# VICE Auctions - Complete Public Reference

VICE Auctions is an auction-marketplace interface for browsing categories and public listings. It also supports protected seller, bidding, checkout, import, and webhook workflows when its backing services are configured.

## Runtime truth

- Version: 0.6.0
- Public catalog status: unavailable
- Evidence: database_not_configured
- Unavailable data is not represented as zero and mock inventory is not published.

## Public discovery

- Health: https://vice.platphormnews.com/api/health
- API documentation: https://vice.platphormnews.com/api/docs
- OpenAPI: https://vice.platphormnews.com/openapi.yaml
- RSS: https://vice.platphormnews.com/rss.xml
- Atom: https://vice.platphormnews.com/feed.xml
- Sitemap: https://vice.platphormnews.com/sitemap.xml
- Trust policy: https://vice.platphormnews.com/.well-known/trust.json

## Public categories

- Category data is unavailable because the public catalog database is not reachable.

## Active public listings

- Listing data is unavailable because the public catalog database is not reachable.

## MCP status

The public MCP surface is introspection-only until site-native handlers are registered. No auction tool execution is claimed by this document.

## Authentication

Public-safe reads and discovery do not require credentials. Mutations, bidding, checkout, imports, webhooks, administration, and other protected actions require Authorization: Bearer $PLATPHORM_API_KEY or X-PlatPhorm-API-Key: $PLATPHORM_API_KEY in addition to any product-account authorization required by the action.