> ## 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. # Wait for new work in the runner's factory > A runner holds this request open. Without `cursor`, or with a `cursor` that differs from the factory's current one, the answer comes at once. Otherwise the gateway holds the request for up to 50 seconds and answers as soon as the cursor changes. The cursor moves when a work item gets an attestation (a build request is one) or a comment (a fail is one), or when a claim is asked to stop or is released. `changed: true` means the runner should look for work now; `changed: false` means nothing changed and the runner should call again with the same `cursor`. The answer carries no work. The runner finds and claims work through the routes it already uses. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.yaml get /v1/hosts/wait 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/hosts/wait: get: tags: - Hosts summary: Wait for new work in the runner's factory description: >- A runner holds this request open. Without `cursor`, or with a `cursor` that differs from the factory's current one, the answer comes at once. Otherwise the gateway holds the request for up to 50 seconds and answers as soon as the cursor changes. The cursor moves when a work item gets an attestation (a build request is one) or a comment (a fail is one), or when a claim is asked to stop or is released. `changed: true` means the runner should look for work now; `changed: false` means nothing changed and the runner should call again with the same `cursor`. The answer carries no work. The runner finds and claims work through the routes it already uses. operationId: wait-for-host-work parameters: - description: The cursor the last answer carried. Leave it out on the first call. in: query name: cursor required: false schema: description: >- The cursor the last answer carried. Leave it out on the first call. pattern: ^[0-9]{1,19}$ type: string - description: >- HTTP Message Signature (RFC 9421) made with the runner key's host key: `runner=::`. in: header name: Signature required: false schema: description: >- HTTP Message Signature (RFC 9421) made with the runner key's host key: `runner=::`. type: string - description: >- The signature's covered components and parameters: `runner=("@method" "@path" "@query" "content-digest");created=;nonce="";keyid="";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=;nonce="";keyid="";alg="ed25519"`. type: string - description: >- RFC 9530 digest of the request body, always sent, including for a request with none: `sha-256=::`. 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=::`. type: string responses: '200': content: application/json: schema: properties: data: properties: changed: type: boolean cursor: type: string required: - changed - cursor type: object required: - data type: object description: >- The factory's current cursor, and whether it differs from the one sent. '400': content: application/json: schema: properties: error: properties: code: type: string message: type: string required: - code - message type: object required: - error type: object description: A `cursor` that is not a decimal number. '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 caller lacks hosts.ingest. 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 ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.