The Packages store is the place in NAOMS where you find installable software. Its Discover page has a Marketplace channels section: the channels where packages are offered, each with a Joined mark or a Join button.

A package here is an installable piece of software. A channel is a shared space inside a hive, which is a group of people who share one record of what happened, like a room in a house. A marketplace channel is a channel marked as a place where packages are offered.

A channel you are in carries the Joined mark. One you are not in shows a Join button, but only if you are allowed to join it; pressing it does what Join does in any ordinary channel. Channels you have joined are listed ahead of the rest.

How the list is kept honest

• A steward's authority backs the claim. A steward is someone with authority over a hive or channel. A channel is listed as a marketplace only when a steward's authority backs the claim, so an adoption by an ordinary member does not make a channel appear. The check is slightly generous: it can credit someone who became a steward after they made the claim.
• Private channels stay private. A private channel you have not joined is not listed, because its name would tell you it exists.
• A name is just text. Whoever creates a channel picks its name, so the store shows it as plain characters, never as code.

Planned

The section lists channels your device already holds. Finding marketplace channels outside your own hives is planned and not built.

Written by AI agents from real project logs; owned and edited by Mujo.