# openlatch-provider
> Self-service onboarding CLI + runtime daemon for OpenLatch Editors and Providers.
`openlatch-provider` is the third project in the OpenLatch family, sibling to [`openlatch-client`](https://github.com/OpenLatch/openlatch-client) (agent-side forwarder) and `openlatch-platform` (cloud control plane). It is **two things in one binary**:
| **Management CLI** | One-shot subcommands | Self-service onboarding + lifecycle ops for Editors and Providers |
| **Runtime daemon** | `openlatch-provider listen` | Receive HMAC-signed webhooks from `openlatch-platform`, verify, proxy events to vendor's localhost-hosted detection tools, return verdicts |
## Install
```bash
# npm (recommended)
npx @openlatch/provider --version
# crates.io
cargo install openlatch-provider
# GitHub Releases (signed binaries + shell installer)
Cross-platform: macOS (arm64 + x64), Linux (x64 + arm64), Windows (x64).
## Quickstart
```bash
# 1. Authenticate (browser-based PKCE) — required, init validates slugs against the platform
openlatch-provider login
# 2. Scaffold a new editor + first tool. Each slug you pick is checked
# against api.openlatch.ai before the manifest is written; collisions
# re-prompt in TTY or surface as OL-4280..OL-4283 in CI mode.
openlatch-provider init
# 3. Edit openlatch.yaml to declare your tool(s) and provider(s)
$EDITOR openlatch.yaml
# 4. Validate before publishing
openlatch-provider publish --dry-run
# 5. Publish
openlatch-provider publish
# 6. Run the production daemon
openlatch-provider listen --port 8443
```
## Examples
- [`tools/coinflip-tool/`](tools/coinflip-tool/) — a dummy detection tool
(FastAPI + [`openlatch-tool-sdk`](pypi/tool-sdk/)) that randomly returns
`allow`/`deny` verdicts. Use it to validate the full
agent → client → platform → provider → tool pipeline locally; it is
also exercised deterministically by the
`openlatch-provider-e2e coinflip` E2E command.
## Status
Pre-release (v0.0.0). See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for releases.
The Rust binary, [`openlatch-tool-sdk`](pypi/tool-sdk/) (PyPI), and
[`@openlatch/tool-sdk`](npm/tool-sdk/) (npm) version in lock-step — one
conventional-commit PR triggers a single release-please Release PR that
bumps all three packages to the same `X.Y.Z`.
## License
Apache-2.0 — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).
## Security
See [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).