REST Overview - Automagik Suite Documentation

Overview

Forge provides a comprehensive REST API for programmatic access to all features. Build integrations, automate workflows, or create custom tooling.

Base URL: http://localhost:8887/api (default)

Authentication

API Keys (Coming Soon)

Currently, Forge runs locally without authentication. API key authentication will be added for remote deployments.

# Future API key usage
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  http://localhost:8887/api/projects

GitHub OAuth

For web UI access, GitHub OAuth is used. API access uses session cookies.

Base URL

# Local development (default)
BASE_URL=http://localhost:8887

# Custom port (if configured)
BASE_URL=http://localhost:9000

# Remote deployment
BASE_URL=https://forge.yourdomain.com

Response Format

Success Response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    // Response data
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "version": "0.4.4"
  }
}

Error Response

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "TASK_NOT_FOUND",
    "message": "Task with id 'abc123' not found",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"
  }
}

Error Codes

Code	HTTP Status	Description
`VALIDATION_ERROR`	400	Invalid request parameters
`UNAUTHORIZED`	401	Authentication required
`FORBIDDEN`	403	Insufficient permissions
`NOT_FOUND`	404	Resource not found
`CONFLICT`	409	Resource conflict
`RATE_LIMIT`	429	Too many requests
`INTERNAL_ERROR`	500	Server error

Pagination

List endpoints support pagination:

GET /api/tasks?page=1&limit=20

Response:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [...],
  "pagination": {
    "page": 1,
    "limit": 20,
    "total": 156,
    "pages": 8,
    "hasNext": true,
    "hasPrev": false
  }
}

Parameters:

page: Page number (1-indexed)
limit: Items per page (max: 100)

Filtering & Sorting

Filtering

# Filter by status
GET /api/tasks?status=in_progress

# Multiple filters
GET /api/tasks?status=pending&priority=high

# Filter by label
GET /api/tasks?labels=feature,backend

Sorting

# Sort by created date (descending)
GET /api/tasks?sort=-created_at

# Sort by priority (ascending)
GET /api/tasks?sort=priority

# Multiple sort fields
GET /api/tasks?sort=-priority,created_at

Sort prefix:

- = Descending
No prefix = Ascending

API Endpoints

Core Resources

Projects

Manage Forge projects

GET /api/projects
POST /api/projects
GET /api/projects/:id
PATCH /api/projects/:id
DELETE /api/projects/:id

Tasks

Manage tasks and workflows

GET /api/tasks
POST /api/tasks
GET /api/tasks/:id
PATCH /api/tasks/:id
DELETE /api/tasks/:id

Attempts

Manage task attempts

GET /api/attempts
POST /api/attempts
GET /api/attempts/:id
DELETE /api/attempts/:id

Processes

Monitor running processes

GET /api/processes
GET /api/processes/:id
POST /api/processes/:id/cancel

Quick Examples

Get All Tasks

curl http://localhost:8887/api/tasks

Create New Task

curl -X POST http://localhost:8887/api/tasks \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "title": "Add user authentication",
    "description": "Implement JWT-based auth",
    "projectId": "project-123",
    "llm": "claude",
    "priority": "high",
    "labels": ["feature", "backend"]
  }'

Update Task Status

curl -X PATCH http://localhost:8887/api/tasks/task-123 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "status": "in_progress"
  }'

Start Task Attempt

curl -X POST http://localhost:8887/api/attempts \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "taskId": "task-123",
    "llm": "claude",
    "options": {}
  }'

Rate Limiting

Current limits (local deployment):

No rate limits for local usage

Future limits (remote deployment):

- 60 requests per minute per IP
- 1000 requests per hour per user

Rate limit headers:

X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 45
X-RateLimit-Reset: 1642248000

Webhooks

Subscribe to Forge events:

POST /api/webhooks
{
  "url": "https://your-server.com/webhook",
  "events": ["task.created", "task.completed", "attempt.failed"],
  "secret": "your-webhook-secret"
}

Webhook payload:

{
  "event": "task.completed",
  "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z",
  "data": {
    "taskId": "task-123",
    "status": "completed",
    "duration": 322000
  },
  "signature": "sha256=abc123..."
}

WebSocket API

Real-time updates via WebSocket:

const ws = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:8887/ws');

ws.onopen = () => {
  // Subscribe to task updates
  ws.send(JSON.stringify({
    type: 'subscribe',
    channel: 'tasks',
    taskId: 'task-123'
  }));
};

ws.onmessage = (event) => {
  const update = JSON.parse(event.data);
  console.log('Task update:', update);
};

Update messages:

{
  "type": "task.status_changed",
  "taskId": "task-123",
  "status": "in_progress",
  "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"
}

SDK Libraries

JavaScript/TypeScript

npm install @automagik/forge-sdk

import { ForgeClient } from '@automagik/forge-sdk';

const forge = new ForgeClient({
  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8887'
});

// Create task
const task = await forge.tasks.create({
  title: 'Add authentication',
  projectId: 'project-123',
  llm: 'claude'
});

// Start attempt
const attempt = await forge.attempts.create({
  taskId: task.id,
  llm: 'claude'
});

Python

pip install automagik-forge

from automagik_forge import ForgeClient

forge = ForgeClient(base_url='http://localhost:8887')

# Create task
task = forge.tasks.create(
    title='Add authentication',
    project_id='project-123',
    llm='claude'
)

# Start attempt
attempt = forge.attempts.create(
    task_id=task.id,
    llm='claude'
)

API Versioning

Current version: v1 (implicit) Future versioning:

# Explicit version in URL
GET /api/v1/tasks

# Or via header
GET /api/tasks
Accept: application/vnd.forge.v1+json

OpenAPI Specification

Download the full OpenAPI spec:

# JSON format
curl http://localhost:8887/api/openapi.json > forge-api.json

# YAML format
curl http://localhost:8887/api/openapi.yaml > forge-api.yaml

Import into tools like:

Postman
Insomnia
Swagger UI
API clients

Testing the API

Using cURL

# Set base URL
BASE=http://localhost:8887/api

# Get all tasks
curl $BASE/tasks

# Create task
curl -X POST $BASE/tasks \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @task.json

# Pretty print JSON
curl $BASE/tasks | jq

Using HTTPie

# Install HTTPie
brew install httpie

# Get tasks (cleaner syntax)
http localhost:8887/api/tasks

# Create task
http POST localhost:8887/api/tasks \
  title="Add feature" \
  projectId="project-123" \
  llm="claude"

Using Postman

Import OpenAPI spec: http://localhost:8887/api/openapi.json
Set environment variable: baseUrl = http://localhost:8887
Start making requests

Best Practices

Use SDK Libraries

Use official SDKs instead of raw HTTP:

// Good ✅
forge.tasks.create({...})

// Avoid ❌
fetch('/api/tasks', {...})

SDKs handle auth, retries, typing

Handle Errors

try {
  const task = await forge.tasks.create({...});
} catch (error) {
  if (error.code === 'VALIDATION_ERROR') {
    // Handle validation
  } else if (error.code === 'NOT_FOUND') {
    // Handle not found
  }
}

Use Pagination

Don’t fetch all at once:

// Good ✅
const tasks = await forge.tasks.list({
  page: 1,
  limit: 20
});

// Bad ❌
const allTasks = await forge.tasks.list({
  limit: 10000
});

Cache Responses

const cache = new Map();

async function getTask(id) {
  if (cache.has(id)) {
    return cache.get(id);
  }

  const task = await forge.tasks.get(id);
  cache.set(id, task);
  return task;
}

Next Steps

Projects API

Manage Forge projects

Tasks API

Create and manage tasks

Attempts API

Execute tasks with AI agents

MCP Tools

Use Forge from AI coding agents

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

GitHub OAuth token obtained via device flow

Query Parameters

project_id

string<uuid>

required

Project ID to filter tasks

Response

200 - application/json

List of tasks with attempt status

The response is of type any.

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Documentation Index

​Overview

​Authentication

​API Keys (Coming Soon)

​GitHub OAuth

​Base URL

​Response Format

​Success Response

​Error Response

​Error Codes

​Pagination

​Filtering & Sorting

​Filtering

​Sorting

​API Endpoints

​Core Resources

Projects

Tasks

Attempts

Processes

​Quick Examples

​Get All Tasks

​Create New Task

​Update Task Status

​Start Task Attempt

​Rate Limiting

​Webhooks

​WebSocket API

​SDK Libraries

​JavaScript/TypeScript

​Python

​API Versioning

​OpenAPI Specification

​Testing the API

​Using cURL

​Using HTTPie

​Using Postman

​Best Practices

Use SDK Libraries

Handle Errors

Use Pagination

Cache Responses

​Next Steps

Projects API

Tasks API

Attempts API

MCP Tools

Authorizations

Query Parameters

Response

Overview

Authentication

API Keys (Coming Soon)

GitHub OAuth

Base URL

Response Format

Success Response

Error Response

Error Codes

Pagination

Filtering & Sorting

Filtering

Sorting

API Endpoints

Core Resources

Quick Examples

Get All Tasks

Create New Task

Update Task Status

Start Task Attempt

Rate Limiting

Webhooks

WebSocket API

SDK Libraries

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

API Versioning

OpenAPI Specification

Testing the API

Using cURL

Using HTTPie

Using Postman

Best Practices

Next Steps