> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.parable.work/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Publishing

> Understand the responsible role that prepares, coordinates, and carries out Parable work within the accountable boundary.

# Publishing responsibility

## Sources

Docs: [Primary responsibility](/ponder/parables/permissions/primary)

Web App: Open **Collaboration → Participants** to search actors and edit RACI
assignments. **Collaboration → Publishing** holds publication actions and history;
**Collaboration → Pushes** searches and lists Workspace destinations.

**Publishing** is the customer-facing name for the responsible role on a
Parable. Responsible people do the work needed to move an outcome forward:
authoring, coordinating, preparing evidence, resolving review feedback, and
running the allowed publication or recovery actions.

The accountable Primary remains answerable for decisions reserved to that
seat. One person can hold both responsibilities when the current policy allows
it, but the meanings remain distinct.

## Work within the visible boundary

A Publishing responsibility does not grant Workspace access or make every
action available. The current surface, Parable state, target, and responsibility
are checked together. Disabled actions remain visible with an explanation when
the product can safely show them.

Use the role to:

* keep one coherent Patch moving through review;
* gather the required Proofs and collaborators;
* prepare or propose work when it is ready;
* carry out reversible operational actions within the allowed scope; and
* escalate accountable decisions to Primary rather than treating urgency as
  permission.

If the responsibility is wrong, update it through the supported **Collaboration → Participants**
flow. A mention, Ping, Persona, Power, or Ponder Message cannot assign
it implicitly.

## Delegate within your responsibility

Publishing can assign Publishing, Pinging, or Peeping to other participants.
The existing Primary assignment must remain unchanged. Moving Primary to
yourself, another person, a Role, or a Workspace requires an existing Primary
to make the change. Renaming a Role does not change its participant permissions.

## Choose Publishing mode when authoring

Responsibility and current activity are separate. A Responsible or Primary
person can choose [Publishing mode](/ponder/parables/permissions/collaboration-modes)
when they intend to author, review publication state, or use the complete set of
controls their responsibility already permits. The mode cannot widen that
responsibility.