Mabl Agent Instruction API

The AgentInstruction API from Mabl — 2 operation(s) for agentinstruction.

Operations 5

GET /agentInstruction Query agent instructions #
POST /agentInstruction Create a new agent instruction #
GET /agentInstruction/{instruction_id} Get an agent instruction #
DELETE /agentInstruction/{instruction_id} Delete an agent instruction #
PATCH /agentInstruction/{instruction_id} Update an agent instruction #

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OpenAPI Specification

mabl-agentinstruction-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: mabl Agent Instruction API
  description: APIs for interacting with mabl services
  version: 0.599.3.1792436330
  x-readme-id: 62c896636916ce01d2ff4f5a
servers:
- url: /
security:
- basicAuth: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: AgentInstruction
paths:
  /agentInstruction:
    get:
      tags:
      - AgentInstruction
      summary: Query agent instructions
      description: Query agent instructions for a workspace with optional filters
      operationId: queryAgentInstructions
      parameters:
      - name: workspace_id
        in: query
        description: The ID of the workspace to query instructions for
        required: true
        style: form
        explode: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: capability
        in: query
        description: Filter by capability (returns instructions that include this capability)
        required: false
        style: form
        explode: true
        schema:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInstructionCapability'
      - name: application_id
        in: query
        description: Filter by application ID (returns instructions that include this application)
        required: false
        style: form
        explode: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: environment_id
        in: query
        description: Filter by environment ID (returns instructions that include this environment)
        required: false
        style: form
        explode: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: test_type
        in: query
        description: Filter by test type (returns instructions that include this test type)
        required: false
        style: form
        explode: true
        schema:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TestTypeEnum'
      - name: limit
        in: query
        description: Maximum number of results to return
        required: false
        style: form
        explode: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int32
      - name: cursor
        in: query
        description: Pagination cursor from a previous query result
        required: false
        style: form
        explode: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The query results
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInstructionQueryResult'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse400'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse403'
        default:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
      x-mabl-action: Read::AgentInstruction
    post:
      tags:
      - AgentInstruction
      summary: Create a new agent instruction
      description: Creates a new agent instruction for a workspace
      operationId: createAgentInstruction
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateAgentInstructionRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '201':
          description: The created agent instruction
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInstruction'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse400'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse403'
        default:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
      x-mabl-action: Create::AgentInstruction
  /agentInstruction/{instruction_id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - AgentInstruction
      summary: Get an agent instruction
      description: Retrieves a specific agent instruction by ID
      operationId: getAgentInstruction
      parameters:
      - name: instruction_id
        in: path
        description: The ID of the agent instruction
        required: true
        style: simple
        explode: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The agent instruction
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInstruction'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse404'
        default:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
      x-mabl-action: Read::AgentInstruction
    delete:
      tags:
      - AgentInstruction
      summary: Delete an agent instruction
      description: Deletes an agent instruction
      operationId: removeAgentInstruction
      parameters:
      - name: instruction_id
        in: path
        description: The ID of the agent instruction to delete
        required: true
        style: simple
        explode: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Successfully deleted
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse404'
        default:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
      x-mabl-action: Delete::AgentInstruction
    patch:
      tags:
      - AgentInstruction
      summary: Update an agent instruction
      description: Updates an existing agent instruction
      operationId: updateAgentInstruction
      parameters:
      - name: instruction_id
        in: path
        description: The ID of the agent instruction to update
        required: true
        style: simple
        explode: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: If-Match
        in: header
        description: ETag for optimistic locking
        required: false
        style: simple
        explode: false
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInstruction'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The updated agent instruction
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInstruction'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse400'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse404'
        default:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
      x-mabl-action: Edit::AgentInstruction
components:
  responses:
    ErrorResponse401:
      description: User not authenticated
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
    ErrorResponse404:
      description: Entity not found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
    ErrorResponse400:
      description: Invalid or missing parameter
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
    ErrorResponse403:
      description: User not authorized
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
    ErrorResponse:
      description: Unknown error
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
  schemas:
    AgentInstructionCapability:
      type: string
      description: Capability that an agent instruction applies to
      enum:
      - authoring
      - recovery
      - results_analysis
      - repair_notes
    TestTypeEnum:
      type: string
      description: Type of test
      enum:
      - api
      - browser
      - performance
      - mobile
      - desktop
      x-mabl-scope: public
    GuardrailApprovalKind:
      type: string
      description: Who decides a guardrail approval. SELF is decided by the person the agent acts for; WORKSPACE, for an agent acting for an API key, by a workspace owner or editor.
      enum:
      - SELF
      - WORKSPACE
    GuardrailRefusal:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: The id of the guardrail policy that decided the refusal.
        reason:
          type: string
          description: Why the policy refuses the request, written for the person the agent acts for.
        decision_id:
          type: string
          description: The id of this decision in the guardrail decision log.
        action:
          type: string
          description: The action the request was evaluated as, written Verb::Resource (for example Delete::Test), as declared by the operation's x-mabl-action extension.
        policy_source:
          type: string
          description: 'Who set the deciding policy: workspace for a rule the workspace''s owners wrote, account for a rule set for the workspace''s account, mabl_agent_type for the agent type''s ceiling, and mabl_default for mabl''s own defaults.'
        approval:
          description: The approval for this request; present when error_code is approval_required and the approval could be recorded. Without it the request cannot be approved.
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailApprovalRef'
      description: The guardrail policy that refused an agent request.
    GuardrailApprovalState:
      type: string
      description: Where a guardrail approval stands. PENDING awaits a decision and expires undecided after 24 hours; APPROVED lets the agent repeat the request, as often as it does, for 20 minutes; DENIED refuses the same request for 20 minutes after the decision, after which asking again opens a new approval; CANCELLED means a person withdrew it while pending or revoked it while approved. EXPIRED and CANCELLED are final.
      enum:
      - PENDING
      - APPROVED
      - DENIED
      - EXPIRED
      - CANCELLED
    GuardrailApprovalRef:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: The approval's id.
        state:
          description: Where the approval stands.
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailApprovalState'
        kind:
          description: Who decides the approval.
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailApprovalKind'
        request_expires_time:
          type: integer
          description: When the approval expires if nobody decides it, in epoch milliseconds.
          format: int64
        url:
          type: string
          description: The mabl app page where a person reviews the approval.
      description: 'An approval a guardrail policy asks for. While it is PENDING, stop: give the person the url, tell them the request is waiting for approval, and do not repeat the request or poll in a loop. Once a person tells you it is APPROVED, repeat the identical request with the header X-Mabl-Approval set to id. DENIED means a person said no, so do not work around it.'
    CreateAgentInstructionRequest:
      required:
      - instruction_text
      - name
      - workspace_id
      type: object
      properties:
        workspace_id:
          type: string
          description: The workspace to create the instruction in
        name:
          type: string
          description: A short name or title for the instruction
        instruction_text:
          type: string
          description: The instruction itself (plain text)
        disabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether the instruction is disabled
        capabilities:
          type: array
          description: Capabilities this instruction applies to
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInstructionCapability'
        test_types:
          type: array
          description: Test types this instruction applies to
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/TestTypeEnum'
        environment_ids:
          type: array
          description: Environment IDs this instruction applies to
          items:
            type: string
        application_ids:
          type: array
          description: Application IDs this instruction applies to
          items:
            type: string
      description: Request body for creating a new agent instruction
    AgentInstruction:
      type: object
      properties:
        instruction_id:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the instruction
        workspace_id:
          type: string
          description: The workspace this instruction belongs to
        name:
          type: string
          description: A short name or title for the instruction
        instruction_text:
          type: string
          description: The instruction itself (plain text)
          x-dao-unindexed: true
        disabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether the instruction is disabled. Disabled instructions are not injected into agent prompts.
        capabilities:
          type: array
          description: Capabilities this instruction applies to
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInstructionCapability'
        test_types:
          type: array
          description: Test types this instruction applies to
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/TestTypeEnum'
        environment_ids:
          type: array
          description: Environment IDs this instruction applies to
          items:
            type: string
        application_ids:
          type: array
          description: Application IDs this instruction applies to
          items:
            type: string
        created_by_id:
          type: string
          description: The user who created this instruction
        created_time:
          type: integer
          description: Creation timestamp in epoch milliseconds
          format: int64
        last_updated_by_id:
          type: string
          description: The user who last updated this instruction
        last_updated_time:
          type: integer
          description: Last update timestamp in epoch milliseconds
          format: int64
      description: A user-defined instruction that tailors agent behavior for a workspace
      x-implements-interface:
      - HasWorkspaceId
      - HasCreatedActivity
      - HasUpdatedActivity
    ErrorResponseGeneric:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          x-mabl-scope: public
        code:
          maximum: 599
          minimum: 100
          type: integer
          format: int32
          x-mabl-scope: public
        message:
          type: string
          x-mabl-scope: public
        error_code:
          type: string
          description: Machine-readable reason for the error, present only when the API names one. Values are guardrail_blocked (a guardrail policy refused an agent request), approval_required (a guardrail policy requires a person to approve the request first).
        guardrail:
          description: The guardrail policy that refused the request; present only when error_code is guardrail_blocked or approval_required.
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailRefusal'
    AgentInstructionQueryResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        agent_instructions:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInstruction'
        cursor:
          type: string
          description: Cursor for fetching the next page of results
      description: Paginated query result for agent instructions
  securitySchemes:
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
    bearerAuth:
      type: apiKey
      name: Authorization
      in: header