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A partner’s sales agent is tested before it sells for publishers. Not every partner agent you can connect to has finished that testing. Apostra tells you which ones haven’t, so you can decide whether to connect and what to do if you already have.

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Where you see it

The status is one read-only field, agentCertification, on:
  • Partner agents in your list. Each partner row of search({ "kind": "agent" }) in a Seller Account, and the same agent read with get({ "kind": "agent", "id": "AGENT_ID" }), carries it. You see it before you choose an agent. Your organization’s own agents (own rows) don’t carry it: their certification stays in the account that owns them. See Connect to a partner agent.
  • Inventory sources. A source you attached to a partner agent through save_inventory_source with an agentId carries the agent’s agentCertification on search({ "kind": "inventory_source" }) and on get({ "kind": "inventory_source", "id": "SOURCE_ID" }). It is null when the source has no partner agent, when its agent is one your own organization owns, or when the agent is not certified, exempt or in a beta.
  • The Connect sales agent task and Source diagnostics. The task shows the status beside each partner agent, and Source diagnostics shows it on the Powered by Agent card of a source that runs through a partner agent.
The field has two parts:

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What each status means

When more than one applies, Apostra shows the first in this order: certified, then exempt, then beta. An agent that is not certified has not passed Apostra’s live certification, so the check a certification gives you is not complete yet. It can still be a good agent. Certification belongs to the agent, not to each publisher: when the agent passes, every publisher connected to it is covered.

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What happens when an exemption or beta ends

Apostra decides the status from the agent’s current record each time you read it, so it changes on its own:
  • If the agent passes certification, the status becomes certified and endsAt is null.
  • If an exemption or beta ends first, the agent no longer shows exempt or beta. An agent that holds none of the three has agentCertification: null. Without a certification or an exemption, Apostra sends new buys to the agent only for the use cases it has passed. See The certification deadline.

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What you can do

  • Choose before you connect. The status is on the partner agent row, so you can decide before you open the connection form. Connect only if you accept an agent that is not yet certified.
  • Stop selling through the agent. To disconnect a source from the agent, set the source’s status to DISABLED with save_inventory_source. A disabled source stops selling. Nothing is deleted, and you can set it back to ACTIVE later.
  • Contact the partner. The row and the Powered by Agent card name the partner. Ask the partner when its agent expects to pass certification, or how it handles buys until then. The partner’s sign-up link, where it gave one, is on the row.
  • Keep it and watch the status. The status is information. It does not pause or change a source by itself. Read the source again to see whether it has changed.

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What buyers see

Buyers never see which partner a seller connects through, and they never see this status. It is for the publisher who connects the agent.
The Connect sales agent task and Source diagnostics are MCP apps, so they need a host that renders them. See MCP Apps host.