> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs-stg.outerlayer.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Test a fleet machine key

> The route a fleet runner tests its fleet machine key on. It answers the machine's name and its state, and changes nothing: it stores no report, hands out no build and binds no host key. It refuses a request with the codes of the fleet route. The request is signed by the machine's host key. While the machine has not bound a host key, the request names it in the `hostKey` query parameter. Served by the Worker gateway only; a Node gateway answers 404.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.yaml get /v1/fleet/machine
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  contact:
    email: hello@outerlayer.ai
    url: https://www.outerlayer.ai
  description: >-
    The OuterLayer Gateway API lets you ingest coding-agent sessions and record
    evidence of work programmatically.


    Most teams reach it through the `outerlayer` CLI, which calls it for them.

    Call it directly to build your own integration or to automate what the
    dashboard does.


    Versioning: every endpoint is prefixed with `/v1/`. Breaking changes ship
    under a new version prefix (`/v2/`, etc.) with a 90-day-minimum deprecation
    window; anything additive lands on the current prefix.


    Vocabulary: the dashboard calls this API's `app` a **factory** — the unit
    that owns a set of repositories, the agent sessions worked on them, and the
    evidence they produce. They are the same entity. The API keeps `app` in its
    paths, headers, and field names because those are a published contract; only
    the product surface was renamed.
  title: OuterLayer Gateway API
  version: '1.0'
servers:
  - description: Production (OuterLayer Cloud)
    url: https://api.outerlayer.ai
  - description: Local dev server (self-hosted gateway)
    url: http://localhost:9418
security:
  - AppId: []
    BearerAuth: []
tags:
  - description: >-
      What a CLI login token can read about its owner without naming a factory,
      such as the factories they can use.
    name: Account
  - description: >-
      The route a fleet machine asks for its next managed build on. A fleet
      machine is a machine OuterLayer operates.
    name: Fleet
  - description: >-
      The CLI version a gateway names to its runners, set with the gateway's
      runner version key.
    name: Runner version
  - description: >-
      Coding-agent session ingest (outerlayer sync) and content-addressed
      session images.
    name: Agents
  - description: >-
      Evidence artifacts (screenshots, recordings, reports, logs) emitted as
      proof of a change and anchored to pull requests.
    name: Artifacts
  - description: >-
      Pass/fail outcomes of checks run in your own CI or compute, anchored to
      pull requests with the run URL as proof.
    name: Emitted Results
  - description: >-
      The acceptance criteria of a work item, recorded as one list. The Criteria
      tab, its count and the item status read that list.
    name: Criteria
  - description: >-
      What any agent found wrong about a change under review or about a rule it
      ran on, recorded on a work item.
    name: Findings
  - description: >-
      Find, file and edit the issue a spec lives in, through OuterLayer, with no
      tracker credential on the caller's side.
    name: Specs
  - description: >-
      Add or remove a source's statement that it is working on an issue or pull
      request, and read what is currently live.
    name: Work Items
  - description: >-
      What the factory's GitHub App installation lets builds do on each
      connected repository, and whether each default branch requires a pull
      request.
    name: Repositories
  - description: >-
      The runs of a schedule automation: a runner claims a run, asks for its
      read token and ends it, and the run's agent reports each issue it found or
      that it found nothing.
    name: Schedule runs
  - description: >-
      A runner host's heartbeat — its CLI version, slots and last request for
      work — and the factory's list of hosts with a derived status.
    name: Hosts
  - description: Query server feature availability.
    name: Capabilities
  - description: Per-model LLM pricing data. Public, unauthenticated.
    name: Pricing
  - description: >-
      Create, list, and revoke factory API keys. Plaintext returned exactly once
      at creation.
    name: API Keys
  - description: >-
      Factory CRUD — a factory is owned by an organization and is the unit every
      other resource hangs off. Lets a headless agent provision one without the
      dashboard.
    name: Apps
  - description: >-
      Agent-coding session list and full transcript reads, with actor-privacy
      controls for machine keys.
    name: Sessions
  - description: >-
      Per-model token spend and fleet-wide agent behavior tiles, including
      two-window comparisons.
    name: Metrics
  - description: Synced-commit history of the app's `.outerlayer/` context tree.
    name: Context
  - description: >-
      Session→PR attribution: which agent sessions produced which pull requests,
      and what each attributed PR cost.
    name: PRs
  - description: Service health checks.
    name: Health
  - description: >-
      Org member and role administration, authenticated with an org-scoped
      management API key (`olk_…`) minted in the dashboard's settings.
    name: Org Management
  - description: OAuth 2.1 discovery metadata for MCP connector clients.
    name: OAuth
paths:
  /v1/fleet/machine:
    get:
      tags:
        - Fleet
      summary: Test a fleet machine key
      description: >-
        The route a fleet runner tests its fleet machine key on. It answers the
        machine's name and its state, and changes nothing: it stores no report,
        hands out no build and binds no host key. It refuses a request with the
        codes of the fleet route. The request is signed by the machine's host
        key. While the machine has not bound a host key, the request names it in
        the `hostKey` query parameter. Served by the Worker gateway only; a Node
        gateway answers 404.
      operationId: fleet-machine
      parameters:
        - description: >-
            The public half of the machine's host key. Required while the
            machine has not bound a host key; ignored after.
          in: query
          name: hostKey
          required: false
          schema:
            description: >-
              The public half of the machine's host key. Required while the
              machine has not bound a host key; ignored after.
            pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{43}$
            type: string
        - description: >-
            HTTP Message Signature (RFC 9421) made with the runner key's host
            key: `runner=:<base64>:`.
          in: header
          name: Signature
          required: false
          schema:
            description: >-
              HTTP Message Signature (RFC 9421) made with the runner key's host
              key: `runner=:<base64>:`.
            type: string
        - description: >-
            The signature's covered components and parameters:
            `runner=("@method" "@path" "@query" "content-digest");created=<unix
            seconds>;nonce="<random>";keyid="<host key
            fingerprint>";alg="ed25519"`.
          in: header
          name: Signature-Input
          required: false
          schema:
            description: >-
              The signature's covered components and parameters:
              `runner=("@method" "@path" "@query"
              "content-digest");created=<unix
              seconds>;nonce="<random>";keyid="<host key
              fingerprint>";alg="ed25519"`.
            type: string
        - description: >-
            RFC 9530 digest of the request body, always sent, including for a
            request with none: `sha-256=:<base64>:`.
          in: header
          name: Content-Digest
          required: false
          schema:
            description: >-
              RFC 9530 digest of the request body, always sent, including for a
              request with none: `sha-256=:<base64>:`.
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  data:
                    properties:
                      name:
                        description: The fleet machine's name.
                        type: string
                      state:
                        description: >-
                          `unbound` while the machine has not bound a host key,
                          else `ready`.
                        enum:
                          - unbound
                          - ready
                        type: string
                    required:
                      - name
                      - state
                    type: object
                required:
                  - data
                type: object
          description: The machine's name and state.
        '400':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  error:
                    properties:
                      code:
                        type: string
                      message:
                        type: string
                    required:
                      - code
                      - message
                    type: object
                required:
                  - error
                type: object
          description: Invalid request parameters (validation failed).
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  error:
                    properties:
                      code:
                        type: string
                      message:
                        type: string
                    required:
                      - code
                      - message
                    type: object
                required:
                  - error
                type: object
          description: >-
            Missing or invalid API key, or a runner key's signature was refused:
            `runner_key_signature_required` (the request carries no signature),
            `runner_key_signature_invalid` (it does not verify against the host
            key the key is bound to, or the body does not match its digest),
            `runner_key_signature_stale` (`created` is more than five minutes
            from the gateway's clock) or `runner_key_signature_replayed` (the
            nonce was accepted in the last five minutes).
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  error:
                    properties:
                      code:
                        type: string
                      message:
                        type: string
                    required:
                      - code
                      - message
                    type: object
                required:
                  - error
                type: object
          description: >-
            The request comes from an address the machine does not allow
            (`machine_source_refused`), or the machine was revoked
            (`machine_revoked`).
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  error:
                    properties:
                      code:
                        type: string
                      message:
                        type: string
                    required:
                      - code
                      - message
                    type: object
                required:
                  - error
                type: object
          description: This gateway does not serve fleet machines.
      security:
        - FleetMachineKey: []
components:
  securitySchemes:
    AppId:
      description: Factory id the request is scoped to.
      in: header
      name: X-Outerlayer-App-Id
      type: apiKey
    BearerAuth:
      description: API key (sk_outerlayer_*)
      scheme: bearer
      type: http
    FleetMachineKey:
      description: >-
        Fleet machine key (olfm_*), made by a platform admin. Belongs to a
        machine OuterLayer operates, not to a factory.
      scheme: bearer
      type: http

````

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