app/docs/code/api.md

The HTTP API

Everything the browser does, the API does first. The dashboard is a generated client of this schema, not a privileged path into the engine — so anything you can click, you can script.

Base URL: https://api.${DOMAIN}/api/v1, or http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1 for a fluksio serve installation.

export FLUKSIO=http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1

Authenticating

export TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST $FLUKSIO/login/access-token \
  -d "username=admin@example.com&password=..." | jq -r .access_token)

curl -s $FLUKSIO/users/me -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

A bearer token, valid for eight days. POST /login/test-token checks one. Password recovery and reset are POST /password-recovery/{email} and POST /reset-password/.

Agents authenticate differently — see Agents over MCP.

!!! tip "The interactive schema"

When `ENVIRONMENT` is not `production`, the full OpenAPI schema is at
`/docs` (Swagger) and `/redoc`, and the raw document at
`/api/v1/openapi.json`. That is the authoritative reference; this page is
the tour.

It is closed in production on purpose: the schema enumerates every endpoint
the installation serves, including the paths webhook nodes mounted at
runtime.

Flows

Method	Path	What
GET	/flows/	every flow, with node counts, draft and running state
GET	/flows/{name}	one flow — the draft if there is one — with node status and issues
PUT	/flows/{name}	save a draft (version must match, or 409)
POST	/flows/{name}/publish	put the draft live
POST	/flows/{name}/discard-draft	throw the draft away
POST	/flows/{name}/rename	rename it
DELETE	/flows/{name}	delete it
GET	/flows/node-types	every node type and its parameter schema
GET	/flows/graph	every flow as one graph — what Home draws

Reading a flow returns the draft when one exists, along with a preview of how it would run: node statuses and validation issues for the version you are editing, not the one running underneath it.

Node source

curl -s $FLUKSIO/flows/house/nodes/decide/source -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
curl -X PUT $FLUKSIO/flows/house/nodes/decide/source -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"code": "def process(x):\n    return {\"y\": x * 2}\n"}'

POST .../share promotes a node's source to the shared library; POST .../unshare gives it a private copy back. GET /flows/library lists the shared sources and which flows use each.

Running and controlling

Method	Path	What
POST	/flows/{name}/start · /stop	activate or tear down its subscriptions and schedules
POST	/flows/{name}/pause · /resume	hold messages instead of running them
POST	/flows/{name}/step	release exactly one held message
POST	/flows/{name}/validate	the issues, without saving
POST	/flows/{name}/run	run every node once, from the values you pass
POST	/flows/{name}/nodes/{id}/trigger	feed values into one node
POST	/flows/{name}/nodes/{id}/cancel	kill the worker running it right now
POST	/flows/{name}/nodes/{id}/acknowledge	clear the failure the canvas is marking

POST /flows/{name}/run on a batch flow submits a run instead, because that is what running one means — the parameters, the series and the result are the point, and a call that quietly did something else would be a trap.

Messages

curl -s $FLUKSIO/messages/ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
curl -X POST $FLUKSIO/messages/house.setpoint -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"value": 22.5}'
curl -s $FLUKSIO/messages/house.temperature/history -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

GET /messages/ is the catalogue: every message any published flow declares, with its last value. Publishing puts a value into the graph exactly as a dashboard control does — which means only a message some flow declares can be published to. Flows own the namespace; everything else is a client of it.

Runs

Method	Path	What
POST	/runs/flows/{name}	queue one run — {"params": {...}, "seed": 7, "draft": false, "no_cache": false}. "cause" says where it came from — api (the default), cli or sdk
POST	/runs/flows/{name}/sweep	queue many, sharing a group_id
GET	/runs	the queryable history: ?flow=, ?status=, ?group=, ?digest=, ?limit=, ?offset=
GET	/runs/overview	one row per flow that has runs, with how many are running or queued
GET	/runs/{id}	one run in full: params, result, per-node record, artifacts
POST	/runs/{id}/cancel	stop it
GET	/runs/{id}/metrics?name=&stride=	one metric's series, in step order; every series of the run without name
GET	/runs/series/compare?ids=a,b,c&metric=&x=	that metric across several runs. x is what to plot against: nothing or step, time (seconds since each run's own first reading), or another metric's name, joined on the step the two share

Submitting answers immediately with a queued run. Wrong parameters — an undeclared name, a value of the wrong type — come back as a 422 naming the problem, before anything executes.

?digest= filters by the hash of the parameters, which is how you find "every run that used exactly this configuration".

compare answers in the same shape a chart widget draws, so three training curves side by side is a widget binding rather than a screen of its own.

See Runs: pipelines that finish.

Artifacts

curl -X PUT $FLUKSIO/artifacts -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --data-binary @model.pt
curl -s $FLUKSIO/artifacts/sha256:abc... -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -o model.pt

Content-addressed, so uploading the same bytes twice stores them once. Node code normally reaches these through fluksio.save_artifact / fluksio.load_artifact rather than here.

Dashboards and panels

Method	Path	What
GET	/dashboards/	every dashboard, without its contents
GET	/dashboards/{name}?draft=true	the published document, or the editor's copy
POST	/dashboards/{name}	create one
POST	/dashboards/from-flow/{flow}	build {flow}_results from a batch flow's declared ports — a chart per streamed metric, a stat per output. 409 if it already exists
PUT	/dashboards/{name}	save a draft
POST	/dashboards/{name}/publish · /discard · /rename
GET PUT	/panels/	which device shows which dashboards
POST	/panels/pair	start a pairing
GET	/panels/pair/{code}	what is holding a code
POST	/panels/{id}/unpair	drop this panel's credential, keep the panel

Secrets, modules, alerts

curl -s $FLUKSIO/secrets/ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"          # names only
curl -X PUT $FLUKSIO/secrets/influx-token -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"value": "..."}'

curl -s $FLUKSIO/modules/ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
curl -X POST $FLUKSIO/modules/apply -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"requirements": "numpy>=2\n"}'

curl -s $FLUKSIO/alerts/config -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
curl -X POST $FLUKSIO/alerts/test/my-phone -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

Secrets are write-only over the API: you can list names and set values, never read one back.

Observability

Path	What
/observability/summary	engine health — always 200, degraded or not
/observability/timeseries	executions and failures over a window
/observability/flows	per-flow rollups with a 60-slice trend
/observability/runs	recent cascades, with ?flow=, ?since=, ?until=
/observability/events?kind=failure|audit	what went wrong, or who changed what; narrows by ?flow=, ?run=, ?since=, ?until=
/observability/dead-letter	work the engine gave up on

GET /utils/health/ is the deep health check the container probe uses: it fails when the event loop is wedged or the state backend is gone, not just when the process is dead.

Workers

Method	Path	What
GET	/workers	what is attached, its labels and how busy it is
POST	/workers/tokens	mint a worker credential (superuser; shown once)
GET	/workers/runtime	the node runner's source, for a host without pip
WS	/workers/attach	where a worker dials in

See Remote workers.

Live events

ws://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/flows/ws?token=<access token>

The websocket authenticates from its query string. It sends a snapshot on connect and then every engine event: node executions, values published, health changes, run started and finished. This is what the canvas and the dashboards draw from.

Errors

Code	Means
400	the request was malformed, or the node refused it with a message
401 / 403	not signed in, or not allowed
404	no such flow, dashboard, run or message
409	someone else saved first — the body carries current_version
422	a parameter, port or binding did not typecheck
503	that subsystem is not available on this installation

A 409 on a save or a publish is not an error to retry blindly: it means the stored version moved past the one you were editing. Re-read, merge, save again.

Generating a client

The frontend's TypeScript client is generated from the OpenAPI schema (make generate-client). Any OpenAPI generator will do the same for your language — point it at /api/v1/openapi.json on a non-production installation.