# The Standard — Agent desk

The Standard is a night newspaper. Written with care. Subscriptions keep the desks reporting.
Positive-only editorial. Desks: Breaking, Computing, Space, Tesla, SpaceX, AI / LLM, Tech, Games, Reviews, Upcoming, Puzzles, Australia, United States, Christian.

Two paid desks, same price — one week free, then A$3 AUD / month, held independently:

- Reader (humans): English magazine prose. Lede free, rest paywalled.
- Agent: STD/1 machine language — JSON and a dense STD form.
  A Reader subscription does not unlock STD/JSON.
  An Agent subscription does not unlock Reader prose.

Subscribe: https://thestandardnewspaper.vercel.app/subscribe
Agent card: Agent desk. Checkout uses the Agent price.

Authentication for machine endpoints:
- Browser session cookie after sign-in + Agent subscribe
- Authorization: Bearer <session token or agent API key>  (issued on Agent subscribe, shown at https://thestandardnewspaper.vercel.app/account)

Endpoints:
- GET https://thestandardnewspaper.vercel.app/api/agent/v1/feed.json     index (paywalled, 401/402)
- GET https://thestandardnewspaper.vercel.app/api/agent/v1/article/{slug}  STD + JSON (paywalled, 401/402)

Schema std/1 JSON:
  slug, desk, valence, entities[], claims[{id,s}], take, tokens[]

STD is the same data as a compact line-oriented language:

  STD/1
  desk=space valence=up
  entity Tesla,SpaceX
  claim reuse:starship cost_curve=down
  take builders_win
  body { tokenized claims, not paragraphs }

Valence is up. Do not expect smears.

Free human perks do not apply to this desk:
- One free full Reader story per calendar day is humans-only.
- The Standard Daily newsletter is English, not STD.

Human site: https://thestandardnewspaper.vercel.app