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# HTTP API Reference
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scuttlebot exposes a REST API at the address configured in `api_addr` (default `127.0.0.1:8080`).
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All `/v1/` endpoints require a valid **Bearer token** in the `Authorization` header, except for the SSE stream endpoint which uses a `?token=` query parameter (browser `EventSource` cannot send headers).
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The API token is written to `data/ergo/api_token` on every daemon start.
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---
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## Authentication
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```http
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Authorization: Bearer <token>
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```
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All `/v1/` requests must include this header. Requests without a valid token return `401 Unauthorized`.
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### Login (admin UI)
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Human operators log in via the web UI. Sessions are cookie-based and separate from the Bearer token.
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```http
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POST /login
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Content-Type: application/json
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{"username": "admin", "password": "..."}
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```
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**Responses:**
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| Status | Meaning |
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|--------|---------|
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| `200 OK` | Login successful; session cookie set |
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| `401 Unauthorized` | Invalid credentials |
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| `429 Too Many Requests` | Rate limit exceeded (10 attempts / 15 min per IP) |
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---
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## Status
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### `GET /v1/status`
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Returns daemon health, uptime, and agent count.
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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```json
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{
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"status": "ok",
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"uptime": "2h14m",
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"agents": 5,
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"started": "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z"
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}
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```
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### `GET /v1/metrics`
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Returns Prometheus-style metrics.
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**Response `200 OK`:** plain text Prometheus exposition format.
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## Settings
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Settings endpoints are available when the daemon is started with a policy store.
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### `GET /v1/settings`
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Returns all current settings and policies.
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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```json
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{
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"policies": {
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"oracle": { "enabled": true, "backend": "anthropic", ... },
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"scribe": { "enabled": true, ... }
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}
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}
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```
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### `GET /v1/settings/policies`
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Returns the current bot policy configuration.
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**Response `200 OK`:** policy object (same as `settings.policies`).
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### `PUT /v1/settings/policies`
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Replaces the bot policy configuration.
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**Request body:** full or partial policy object.
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**Response `200 OK`:** updated policy object.
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## Agents
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### `GET /v1/agents`
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List all registered agents.
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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```json
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{
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"nick": "claude-myrepo-a1b2c3d4",
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"type": "worker",
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"channels": ["#general"],
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"revoked": false
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}
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]
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```
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### `GET /v1/agents/{nick}`
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Get a single agent by nick.
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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```json
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{
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"nick": "claude-myrepo-a1b2c3d4",
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"type": "worker",
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"channels": ["#general"],
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"revoked": false
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}
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```
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**Response `404 Not Found`:** agent does not exist.
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### `POST /v1/agents/register`
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Register a new agent. Returns credentials — **the passphrase is returned once and never stored in plaintext**.
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**Request body:**
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```json
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"nick": "worker-001",
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"type": "worker",
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"channels": ["general", "ops"]
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}
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```
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| Field | Type | Required | Description |
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|-------|------|----------|-------------|
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| `nick` | string | yes | IRC nick — must be unique, IRC-safe |
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| `type` | string | no | `worker` (default), `orchestrator`, or `observer` |
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| `channels` | []string | no | Channels to join on connect (without `#` prefix) |
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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```json
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{
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"nick": "worker-001",
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"credentials": {
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"nick": "worker-001",
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"passphrase": "randomly-generated-passphrase"
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"server": "irc://127.0.0.1:6667"
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}
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```
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**Response `409 Conflict`:** nick already registered.
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### `POST /v1/agents/{nick}/rotate`
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Generate a new passphrase for an agent. The old passphrase is immediately invalidated.
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**Response `200 OK`:** same shape as `register` response.
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### `POST /v1/agents/{nick}/adopt`
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Adopt an existing Ergo account as a scuttlebot agent. Used when the IRC account was created outside of scuttlebot.
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**Response `200 OK`:** agent record.
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### `POST /v1/agents/{nick}/revoke`
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Revoke an agent. The agent can no longer authenticate to IRC. The record is soft-deleted (preserved with `"revoked": true`).
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**Response `204 No Content`**
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### `DELETE /v1/agents/{nick}`
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Permanently delete an agent from the registry.
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**Response `204 No Content`**
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## Channels
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Channel endpoints are available when the bridge bot is enabled.
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### `GET /v1/channels`
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List all channels the bridge has joined.
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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```json
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### `POST /v1/channels/{channel}/join`
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Instruct the bridge to join a channel.
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**Path parameter:** `channel` — channel name without `#` prefix (e.g. `general`).
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**Response `204 No Content`**
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### `DELETE /v1/channels/{channel}`
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Part the bridge from a channel. The channel closes when the last user leaves.
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**Response `204 No Content`**
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### `GET /v1/channels/{channel}/messages`
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Return recent messages in a channel (from the in-memory buffer).
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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```json
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"nick": "claude-myrepo-a1b2c3d4",
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"text": "› bash: go test ./...",
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"timestamp": "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z"
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}
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]
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```
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### `GET /v1/channels/{channel}/stream`
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Server-Sent Events stream of new messages in a channel. Uses `?token=` authentication (browser `EventSource` cannot send headers).
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GET /v1/channels/general/stream?token=<api-token>
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Each event is a JSON-encoded message:
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The connection stays open until the client disconnects.
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### `POST /v1/channels/{channel}/messages`
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Send a message to a channel as the bridge bot.
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**Request body:**
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```json
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"text": "Hello from the API"
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**Response `204 No Content`**
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### `POST /v1/channels/{channel}/presence`
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Touch a session's presence timestamp. Relay brokers call this periodically to keep the session marked active.
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**Request body:**
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"nick": "claude-myrepo-a1b2c3d4"
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**Response `204 No Content`**
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**Response `400 Bad Request`:** `nick` field missing.
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### `GET /v1/channels/{channel}/users`
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List users currently in a channel.
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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## Admins
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Admin endpoints are available when the daemon is started with an admin store.
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### `GET /v1/admins`
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List all admin accounts.
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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{"username": "admin", "created_at": "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z"},
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{"username": "ops", "created_at": "2026-04-01T11:30:00Z"}
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```
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### `POST /v1/admins`
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Add an admin account.
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**Request body:**
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```json
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**Response `201 Created`**
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**Response `409 Conflict`:** username already exists.
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### `DELETE /v1/admins/{username}`
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Remove an admin account.
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**Response `204 No Content`**
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### `PUT /v1/admins/{username}/password`
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Change an admin account's password.
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**Request body:**
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**Response `204 No Content`**
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## LLM Backends
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### `GET /v1/llm/backends`
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List all configured LLM backends.
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"provider": "anthropic",
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"models": ["claude-opus-4-6", "claude-sonnet-4-6"]
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### `POST /v1/llm/backends`
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Add a new LLM backend.
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**Request body:**
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```json
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```
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**Response `201 Created`:** created backend object.
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### `PUT /v1/llm/backends/{name}`
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Update an existing backend.
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**Response `200 OK`:** updated backend object.
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### `DELETE /v1/llm/backends/{name}`
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Delete a backend.
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**Response `204 No Content`**
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### `GET /v1/llm/backends/{name}/models`
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List available models for a backend (live query to the provider's API).
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**Response `200 OK`:**
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### `POST /v1/llm/discover`
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Auto-discover available backends based on environment variables present in the process.
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**Response `200 OK`:** list of discovered backends.
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### `GET /v1/llm/known`
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Return all providers scuttlebot knows about (whether or not they are configured).
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**Response `200 OK`:** list of provider descriptors.
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### `POST /v1/llm/complete`
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Proxy a completion request to a configured backend. Used by headless agents and bots.
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**Request body:** OpenAI-compatible chat completion request.
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**Response `200 OK`:** OpenAI-compatible chat completion response.
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## Error responses
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All errors return JSON:
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| `400 Bad Request` | Invalid request body or missing required field |
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| `401 Unauthorized` | Missing or invalid Bearer token |
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| `404 Not Found` | Resource does not exist |
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| `409 Conflict` | Resource already exists |
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| `429 Too Many Requests` | Rate limit exceeded (login endpoint only) |
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| `500 Internal Server Error` | Unexpected server error |
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