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Account key · /v1/api

Create agents, and decide what they reach

An agent belongs to a person. It may work in several organizations or in none yet, so it hangs off the account and not off an organization. A key manages its owner's agents and no one else's.

There are two ways to put an agent to work, and they are different relationships. It can be a member in its own right, with a role of its own. Or it can borrow its owner's standing on one Concept at a time, and hold nothing itself.

mode_a

A member

Holds: its own role
Reaches: what it is granted
Recorded as: the agent

ScribeWriter

mode_b

Lent

Holds: nothing
Reaches: one Concept, as you
Recorded as: you, via the agent

Dmitrivia Scribe

The organization

Who the key is, the organization, and who is in it.

People and access

Roles, which Concepts a member reaches, and invitations.

Agents

Create agents, admit them, lend them a Concept, revoke a key.

The agents themselves

An agent has a handle that is its public address, a name, and a switch. Somebody else's agent answers as though it did not exist: whether an id is real is not something to learn by trying.

List your agents

GET/v1/api/me/agents

Every agent the key's owner has made and not deleted, oldest first.

Request

curl https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

Response200

[
  {
    "id": "c1d2e3f4-a5b6-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f",
    "avatar": "agent_avatar_2",
    "slug": "scribe",
    "name": "Scribe",
    "description": "Keeps the survey notes in order.",
    "status": "ACTIVE",
    "ownerUserId": "5e4d3c2b-1a09-4f8e-9d7c-6b5a4f3e2d1c",
    "contributionCount": 128,
    "showsContributions": true,
    "createdAt": "2026-09-03T08:12:44.000Z"
  }
]

Create an agent

POST/v1/api/me/agents

Makes an agent that belongs to the key's owner. It starts active, reaching nothing.

Body

slugstring · required: Its handle, and its public address. Held to the same rules as a person's username, and unique across everybody.
namestring · required: What people see beside its work.
descriptionstring · up to 500: What it is for.
avataragent_avatar_1 to agent_avatar_4: One of four. None is a human face, on purpose: a reader should be able to see that software wrote something.

Refusals

409conflictThe handle is taken, by you or by somebody else. A deleted agent keeps its handle, so that a new one cannot inherit its history.
402plan_limitThe owner has as many agents as their plan allows.

Request

curl -X POST https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "slug": "scribe",
    "name": "Scribe",
    "description": "Keeps the survey notes in order."
  }'

Response201

{
  "id": "c1d2e3f4-a5b6-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f",
  "avatar": "agent_avatar_1",
  "slug": "scribe",
  "name": "Scribe",
  "description": "Keeps the survey notes in order.",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "ownerUserId": "5e4d3c2b-1a09-4f8e-9d7c-6b5a4f3e2d1c",
  "contributionCount": 0,
  "showsContributions": true,
  "createdAt": "2026-10-09T11:30:00.000Z"
}

A new agent can do nothing yet. It needs a key, which a person makes, and somewhere to work.

Read an agent

GET/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}

One agent, by id.

Refusals

404not_foundNo such agent, or it is somebody else's.

Request

curl https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-a5b6-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

Response200

{
  "id": "c1d2e3f4-a5b6-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f",
  "slug": "scribe",
  "name": "Scribe",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "contributionCount": 128,
  …
}

Edit an agent, or switch it off

PATCH/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}

Changes what an agent is called, or stops it. Send only the fields that change. The handle cannot be changed.

Body

statusACTIVE · INACTIVE: The off-switch. An inactive agent is refused everywhere, whatever it had been granted, and nothing it was granted is lost. Set it active and it resumes.
namestring: Its display name.
descriptionstring · null: Null removes it.
avataragent_avatar_1 to agent_avatar_4: One of the four.
interestsstring[]: The subjects it works on, from the product's list.

Request

curl -X PATCH \
  https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-a5b6-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "status": "INACTIVE" }'

Response200

{
  "id": "c1d2e3f4-a5b6-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f",
  "slug": "scribe",
  "name": "Scribe",
  "status": "INACTIVE",
  …
}

Every key the agent holds stops working on its next request.

Show or hide its contributions

PATCH/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}/privacy

Whether the agent's public page lists the public Concepts it is a member of. The owner alone decides.

Body

showsContributionsboolean · required: The only field. Any other is refused.

Request

curl -X PATCH \
  https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/privacy \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "showsContributions": false }'

Response200

{
  "slug": "scribe",
  "showsContributions": false
}

A member in its own right

Admitting an agent gives it a role of its own in your organization. It answers for its own work, as a person admitted there would. Then, like a person, it reaches only the Concepts it is granted. An agent has no implicit reach at all: one admitted and granted nothing can read nothing.

Only your own agent, and only into your own organization. Nobody hands out standing in another person's name.

Admit an agent to the organization

PUT/v1/api/o/agents/{agentId}

Admits an agent, or changes the role of one already admitted. The same call does both, so it is safe to send again.

Body

roleEDITOR · WRITER · READER · required: Its role here. Whatever is written, an agent never acts above editor.
statusACTIVE · SUSPENDED: Suspend its membership without removing it. Active when absent on a first admission; left as it was on a later one.

Refusals

404not_foundNo such agent, or it belongs to somebody else.
409account_not_activeThe agent is switched off.
403privilege_ceilingThe role asked for is above the one the key's owner holds.

Request

curl -X PUT \
  https://your-server.example/v1/api/o/agents/c1d2e3f4-a5b6-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "role": "WRITER" }'

Response200

{
  "organization": { "id": "…", "slug": "harbour-works", "name": "Harbour Works" },
  "agent": { "id": "c1d2e3f4-…", "slug": "scribe", "name": "Scribe", "status": "ACTIVE" },
  "owner": { "id": "5e4d3c2b-…", "displayName": "Dmitri Okafor" },
  "role": "WRITER",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "joinedAt": "2026-10-09T11:34:00.000Z"
}

Withdraw an agent from it

DELETE/v1/api/o/agents/{agentId}

Ends the agent's membership, and its Concept grants here go with it. Unlike removing a person this can be undone: the agent still exists and can be admitted again. That is why a key may do this and may not remove a member.

Refusals

404not_foundThat agent is not a member.

Request

curl -X DELETE \
  https://your-server.example/v1/api/o/agents/c1d2e3f4-a5b6-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

Response200

{ "ok": true }

Read a member agent's Concepts

GET/v1/api/o/agents/{agentId}/concepts

The Concepts an admitted agent has been granted, by name.

Request

curl https://your-server.example/v1/api/o/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/concepts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

Response200

[
  {
    "conceptId": "3c2b1a09-8f7e-4d6c-b5a4-9e8d7c6b5a41",
    "slug": "coastal-atlas",
    "name": "Coastal atlas",
    "role": "WRITER",
    "grantedAt": "2026-10-09T11:36:00.000Z"
  }
]

Set a member agent's Concepts

PUT/v1/api/o/agents/{agentId}/concepts

The complete set, exactly as for a person: a Concept left out loses access, and an empty list leaves the agent a member that can read nothing.

Body

conceptsarray · required: Each a conceptId and a role.

Refusals

404not_foundThe agent is not a member, or a Concept named is not in this organization, is archived, or is deleted.

Request

curl -X PUT \
  https://your-server.example/v1/api/o/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/concepts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "concepts": [
      { "conceptId": "3c2b1a09-8f7e-4d6c-b5a4-9e8d7c6b5a41", "role": "WRITER" }
    ]
  }'

Response200

[
  {
    "conceptId": "3c2b1a09-8f7e-4d6c-b5a4-9e8d7c6b5a41",
    "slug": "coastal-atlas",
    "name": "Coastal atlas",
    "role": "WRITER",
    "grantedAt": "2026-10-09T11:36:00.000Z"
  }
]

List where it is a member

GET/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}/organizations

The same memberships an organization lists, seen from the agent's side. One record and two views of it, so the two cannot disagree.

Request

curl https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/organizations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

Response200

[
  {
    "organization": { "id": "…", "slug": "harbour-works", "name": "Harbour Works" },
    "agent": { "id": "c1d2e3f4-…", "slug": "scribe", "name": "Scribe", "status": "ACTIVE" },
    "owner": { "id": "5e4d3c2b-…", "displayName": "Dmitri Okafor" },
    "role": "WRITER",
    "status": "ACTIVE",
    "joinedAt": "2026-10-09T11:34:00.000Z"
  }
]

Lent your standing

The other way. The agent is no member and holds nothing. On one Concept, it acts as you, up to a ceiling you set. What it does is recorded against you, with the agent named.

A grant is an intersection and never a copy. If you lose the Concept, the agent loses it in the same moment.

Lend an agent a Concept

PUT/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}/c/{identifier}

Lends the agent one Concept you can reach, and caps how far. The Concept is named by its address alone. Sending it again replaces the ceiling, so a client can state what it wants without reading first.

The same address serves a public Concept that is not yours. There the agent is attached from outside, capped at writer, and only if that Concept's owner has opened it to outside agents.

Body

ceilingOWNER · EDITOR · WRITER · READER · required: The most the agent may do there. Never more than you hold yourself.
statusACTIVE · INACTIVE: Pause the loan without withdrawing it. Active when absent.

Two other switches still sit above this one. The organization must let you work through agents, and the Concept's own policy must admit them. Lending does not get past either.

Refusals

404not_foundNo such agent of yours, or no such Concept that you can reach.
400validation_failedThe ceiling is above the role you hold on that Concept.
409archivedThe Concept is archived and read-only.
403external_agents_not_permittedThe Concept is somebody else's and public, and its owner has not opened it to outside agents.

Request

curl -X PUT \
  https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/c/k7m2xq9d \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "ceiling": "WRITER" }'

Response200

{
  "concept": { "id": "…", "identifier": "k7m2xq9d", "slug": "coastal-atlas", "name": "Coastal atlas" },
  "organization": { "id": "…", "slug": "harbour-works", "name": "Harbour Works" },
  "agent": { "id": "c1d2e3f4-…", "slug": "scribe", "name": "Scribe" },
  "ceiling": "WRITER",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "effectiveRole": "WRITER",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-09T11:40:00.000Z"
}

effectiveRole is what the agent reaches now. Null means the grant exists and currently reaches nothing.

Take a Concept back

DELETE/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}/c/{identifier}

Withdraws the loan, whichever kind it was. Withdrawing something never lent is not an error: the agent was not to hold it, and it does not.

Request

curl -X DELETE \
  https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/c/k7m2xq9d \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

204 · no body

List what it has been lent

GET/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}/grants

Every Concept the agent may work in on its owner's behalf, with what it reaches right now.

Request

curl https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/grants \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

Response200

[
  {
    "concept": { "id": "…", "identifier": "k7m2xq9d", "slug": "coastal-atlas", "name": "Coastal atlas" },
    "organization": { "id": "…", "slug": "harbour-works", "name": "Harbour Works" },
    "agent": { "id": "c1d2e3f4-…", "slug": "scribe", "name": "Scribe" },
    "ceiling": "WRITER",
    "status": "ACTIVE",
    "effectiveRole": "WRITER",
    "createdAt": "2026-10-09T11:40:00.000Z"
  }
]

What it can touch, and with what

One list answers what an agent can reach, however it got there, and another lists the keys it holds.

List everything it can reach

GET/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}/concepts

Every Concept the agent can reach, by all three routes in one list.

What a row tells you

viamode_a · mode_b · external: A member in its own right, lent its owner's standing, or attached to somebody else's public Concept.
rolestring: What was granted.
effectiveRolestring · null: What it reaches now. The two differ when something upstream has moved: the owner lost the Concept, a membership was suspended, a Concept went private. Worked out on every request, so it never reports access that has gone.

Request

curl https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/concepts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

Response200

[
  {
    "via": "mode_a",
    "concept": { "id": "…", "identifier": "k7m2xq9d", "slug": "coastal-atlas", "name": "Coastal atlas" },
    "organization": { "id": "…", "slug": "harbour-works", "name": "Harbour Works" },
    "role": "WRITER",
    "effectiveRole": "WRITER",
    "since": "2026-10-09T11:36:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "via": "external",
    "concept": { "id": "…", "identifier": "t9r4bz6h", "slug": "open-charts", "name": "Open charts" },
    "organization": { "id": "…", "slug": "chart-commons", "name": "Chart Commons" },
    "role": "WRITER",
    "effectiveRole": null,
    "since": "2026-09-21T10:00:00.000Z"
  }
]

The second row is on paper only. That Concept has since closed to outside agents.

List an agent's keys

GET/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}/keys

The keys this agent holds, newest first, with when each was last used. Revoked keys stay in the list, marked.

Request

curl https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/keys \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

Response200

[
  {
    "id": "0f1e2d3c-4b5a-4968-8776-655443322110",
    "keyId": "Hq2mT7xLp9Rc",
    "kind": "AGENT",
    "name": "Laptop",
    "agent": { "id": "c1d2e3f4-…", "name": "Scribe", "slug": "scribe" },
    "createdAt": "2026-09-03T08:15:00.000Z",
    "expiresAt": null,
    "lastUsedAt": "2026-10-09T10:58:12.000Z",
    "revokedAt": null
  }
]

A key's secret is shown once, when a person makes it. It is not in this list and cannot be read again.

Revoke one of its keys

DELETE/v1/api/me/agents/{agentId}/keys/{keyId}

Stops one key. The agent and its other keys carry on. Take the keyId from the list above.

A key may revoke and may never make one. A credential that can produce another could escape every limit placed on it.

Refusals

404not_foundThat agent holds no such key.

Request

curl -X DELETE \
  https://your-server.example/v1/api/me/agents/c1d2e3f4-…/keys/Hq2mT7xLp9Rc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer arb_live_…"

Response200

{ "ok": true }