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Trigger a job now (queue a manual run).

POST
/v1/admin/jobs/{job_id}/run
curl --request POST \
--url http://localhost:8080/v1/admin/jobs/example/run \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{ "host_id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0" }'

“The framework requests; the job decides.” A manual run IGNORES THE WINDOW — an operator pressing Run now has said what they want about timing — and NEVER ignores the job’s own safety gates: a runner that refuses (a host with live sessions, say) reports deferred, which is an outcome and not an error. A run is queued, not executed inline: the response is 202 with the pending run’s id, and eta_note is a plain string the UI renders verbatim (“the host claims due jobs about every 60 s” for an agent-plane job) so Run now does not read as broken for a minute. If a pending run already exists it is PULLED FORWARD rather than duplicated — at most one open run per (job, target) is a database invariant. Audited as job.run.

job_id
required
string

Jobs framework (2026-08-12): a job’s id. NOT a uuid — it is the code-owned dotted identifier from the registry (“artwork.sweep”, “template.warmup”), which is also the jobs primary key, so the id in a URL is the same string an operator reads in a log line. That is deliberate: a job’s identity is authored in code and reconciled at boot, never minted by a database default.

Media typeapplication/json

An EMPTY BODY IS VALID and is what an instance-scoped job’s Run now sends.

object
host_id

REQUIRED for a host-scoped job (400 without it) and NOT ALLOWED for an instance-scoped one (400 with it) - “which host” is not an optional detail when a run is per-host, and there is no defaulting to “some host”.

string | null format: uuid
Examplegenerated
{
"host_id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0"
}

Run queued.

Media typeapplication/json

202 body. The run is QUEUED, not executed inline - the response describes a pending row.

object
run_id
required
string format: uuid
state
required

The run lifecycle: pending -> running -> one terminal state. ‘deferred’ means the job’s OWN gate refused (a host with live sessions, say) - an outcome, not an error, and the dispatcher schedules the retry on a persisted backoff ladder. ‘skipped’ means there was nothing to do. ‘aborted’ is the claim-timeout reaper’s verdict on a run nobody reported; it is the one state an agent may never report about itself.

string
Allowed values: pending running succeeded failed deferred skipped aborted
scheduled_for
required

Now, for a manual run - a manual trigger bypasses the window. It never bypasses the job’s own gates.

string format: date-time
eta_note
required

A plain human string the UI renders VERBATIM, e.g. “queued; the host claims due jobs about every 60 s” for an agent-plane job. It exists so Run now does not read as broken for the minute before the host polls. CLIENTS MUST NOT PARSE IT.

string
Example
{
"state": "pending"
}

Validation_failed — malformed body, or host_id missing for a host-scoped job / supplied for an instance-scoped one.

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

E.g. validation_failed, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, session_quota_exceeded, home_in_use, home_not_provisioned, parent_app_disabled, profile_ineligible, profile_not_launchable_for_app, no_host_available, capacity_exhausted, restart_required, rate_limited, internal. Open string, not an enum: new codes are additive and an unknown one falls through to a client’s generic per-status branch.

string
message
required
string
live_sessions

Present on restart_required.

integer
session_id

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on home_in_use when the guard could name the CONFLICTING live session - the one already holding the home. It is here so the client can offer “go to your running session” with a link instead of a dead-end toast. OMITTED rather than empty when the conflict is known but the session is not, so a client branches on presence and never renders a link to nowhere. Load-bearing once derived tiles exist: the lock is held by the PARENT’s home, so a user who clicks a game tile can be refused because a DIFFERENT app (the Steam launcher, or another game from the same install) is running, and without the session id the refusal reads as a bug. See control-api.md §Derived tiles.

string format: uuid
derived_tiles

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on the 409 conflict from DELETE /v1/apps/{id} when the app has derived tiles and ?delete_derived=true was not sent. A LIST, not a count - the point of the confirmation is that the admin sees what they are about to destroy. Capped; an empty array means the tiles could not be listed, never that there are none.

Array<object>
object
id
required
string format: uuid
name
required
string
Examplegenerated
{
"error": {
"code": "example",
"message": "example",
"live_sessions": 1,
"session_id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"derived_tiles": [
{
"id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"name": "example"
}
]
}
}

Missing/invalid/expired/revoked token.

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

E.g. validation_failed, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, session_quota_exceeded, home_in_use, home_not_provisioned, parent_app_disabled, profile_ineligible, profile_not_launchable_for_app, no_host_available, capacity_exhausted, restart_required, rate_limited, internal. Open string, not an enum: new codes are additive and an unknown one falls through to a client’s generic per-status branch.

string
message
required
string
live_sessions

Present on restart_required.

integer
session_id

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on home_in_use when the guard could name the CONFLICTING live session - the one already holding the home. It is here so the client can offer “go to your running session” with a link instead of a dead-end toast. OMITTED rather than empty when the conflict is known but the session is not, so a client branches on presence and never renders a link to nowhere. Load-bearing once derived tiles exist: the lock is held by the PARENT’s home, so a user who clicks a game tile can be refused because a DIFFERENT app (the Steam launcher, or another game from the same install) is running, and without the session id the refusal reads as a bug. See control-api.md §Derived tiles.

string format: uuid
derived_tiles

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on the 409 conflict from DELETE /v1/apps/{id} when the app has derived tiles and ?delete_derived=true was not sent. A LIST, not a count - the point of the confirmation is that the admin sees what they are about to destroy. Capped; an empty array means the tiles could not be listed, never that there are none.

Array<object>
object
id
required
string format: uuid
name
required
string
Examplegenerated
{
"error": {
"code": "example",
"message": "example",
"live_sessions": 1,
"session_id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"derived_tiles": [
{
"id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"name": "example"
}
]
}
}

Authenticated but insufficient role / not the owner (precedes resource lookup).

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

E.g. validation_failed, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, session_quota_exceeded, home_in_use, home_not_provisioned, parent_app_disabled, profile_ineligible, profile_not_launchable_for_app, no_host_available, capacity_exhausted, restart_required, rate_limited, internal. Open string, not an enum: new codes are additive and an unknown one falls through to a client’s generic per-status branch.

string
message
required
string
live_sessions

Present on restart_required.

integer
session_id

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on home_in_use when the guard could name the CONFLICTING live session - the one already holding the home. It is here so the client can offer “go to your running session” with a link instead of a dead-end toast. OMITTED rather than empty when the conflict is known but the session is not, so a client branches on presence and never renders a link to nowhere. Load-bearing once derived tiles exist: the lock is held by the PARENT’s home, so a user who clicks a game tile can be refused because a DIFFERENT app (the Steam launcher, or another game from the same install) is running, and without the session id the refusal reads as a bug. See control-api.md §Derived tiles.

string format: uuid
derived_tiles

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on the 409 conflict from DELETE /v1/apps/{id} when the app has derived tiles and ?delete_derived=true was not sent. A LIST, not a count - the point of the confirmation is that the admin sees what they are about to destroy. Capped; an empty array means the tiles could not be listed, never that there are none.

Array<object>
object
id
required
string format: uuid
name
required
string
Examplegenerated
{
"error": {
"code": "example",
"message": "example",
"live_sessions": 1,
"session_id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"derived_tiles": [
{
"id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"name": "example"
}
]
}
}

No such resource.

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

E.g. validation_failed, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, session_quota_exceeded, home_in_use, home_not_provisioned, parent_app_disabled, profile_ineligible, profile_not_launchable_for_app, no_host_available, capacity_exhausted, restart_required, rate_limited, internal. Open string, not an enum: new codes are additive and an unknown one falls through to a client’s generic per-status branch.

string
message
required
string
live_sessions

Present on restart_required.

integer
session_id

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on home_in_use when the guard could name the CONFLICTING live session - the one already holding the home. It is here so the client can offer “go to your running session” with a link instead of a dead-end toast. OMITTED rather than empty when the conflict is known but the session is not, so a client branches on presence and never renders a link to nowhere. Load-bearing once derived tiles exist: the lock is held by the PARENT’s home, so a user who clicks a game tile can be refused because a DIFFERENT app (the Steam launcher, or another game from the same install) is running, and without the session id the refusal reads as a bug. See control-api.md §Derived tiles.

string format: uuid
derived_tiles

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on the 409 conflict from DELETE /v1/apps/{id} when the app has derived tiles and ?delete_derived=true was not sent. A LIST, not a count - the point of the confirmation is that the admin sees what they are about to destroy. Capped; an empty array means the tiles could not be listed, never that there are none.

Array<object>
object
id
required
string format: uuid
name
required
string
Examplegenerated
{
"error": {
"code": "example",
"message": "example",
"live_sessions": 1,
"session_id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"derived_tiles": [
{
"id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"name": "example"
}
]
}
}

Job_already_running, job_disabled (a disabled job never runs, not even manually), or job_unmanaged.

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

E.g. validation_failed, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, session_quota_exceeded, home_in_use, home_not_provisioned, parent_app_disabled, profile_ineligible, profile_not_launchable_for_app, no_host_available, capacity_exhausted, restart_required, rate_limited, internal. Open string, not an enum: new codes are additive and an unknown one falls through to a client’s generic per-status branch.

string
message
required
string
live_sessions

Present on restart_required.

integer
session_id

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on home_in_use when the guard could name the CONFLICTING live session - the one already holding the home. It is here so the client can offer “go to your running session” with a link instead of a dead-end toast. OMITTED rather than empty when the conflict is known but the session is not, so a client branches on presence and never renders a link to nowhere. Load-bearing once derived tiles exist: the lock is held by the PARENT’s home, so a user who clicks a game tile can be refused because a DIFFERENT app (the Steam launcher, or another game from the same install) is running, and without the session id the refusal reads as a bug. See control-api.md §Derived tiles.

string format: uuid
derived_tiles

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on the 409 conflict from DELETE /v1/apps/{id} when the app has derived tiles and ?delete_derived=true was not sent. A LIST, not a count - the point of the confirmation is that the admin sees what they are about to destroy. Capped; an empty array means the tiles could not be listed, never that there are none.

Array<object>
object
id
required
string format: uuid
name
required
string
Examplegenerated
{
"error": {
"code": "example",
"message": "example",
"live_sessions": 1,
"session_id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"derived_tiles": [
{
"id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
"name": "example"
}
]
}
}