# Check what agents will receive (/docs/creators/review)

Agents pay for passages, not for your files, so the passages are what you're
selling. This page shows how to check them while your dataset is still a draft.

## Follow your files [#follow-your-files]

While quarry works on a file, its card on the **Files** tab shows **Queued**, then
**Preparing**. Once the file is ready, the card shows how many passages it has. Large
files and scanned PDFs take a few minutes. When every file is ready, quarry says so
at the top of the tab.

A file that shows **Needs attention** couldn't be read. Its card says why, for example:

* the PDF has more than 2,000 pages;
* the file produced too many passages, so it needs to be split;
* reading it took too long.

Each file is tried three times on its own. After that, click **Retry** on the card,
or the "Retry 2 failed" button (with your own count) at the top of the tab. If a
file keeps failing, [delete it](#delete-a-file) and upload a corrected copy.

## Delete a file [#delete-a-file]

While the dataset is a draft, open the file's ⋮ menu on the **Files** tab, choose
**Delete**, and confirm with **Delete file**. The file and its passages are gone for
good. Past questions and payments stay: in **Recent questions**, **Answered by**
shows a dash where the passage came from that file.

## Read a file the way quarry did [#read-a-file-the-way-quarry-did]

Open a file to see the document on the left and what quarry made of it on the
right.

![A file opened in the Files tab: the document on the left, and the passages quarry cut from it on the right.](/docs/screenshots/file-light-18950099.png)

* The **Passages** tab lists every passage in order, grouped by page. "No page" means
  the file has no pages, as with text files and images.
* On the right, the **Document** tab shows the text quarry extracted, element by
  element.
* For many files, PDFs and PowerPoint included, the target icon on a passage
  (**Show in document**) points to where it sits in the original.
* **Search passages** finds a word or a heading across the whole file.
* **Export** lets you **Download Markdown**, **Download JSON**, or **Copy passages**.

The line under the file name rates how cleanly quarry read it: "Good quality", "Fair
quality", or "Needs review". Fair often means a scan or an image; it's usually fine,
but skim a few passages. Needs review means quarry wasn't confident: compare the
passages with the document, and upload a cleaner copy if the text is wrong. A single
passage can also carry a **Needs review** badge.

While the dataset is a draft, you can read a file again from scratch with
**Process again**. Its passages are replaced, so their "Used in" counts start over.
A live dataset is locked: unpublish it first.

## Test like an agent [#test-like-an-agent]

The **Test** tab runs the same search agents do (see
[Ask a test question](/docs/creators#ask-a-test-question)). A few things to know:

* Choose how many passages come back: 5, 10, or 20, as an agent can.
* **Try asking about** suggests questions built from your headings.
* **Best match** marks the first passage. The bar next to **Match** compares each
  passage with that first one; it isn't an absolute score.
* **Open in file** takes you to the passage in its file.

Testing is free, and test questions don't show up in your sales.

## When the passages aren't right [#when-the-passages-arent-right]

An agent pays for every question that gets an answer, even when your files cover the
topic poorly: quarry always returns the closest passages it has. So make sure the
passages are good, and tell agents what's inside in your dataset's description.

* If the text looks garbled, upload a cleaner copy, such as a PDF exported from Word
  rather than a scan.
* If a topic is missing, add the file that covers it.
* If passages cut across unrelated sections, add clear headings to the file and
  upload it again.

Once the passages look right, [set your price](/docs/creators/pricing) and
[publish](/docs/creators#publish).