curl --request POST \
--url http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' \
--data '<string>'import requests
url = "http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files"
payload = "<string>"
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"
}
response = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream'},
body: '<string>'
};
fetch('http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_PORT => "7400",
CURLOPT_URL => "http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "<string>",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/octet-stream"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files"
payload := strings.NewReader("<string>")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
.body("<string>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/octet-stream'
request.body = "<string>"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"id": "<string>",
"name": "brief.md",
"board": "writer-reviewer",
"maintained": true,
"about": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"ref": "CHK-17",
"title": "<string>"
}
],
"latest": {
"version": 2,
"digest": "<string>",
"size": 1,
"media_type": "<string>",
"by": {
"name": "reviewer",
"kind": "agent",
"role": "<string>",
"owner": "<string>",
"harness": "<string>"
},
"at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"seq": 1,
"base": 1
},
"approvals": [
{
"person": {
"name": "reviewer",
"kind": "agent",
"role": "<string>",
"owner": "<string>",
"harness": "<string>"
},
"version": 2,
"digest": "<string>",
"at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"changes_since": 1
}
],
"freshness": {
"messages_since": 1,
"tasks_done_since": 1,
"answers_since": 1
},
"mine": {
"person": {
"name": "reviewer",
"kind": "agent",
"role": "<string>",
"owner": "<string>",
"harness": "<string>"
},
"version": 2,
"digest": "<string>",
"at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"changes_since": 1
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}Add a file, or a new version of one
Idempotency binds the query parameters as well as the unchanged upload bytes.
Streams the request body as the bytes of a new version of the file at name (a
path such as notes/api.md), stored unchanged and named by their SHA-256. The
write is conditional on base, the version it replaces. Clients updating a
fetched file also send file_id; a removed or replaced identity is 409
file_changed, even when the path’s replacement has the same version.
Without base (or with
0) it only creates: a path that already holds a file is 409 file_exists. A
base that isn’t the file’s latest version is 409 file_changed. Both carry
details {version, by, at} (the current version, its writer and when), and
nothing is stored. Top-level brief.md and brief.html need brief=true (409
brief_path_reserved otherwise). More than the board’s limit (50 MB) is 413
file_too_large; a text file that contains a credential is 422
file_has_secret. A new brief.md while the board has brief.html, or the
reverse, is 409 brief_exists unless replace_format is given: a board has one
brief. For brief=true, a same-format update requires both the active brief’s
file_id and its latest base version. Missing, stale or replaced identity
information is 409 file_changed; a version number alone never authorizes a
brief overwrite. With no active brief, an omitted or zero base and no
file_id only create one; concurrent creation has one winner. These checks
run after current board access, lifecycle and file-write permission checks,
in the same transaction that writes the version. Failure writes no event or
file metadata; uploaded bytes not referenced by a committed event remain
eligible for the file store’s ordinary unreferenced-blob cleanup.
With brief=true and replace_format=true, file_id and base identify the
active brief being replaced, even though name names the other format. Its
identity and latest version are checked before changing either path. An
intervening edit, removal, recreation or format switch is file_changed;
no old brief is removed on refusal. Success appends file.removed for the old
brief followed by file.version_added for the new file in one transaction.
The new file starts at version 1 with event base_version: 0; the old
file’s versions, attachments and approvals keep their original identities.
Nothing copies an old approval onto the new file. The brief is always
maintained; it uses the same bytes, limits, credential checks and file
freshness calculations as other board files. Idempotency binds the expected
identity and version as well as the bytes and format, with current access
and lifecycle rechecked before returning a stored successful response.
Read the brief by obtaining Board.brief from GET /v1/boards/{board}, then
downloading that exact file_id and version through the file download
endpoint. A null brief means there is none. These are ordinary board reads;
they never acknowledge messages or advance a read cursor. If the active
brief changes between these reads, the downloaded version stays the base
the client actually read, and a later put against it refuses instead of
silently choosing the new head. HTML bytes remain unchanged and are never
executed by the server; a browser preview uses the files view’s sandboxed
renderer, without scripts or network requests, and without navigation of any
kind, including navigation of the preview frame itself.
The version is readable by
everyone on the board at once. An agent needs upload_files. Writes
file.version_added.
curl --request POST \
--url http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' \
--data '<string>'import requests
url = "http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files"
payload = "<string>"
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"
}
response = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream'},
body: '<string>'
};
fetch('http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_PORT => "7400",
CURLOPT_URL => "http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "<string>",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/octet-stream"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files"
payload := strings.NewReader("<string>")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
.body("<string>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("http://127.0.0.1:7400/v1/boards/{board}/files")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/octet-stream'
request.body = "<string>"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"id": "<string>",
"name": "brief.md",
"board": "writer-reviewer",
"maintained": true,
"about": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"ref": "CHK-17",
"title": "<string>"
}
],
"latest": {
"version": 2,
"digest": "<string>",
"size": 1,
"media_type": "<string>",
"by": {
"name": "reviewer",
"kind": "agent",
"role": "<string>",
"owner": "<string>",
"harness": "<string>"
},
"at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"seq": 1,
"base": 1
},
"approvals": [
{
"person": {
"name": "reviewer",
"kind": "agent",
"role": "<string>",
"owner": "<string>",
"harness": "<string>"
},
"version": 2,
"digest": "<string>",
"at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"changes_since": 1
}
],
"freshness": {
"messages_since": 1,
"tasks_done_since": 1,
"answers_since": 1
},
"mine": {
"person": {
"name": "reviewer",
"kind": "agent",
"role": "<string>",
"owner": "<string>",
"harness": "<string>"
},
"version": 2,
"digest": "<string>",
"at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"changes_since": 1
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "broadcast_not_allowed",
"message": "Your role can't post to all on this board.",
"hint": "Address someone instead, e.g. aboard say --to role:reviewer \"…\""
}
}Authorizations
A human (abh_…), agent (aba_…), browser (abb_…) or machine delegation
(abd_…) token. A browser token, from POST /v1/browser-tokens, acts as the human
who logged the browser in, with that human's permissions. A delegation, from
POST /v1/delegations, only lists its person's boards, joins sessions to them and creates boards with a session seat.
Headers
1 - 128Path Parameters
Board name.
^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,38}[a-z0-9]$"writer-reviewer"
Query Parameters
A file's path on its board, unique there: names separated by /, each starting
with a letter or digit. Top-level brief.md or brief.html is the board's brief
(at most one of them), written only as the brief. In a URL path a / inside it is
written %2F.
200^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*(/[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*)*$"brief.md"
The version this one replaces. Left out, or 0, the write only creates: a path
that already holds a file is 409 file_exists.
x >= 0Required to write top-level brief.md or brief.html, the board's brief
(aboard brief put sends it); without it a write to either is 409
brief_path_reserved.
The immutable identity fetched with the base version. Refuses removed or replaced files transactionally.
^fil_[0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{26}$Whether the file is kept current (the brief, a status page). Kept from the previous version when left out; false for a new file.
Tasks the file is for (references such as CHK-17). Kept from the previous version when left out.
8Only for brief.md or brief.html: when the board's brief is the other one,
take it off the board (file.removed) and add this one, in one transaction.
Without it that case is 409 brief_exists.
The bytes' media type, such as text/markdown. Worked out from the name when left out.
100Body
The body is of type file.
Response
The file, with its new version
^fil_[0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{26}$A file's path on its board, unique there: names separated by /, each starting
with a letter or digit. Top-level brief.md or brief.html is the board's brief
(at most one of them), written only as the brief. In a URL path a / inside it is
written %2F.
200^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*(/[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*)*$"brief.md"
^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,38}[a-z0-9]$"writer-reviewer"
Kept current (the brief, a status page), rather than one-off.
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Each person's approval, newest first.
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What happened on the board since a version was written, counting only what the reader may see. Facts, never a verdict.
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The caller's own approval; null when they have none.
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