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# Describe the host process

> Returns the host's version, uptime, mode and store path. This is the handshake operation clients call first, and it is gated like every other: a request without a valid token answers 401 NRY-0011, unless it is the socket's own OS user on a laptop. The socket's EXISTENCE is what tells a client a host is there; an exempt handshake would be a second trust regime. There is no shutdown operation — host lifecycle belongs to the daemon manager, outside this contract.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /pt/openapi/v3-current/narya.yaml get /v1/host
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Narya Host API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    The contract between the Narya host and every client. On your own machine,
    one long-lived host serves this API over a Unix socket in your Narya home.
    The terminal client and the one-shot command that Lerian ships drive this
    API, and a client you write drives the same one.


    Requests authenticate with a bearer token issued by the identity provider
    the host is configured with. On your own machine, the host also accepts a
    request with no token from your own operating system user. Once signed-in
    work has claimed the home for an organization, it does so only while this
    machine is signed in to that organization. Such a request gets 401 with
    NRY-0011 on work that reaches your organization beyond the machine. An
    operation that declares another security scheme also accepts that
    credential. Any other request without a valid credential gets 401 with
    NRY-0011. A caller whose role lacks the permission an operation needs gets
    403 with NRY-0028.


    Submitting a message returns 202 with a turn id. Everything the turn
    produces streams over GET /v1/events as server-sent events with a typed
    envelope, and a stream resumes from a Last-Event-ID header.


    One error envelope: code, title and message. Codes are NRY- followed by four
    digits. Cursors are opaque.
servers: []
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: host
    description: The host process itself — version, uptime, mode, store.
  - name: sessions
    description: Durable conversation containers. Archive, never destroy.
  - name: messages
    description: Submitting work into a session and interrupting it.
  - name: events
    description: The server-sent event stream every client consumes.
  - name: lanes
    description: Parallel tracks inside a session — main, subagent, side.
  - name: agents
    description: Named recipes — instructions, tools, model, policy. Read-only in v1.
  - name: ladder
    description: >-
      What a person can type: the skills and command files in force for one
      repository, and expanding one into text. Five origins merged, nearest
      winning a name, the repository's own rungs gated on trust.
  - name: permissions
    description: Pending permission asks, decisions, and the decision audit.
  - name: intercom
    description: Sessions on one machine finding and messaging each other.
  - name: packages
    description: The one thing a user installs — resources, Go code, or both.
  - name: extensions
    description: >-
      Host-side extensions and the operations each exposes over the wire. This
      is the generic lane a host extension uses to serve its own client half (a
      TUI component, a web panel) or any API-only consumer, without adding
      routes to this contract.
  - name: workflows
    description: Deterministic multi-agent orchestration runs.
  - name: providers
    description: Model suppliers, their auth state, and the model catalogue.
  - name: monitors
    description: >-
      Long-running watchers a session keeps beside its conversation — a test
      runner in watch mode, a build, a log being followed. Started by the model
      or by the person, always listed, always killable.
  - name: records
    description: The queryable local record of everything that happened.
  - name: environments
    description: >-
      Where a session's code lives and its commands run — this machine, or a
      container narya operates. A session that names none runs here.
  - name: schedules
    description: >-
      Work the host's own clock starts with nobody present — a repository, a
      prompt, a rule and what one fire may spend. Cancel, never destroy.
  - name: sharing
    description: >-
      Publishing a session from a developer's own home to the organisation's,
      and what is held back before a byte leaves the machine.
  - name: refinements
    description: >-
      What this owner has taught narya and allowed it to keep — distilled facts,
      and the skills, agents and commands the model wrote for itself. Propose,
      read, consent, roll back. Nothing here fires until a person answers.
  - name: platform
    description: >-
      Calls Lerian's control plane made to a home it hosts, as this home
      recorded them.
paths:
  /v1/host:
    get:
      tags:
        - host
      summary: Describe the host process
      description: >-
        Returns the host's version, uptime, mode and store path. This is the
        handshake operation clients call first, and it is gated like every
        other: a request without a valid token answers 401 NRY-0011, unless it
        is the socket's own OS user on a laptop. The socket's EXISTENCE is what
        tells a client a host is there; an exempt handshake would be a second
        trust regime. There is no shutdown operation — host lifecycle belongs to
        the daemon manager, outside this contract.
      operationId: getHost
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Host metadata.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Host'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
components:
  schemas:
    Host:
      type: object
      description: The host process's identity and operating mode.
      required:
        - version
        - uptimeSeconds
        - mode
        - storePath
      properties:
        version:
          type: string
          description: The host binary's version.
        uptimeSeconds:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
          description: Seconds since the host started.
        mode:
          type: string
          enum:
            - local
          description: How the host serves this API. This host answers `local`.
        storePath:
          type: string
          description: Absolute path of the local store.
        pid:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          description: >-
            The serving process's own id, so a client can cross-check the
            machine's host registration file against the host that actually
            answers. That file is a claim written by a process which may be long
            dead, and its pid is the part that rots: the operating system hands
            a dead host's number to an unrelated live program, and a client
            trusting the file alone would report a host as serving when nothing
            is. Optional because a host older than this field cannot answer it;
            absent means the cross-check cannot be made, which is not the same
            as a mismatch.
        signIns:
          type: array
          description: >-
            Sign-ins the host is waiting on a PERSON to complete right now — an
            OAuth-protected tool server whose authorization page nobody has
            visited yet. Present on this operation, rather than only on the
            per-server tool-server readout, because this is the cheap handshake
            every client already polls: the URL has to reach whoever is at a
            terminal within seconds of the host asking for it, and a client
            cannot be asked to ping every tool server to discover that somebody
            is being waited on. Empty or absent means nobody is waiting.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SignInWaiting'
        diagnostics:
          type: array
          description: >-
            What went wrong while this host loaded, in the order it was
            discovered: a config key nothing reads, an [extensions] tie-break
            naming a slot no installed package claims, a package whose manifest
            could not be read and whose hooks were therefore skipped. Every
            entry is non-fatal BY CONSTRUCTION — anything fatal fails
            composition and the process never starts, so there is no severity to
            carry and no client decision to make about one.

            Host-scoped, not session-scoped: these are facts about the process,
            settled once before it served anything and unchanged for its whole
            life, which is why they ride the handshake rather than a session's
            own response. A client shows them once per connection, because the
            host that a shell spawns has its stderr on /dev/null and every
            interactive client covers the terminal the operator would otherwise
            read them on. Empty or absent means the host loaded cleanly.

            Bounded on the host side: at most 64 lines of at most 512 runes each
            are retained, with overflow announced in the final line, so a loader
            gone wrong cannot bloat every handshake. The host's own stderr
            always carries the full text.
          maxItems: 64
          items:
            type: string
            maxLength: 512
      examples:
        - version: 1.0.0
          uptimeSeconds: 86400
          mode: local
          storePath: /Users/dev/.config/narya/narya.db
    SignInWaiting:
      type: object
      description: >-
        One tool server sign-in waiting on a person: the page to open, when the
        host started waiting, and when it stops. The wait is on a HUMAN
        timescale and is deliberately not the connection attempt's own ceiling —
        a handshake bound measured in seconds is right for a socket and absurd
        for somebody opening a browser and passing MFA.
      required:
        - server
        - url
        - since
        - expiresAt
      properties:
        server:
          type: string
          description: >-
            The tool server this sign-in belongs to. A repository's own server
            is named `<name> in <repository>`, since each repository signs in on
            its own.
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: >-
            The authorization page a person must open. The host is listening on
            the loopback redirect that page comes back to, so completing it in
            any browser on this machine connects the server — no restart, and no
            further command.
        since:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: When the host started waiting for this sign-in.
        expiresAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: >-
            When this sign-in window closes. After it, the server goes down with
            "nobody completed the sign-in" as its reason and is asked again at
            most once per window.
      examples:
        - server: github
          url: https://github.test/login/oauth/authorize?client_id=narya&state=b7c1
          since: '2026-08-14T09:12:00.000Z'
          expiresAt: '2026-08-14T09:17:00.000Z'
    Error:
      type: object
      description: >-
        The single error envelope every operation returns. Codes are NRY-
        followed by four digits and are catalogued in the top-level
        x-error-catalog extension.
      required:
        - code
        - title
        - message
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          pattern: ^NRY-[0-9]{4}$
          description: Machine-readable error code from the NRY catalogue.
        title:
          type: string
          maxLength: 256
          description: Short human-readable summary of the error class.
        message:
          type: string
          maxLength: 4096
          description: Specific, actionable description of what went wrong.
        fields:
          type: object
          description: Per-field validation problems.
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
      examples:
        - code: NRY-0002
          title: Session not found
          message: >-
            No session with id 6b9f6d2e-1c3a-4f5b-9d7e-2a8c4e6f0b1d exists on
            this host.
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: >-
        Authentication required — a request carrying no valid identity token
        (NRY-0011).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    InternalServerError:
      description: The host failed — including a store that refuses writes (NRY-0012).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: >-
        Enforced on every transport, with no exempt operation. A person's
        request must carry a JWT issued by the configured identity provider,
        which the host verifies itself against that issuer's key set: signature,
        issuer, expiry, and the person and organisation it names. Requests
        without a valid one receive 401 NRY-0011 — except a request with no
        token on a laptop's socket from the OS user the kernel names as the
        host's own, which is that machine's user.

````

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