompt, checkout handoff, and community review stay connected.","boundary":"Browser-local today; member vault persistence belongs behind auth and entitlement checks."},{"id":"checkout-and-fulfillment","title":"Checkout and fulfillment contracts","route":"/products/checkout","role":"Commercial reliability","whyItMatters":"The sales system must state what is bought, what is delivered, what is blocked, and what support is not included.","boundary":"Provider products and gated paid bundles remain explicit blockers until wired."}],"communitySystem":{"route":"https://gencreator.ai/community/onboarding","domain":"GenCreator.community","promise":"Community turns the product into a weekly practice: source pulse, build block, 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Name the buyer, first artifact, delivery format, support boundary, activation plan, MCP resource, community proof loop, and paid upgrade."},{"id":"mcp-product-fit","title":"Check MCP product fit","use":"Use before adding tools or agent features.","prompt":"Audit this workflow for MCP fit. List which parts should be resources, tools, prompts, approval-required actions, and local-only instructions. State what must not be automated."},{"id":"community-proof","title":"Shape the community handoff","use":"Use when moving a creator from product output into community.","prompt":"Turn this finished artifact into a GenCreator.community review request. Include the artifact, one decision question, proof metric, source credit, and next seven-day action."},{"id":"premium-service-gate","title":"Decide if 1:1 is earned","use":"Use before routing a creator into Studio.","prompt":"Decide whether this creator needs Studio or another self-serve loop. Check proof, revenue or audience pressure, campaign clarity, agent readiness, and what direct judgment would change."}],"externalReferences":[{"title":"Model Context Protocol specification","href":"https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25","use":"MCP uses JSON-RPC and standard primitives for hosts, clients, servers, tools, resources, and prompts."},{"title":"MCP security best practices","href":"https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/tutorials/security/security_best_practices","use":"GenCreator should keep authorization, approval, and tool modes explicit before adding external writes."},{"title":"MCP Inspector","href":"https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/tools/inspector","use":"Future GenCreator MCP work should be testable through inspector-style tool, resource, and prompt checks."}]}