# Derive Jobs API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-jobs-api/  
**Provider:** Derive — https://apis.io/providers/derive-to/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.derive.to/reference/api/

Derive Jobs API is one of 28 APIs that [Derive](https://apis.io/providers/derive-to/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 6 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Job. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 6 JSON Schemas.

One unit of agent work: someone asked, a schedule fired, or a graph opened a node. People ask, follow, answer, cancel, and retry; runners pull and report.

## Operations (8)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/v1/jobs` | List jobs in the active workspace, newest first |
| POST | `/v1/jobs` | Ask an agent to do something. |
| GET | `/v1/jobs/{id}` | One job with its transcript |
| POST | `/v1/jobs/{id}/messages` | Write to a job. Running: appended for the next turn. Settled: the job reopens |
| POST | `/v1/jobs/{id}/cancel` | Cancel an open job (and its children) |
| POST | `/v1/jobs/{id}/attach` | Let your SSH key into your running interactive session's machine |
| POST | `/v1/jobs/{id}/retry` | Run a failed or lost job again |
| POST | `/v1/jobs/{id}/answer` | Answer a job that is waiting on a person |

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **OpenAPI** — https://artifacts.apis.io/derive-to/openapi/derive-to-jobs-api-openapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/derive-to/json-schema/derive-to-artifact-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/derive-to/json-schema/derive-to-job-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/derive-to/json-schema/derive-to-context-analysis-info-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/derive-to/json-schema/derive-to-agent-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/derive-to/json-schema/derive-to-comment-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/derive-to/json-schema/derive-to-collection-schema.json

## Other Derive APIs (12)

- [Derive Accounts API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-accounts-api/)
- [Derive Activity API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-activity-api/)
- [Derive Agents API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-agents-api/)
- [Derive Analytics API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-analytics-api/)
- [Derive Artifacts API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-artifacts-api/)
- [Derive Assets API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-assets-api/)
- [Derive Collections API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-collections-api/)
- [Derive Comments API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-comments-api/)
- [Derive Contexts API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-contexts-api/)
- [Derive Domains API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-domains-api/)
- [Derive Exports API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-exports-api/)
- [Derive Favorites API](https://apis.io/apis/derive-to/derive-to-favorites-api/)

## Tags

Job

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