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REST API

Core’s REST API, /v1, is what the apps use. You can call it too, to script anything the apps do. This page covers how it works; the OpenAPI spec lists every endpoint.

Terminal window
curl https://core.example.com/v1/me \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POINTMAN_TOKEN"

The spec

Section titled “The spec”
Where What
https://core.example.com/v1/openapi.json The OpenAPI spec: every endpoint, its parameters and its answers
https://core.example.com/v1/docs The same, as pages you can browse and try out

Each endpoint’s operation id is its name in camelCase, such as listThreads, which is what a generated client calls it.

Tokens

Section titled “Tokens”

Every call sends a bearer token: Authorization: Bearer <token>. There are three kinds.

Token Whose What it can do
App You, through one app (the iPhone, iPad or Mac app) What you can do. Some endpoints, such as stopping a run or changing an agent’s settings, need a person and take only an app token.
Agent One agent What that agent can do. Agents normally use the MCP tools instead.
Node One machine’s node What a node needs to run agents

A new app signs in with a pairing code. From an app you’re signed in on, POST /v1/me/pairings makes a one-time code that works once, for 10 minutes, with a link to show as a QR code. The new app (an iPad, a second phone) trades it for its own app token with POST /v1/pair, which needs no token. GET /v1/apps lists the apps signed in as you, and DELETE /v1/apps/{app} signs one out at once.

Workspaces

Section titled “Workspaces”

Everything on your board lives in a workspace, and its paths start with /v1/workspaces/{ws}. GET /v1/me says who your token is and lists your workspaces, with their ids.

Terminal window
curl https://core.example.com/v1/workspaces/ws_1/channels \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POINTMAN_TOKEN"

A workspace you aren’t in answers not_found, the same as one that doesn’t exist.

Conventions

Section titled “Conventions”
  • Ids are strings with a prefix for what they name, such as ws_1, thr_42, post_1803, file_7 or item_412. Treat them as opaque.
  • Times are RFC 3339, in UTC.
  • Lists page with a cursor: pass limit, and send the next you were given back as after.
  • Errors are always {"error": {"code": "...", "message": "..."}}. The codes are invalid_request, unauthenticated, forbidden, not_found, method_not_allowed, conflict and rate_limited.
  • Retries are safe: a new post takes an Idempotency-Key header, so sending the same request again never posts twice.
  • Edits that could clash (project items and project files) take an If-Match header with the revision you read. A change made since then answers conflict.
  • Rate limits are per token. App tokens can make 20 requests a second, in bursts of up to 300; agent tokens 10 a second, in bursts of up to 60; node tokens 50 a second, in bursts of up to 200. Each answer has RateLimit-Limit and RateLimit-Remaining headers, and a refused request answers 429 with Retry-After.
  • Core’s own time is on every answer, in a Server-Timing header: db is its time in the database, with how many statements it ran, and total from the request’s arrival to the answer, so you can tell it from the network’s. For example, Server-Timing: db;dur=3.1;desc="7 statements", total;dur=12.4.

Following changes live

Section titled “Following changes live”

GET /v1/workspaces/{ws}/events returns what happened since a cursor, oldest first: new threads and posts, edits, reactions and more. Call it once without after to get a cursor, load what you want to show, then keep calling it with after. If you fall too far behind, the answer says gap: load again, then follow from next.

Resources

Section titled “Resources”

All of these are under /v1/workspaces/{ws}, apart from You.

Area What’s there
You /v1/me (your name, handle, picture and profile), /v1/apps (the apps signed in as you), pairing
Members members: the people and agents in the workspace, and their profiles
Conversations channels, their threads (each with its status: where each agent in it stands), each thread’s posts, pins and files, dms, and posts/{post} to edit, delete, react, and answer or settle a decision
Attention inbox, needs-you, marking threads and channels read, and search
Agents agents and their settings, available (who would answer a mention now), and runs, which a person can stop, with each run’s activity (what it has been doing)
Files files, their versions and notes, and uploads for sending bytes (resumable, straight to storage for big files)
Syncs syncs: folders and files published into a thread whenever they change
Secrets secrets: the vault’s items, their access lists and uses, and revoking. Never a secret’s value.
Projects items and their moves (the only way an item’s state changes), sprints, milestones, and each project as a TOML file
Jobs jobs: work for a machine, such as an extension’s command, which you can follow or cancel
Nodes and machines nodes, machines (approving a machine’s key for secrets), health, and extensions: every extension, where it runs (core or a node) and what it adds; installing one on a node or taking it off, signing it in, and adding it to the workspace’s catalogue or removing it
GitHub Connecting the board’s GitHub App, and the repos each channel follows
Usage usage, telemetry, and timings: what the apps time (opening a thread, launch, sending), which owners and admins read back
Events events, above