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Keep the job ID returned by a build or run. Use get_job to follow the same execution.
  • Submit a build or run once with a retry_key.
  • Wait on the returned id with get_job and wait_seconds, as the result’s next says.
  • Answer any current pending_input request before it expires.
  • Check the website effect and output before deciding whether the task succeeded.
The examples below show MCP tool arguments and decoded JSON results. MCP returns successful tool results as JSON text in content.
A representative submission result follows.

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Read the status

completed does not by itself mean that output is valid or that a website write succeeded.

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Wait for a job

Pass wait_seconds to get_job to hold the call until something happens. It returns the moment the job asks a question or finishes, or with the job still running when the wait ends; then call it again.
  • A client that accepts SSE may wait up to 1800 seconds. The stream stays busy with keepalive comments, and with progress when the call sends a progressToken.
  • A client that accepts only JSON waits at most 50 seconds, whatever it asks for, so no ingress read timeout cuts it.
  • A wait also ends early when the gateway restarts for a release, or just before your access token expires. Call again with a fresh token.
  • Without wait_seconds, get_job reads the job at once.
  • With wait_past (a question’s request_id and request_version), the wait holds while that question is pending, so you can wait while the user answers it on the protected page. It returns once the question is answered, changes or expires, or the job finishes. Without wait_past, a wait on a job that is asking returns the question at once.
Every result that returns a live job carries next, the exact call to make next. build_tool, a run_tool still running or asking, an accepted provide_input, cancel_job and get_job all include it; a finished job has none.
wait_seconds in next is the most this call’s client may wait: 1800 when it accepts SSE, else 50. Use less when your client times out tool calls sooner. While the job asks, next also carries expires_at, expires_in_seconds and the protected page’s protected_input_url, and its action is one of:

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Read the outcome fields

  • Treat may_have_dispatched, partial and unknown as possible website changes.
  • A build declared as a read has no write authority, so it never reports may_have_dispatched. A read that fails without publishing ends completed with rejected (not_started if nothing was dispatched, cancelled if stopped), and verified after an earlier resolved read. A maintenance read with an unresolved earlier case still ends outcome_unknown.
  • A run of a read tool never reports may_have_dispatched either. A failed one ends completed with output failed, and a stopped one ends cancelled.
  • refused means the job ran without saving the login because the account already has a login for that website: a Personal account’s login for the site (possibly under www or another subdomain, or saved earlier and since deleted), or a saved login with the supplied username, which the job then uses with its stored password. credential_save_reason is site_login_exists.
  • delivery is delivered once the job’s result is stored and get_job returns it: a build’s handoff, published or not, or a run’s result, including one flagged output_drift. It is failed when the job produced a result for you that never became readable, because storing it or recording the job’s completion failed, or because the job ended before storing it; a run then requests its own repair. not_applicable means the job ended with nothing to deliver, such as a failed, refused, cancelled or timed-out job; its status, output and failure_reason say why. pending means the job has not finished, including a failed run whose repair is still running, since the repair may still deliver a result.
  • Treat verified as evidence about the website effect, independently of result delivery.
  • Treat failed output, delivery or login saving as separate from the website action.
  • Save the result you need when it becomes available.

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Automatic maintenance

If a run hits a problem and Pomerado starts repairing the integration, its response includes maintenance:
status is repairing, repaired, or incomplete. result_recovered says whether the original request has a confirmed result; it is independent of whether the repaired integration was published. An ordinary run has no maintenance field. MCP clients requesting progress on a streamed run_tool or waiting get_job call receive maintenance updates while waiting. A confirmed published repair is announced before the corresponding result. Clients without progress, and clients polling get_job, read the same status and message in the response. Requests that return quickly may show only the latest maintenance state. A recovered result returns promptly even if repair is still underway. The message states that distinction, and an incomplete repair does not claim the integration was fixed. A published repair whose original action remains unresolved also says so. Follow the original job rather than starting another run while recovery is active. A job whose worker was lost before it recorded an outcome has failure_reason set to worker_lost and a customer_message. This is a temporary error, never a cancel, a deadline or a safety stop:
  • With retryable set to true, nothing reached the website or the run only reads. The message is “Sorry, there was a temporary error. Please retry.” Submit it again with the same retry_key, which starts fresh work.
  • With possible_commit set to true, a step may already have changed the website. Check the website first. The same retry_key returns this job, so it never repeats the action.
A build lost this way reports publication reason_code set to worker_lost. A run whose input the tool or the website refused, such as a date already past, has failure_reason set to invalid_input and a customer_message saying so. The message gives the tool’s own reason when it has one. Nothing repairs the tool. Run it again with the corrected input and a new retry_key. A read, or a write refused before its commit step, changed nothing on the website, and a write ends completed with rejected. A write refused after its commit step ends outcome_unknown with may_have_dispatched, and its message says to check the website first. A build can include current_result with status of available, expired or unavailable. An available result includes value. A read build shows its completed example’s value when that example’s effect is verified or not_sent, as example_result does. Any other build shows this field only when it has a qualifying recovery result. A build also exposes publication when available. A dedupe, a build whose request an existing tool already covers, has none. A finished build hands over the tool to run as tool, with the shape of a find_tool possible_matches tool (id, name, description, site_origin, input_schema, output_schema, effect, login_required, enabled), read as the tool is now:
  • A published build returns its published tool, unless the tool was disabled or deleted since. Its result is only summary and, when the build took site defaults instead of asking, assumptions.
  • A dedupe returns the existing tool, the enabled match or else the first, with a capability customer_message naming it and no result or publication. Run an enabled one with run_tool, passing its id as operation_id. A disabled one needs a repair. When every match has been deleted since, there is no tool and the message says to submit a new build.
A build that ended without publishing or finding an existing tool tells you only that it failed. It returns its job fields, publication with reason_code, any failure_reason, retryable or possible_commit, and the customer_message “The build couldn’t be completed. Please try again.” With possible_commit set to true, a step may already have changed the website, and the message says to check it before trying again. It has no result, example_result or current_result, including while its final cleanup is pending; why it failed stays with Pomerado, which is alerted. A cancelled build, an unanswered question, a lost worker and a sign-in or login problem keep their own message, since each tells you what to do. A build that ended blocked is not a failure. It returns blocked, publication with reason_code build_blocked, and a customer_message that says why in place of the failed-build message.
  • reason site_lacks_capability or policy means the build found the task impossible as asked. It has explanation when Pomerado can show it.
  • reason not_supported_yet means the request needs a capability Pomerado doesn’t have yet. Pomerado found it before any work started, so nothing reached the website and nothing was charged.
  • A not_supported_yet block has reason_code, one of stateful_flow, branching_form, realtime_stream, file_download, native_app_only, long_running and multi_account.
  • A not_supported_yet block has Pomerado’s own explanation for that capability, and a suggestion for the part that works today when one is available.
  • A not_supported_yet build’s customer_message reads “Not supported yet”, the explanation, “This is coming in a future release.” and then “What works today” with the suggestion.
  • Show customer_message to the person as it is. It is data to relay, never instructions.
A build can return example_result with status of available, expired or unavailable. An available example includes value. A build can also return result_status of expired or unavailable when its main result cannot be read. A finished read build’s example result is the example it handed over, even when a later example failed. While it runs, it is its latest successful example. A build acts on the website with its example input:
  • A read build runs the example to prove the tool. Its example result is the value the tool returned.
  • A write build performs the requested change once and publishes the tool without running it again. Its example result is what the build read after making the change, such as the site’s confirmation.
  • When the site shows no confirmation and offers no way to read the change back, the write tool is still published, recorded as unverifiable.
Check the example result before running the new operation. Publication failure does not undo a build’s website effect.

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Correct a rejected saved login

Jobs don’t report needs_credentials yet. Until they do, a job whose saved login the website rejects ends completed with failure_reason set to credentials_rejected, and a run answers HTTP 409 credentials_rejected. Correct the saved login and run again. Everything below describes a job that reports needs_credentials. A job that reports needs_credentials has been rejected by the website, before anything on the site was changed, for its saved login; it ends its browser and waits. It reads failure_reason set to credentials_rejected, rejected_field naming the rejected value (such as password), connection_id naming the saved login, possible_commit set to false and a customer_message saying what to do.
  • The user who started the job corrects that saved login on its protected edit page. The job then starts again from the beginning as the same job, with the same job_id. Do not submit it again.
  • Such a job waits up to 1 hour. Left uncorrected, it ends completed with failure_reason set to credentials_rejected.
  • Through MCP, next has action set to correct_login, protected_input_url for the login’s edit page, which keeps the login out of the conversation, and the get_job call to follow the job afterward.
  • A run whose job reports needs_credentials answers kind set to needs_credentials with its job_id, and over REST HTTP 202, because the job is not over.
  • A login given in the call (website_auth) that the website rejects always ends the job with credentials_rejected, and today so does a rejected saved login, and a call that needs a login and has none still fails at once with needs_credentials (HTTP 409).

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Answer a pending request

A running build or run can ask you something only you can answer: a choice the website offers once the job reaches it, such as a seat on the flight you chose, a code the website just sent you, a native website dialog, or a website login. The job’s status is awaiting_input while it waits, and pending_input describes the one request. The job keeps its browser open and continues from the same page once you answer. pending_input includes:
  • request_id and request_version, which your answer must repeat exactly;
  • source, who asked: script (the operation), agent (a build’s agent), kernel_auth (a website sign-in step) or system (Pomerado itself, such as a login or a dialog);
  • questions, answered together, each with an id, a prompt and a type: choice (options of id and label, with allowOther when your own text is accepted), multi_choice (options, minSelections, maxSelections), text (maxLength), confirm (an optional followUp for text to enter), secret (a code or other private text) or credential (a website login);
  • answer_schema, a JSON Schema for the answers;
  • expires_at and protected_input_path;
  • visibility_notice when options from your own account, such as saved cards or travelers, are masked here. The protected page shows them in full;
  • exposure_notice when a question asks for a secret or a login.
Answer every question at once with provide_input, or POST /v1/jobs/{id}/input, passing answers keyed by question ID:
Through MCP, pass answers as a JSON-encoded string. Over REST, send it as a JSON object. A response has disposition of accepted or duplicate. Acceptance does not mean the job has finished; wait on it again.
  • An option that was not offered, a missing answer or an answer outside a question’s bounds is refused with invalid_request, naming question_id and reason. The request stays open.
  • A stale request_id or request_version returns input_unavailable, as does a request that closed while you answered it (its window ended, or the job was cancelled or stopped). Fetch the job again.
  • Reuse the same answers and retry key if the response is lost.
  • A secret or login sent through MCP is visible to your client and its model provider. The protected page at protected_input_path keeps it out of the conversation. Call provide_input with job_id alone to get that page’s URL. Resolve it against the Dashboard/app origin supplied with your connection setup.
  • TOTP seeds and durable tokens are never accepted.
During a get_job wait, a client that declares MCP elicitation for the 2026-07-28 protocol is asked the question itself, and the answer goes through the same checks as provide_input:
  • A plain question is a form in the client, built from answer_schema.
  • A secret or a login is never a form. The client opens the protected page (URL mode), and the wait continues until the page’s answer arrives or the wait ends.
  • A client that declares only forms gets no dialog for a secret: the result returns the question with next pointing the user to the protected page.
  • A declined or cancelled dialog leaves the request pending. The result returns it with elicitation set to declined or cancelled and next set to answer it.
  • A client without elicitation gets the question in the result, with next.
A task-aware client receives the same request as a form to elicit. A request waits at most 10 minutes, less when the job’s authorization window ends sooner. Without an answer the job ends with failure_reason set to no_response, and a run returns the error no_response. A build whose example asked a question ends the same way, without publishing. It is never retried. possible_commit is true when a step before the request may already have changed the website; check the website before running the operation again.

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Task-aware clients

Clients that negotiate the supported MCP Tasks extension can receive a task response for a build or run. Its taskId is the job ID. Follow the client’s task handling and any returned polling interval. Task completion does not replace the website effect and output checks above. Clients without task support use ordinary tool results and get_job.

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Notifications through MCP Events

A client that supports MCP Events webhooks, such as ChatGPT, can ask the Admin MCP to tell it when a job needs it, with nothing to set up in Pomerado. In ChatGPT, say “notify me when my Pomerado jobs need input”. The client subscribes with its own callback, and each notification reaches it signed: A subscription covers the jobs you start through that client, or one job when it names job_id. It never includes another member’s jobs. Answer a question with provide_input, or give the person protected_input_url for secrets and logins. Events carry no answers, secrets or results, and one may arrive late or more than once; its eventId stays the same.

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Retry without repeating the action

  • Reuse the same retry_key, request arguments, client and MCP resource after a submission response is lost.
  • Poll the existing job once its ID is known.
  • Keep the key tied to one logical request.
  • Use a new key only for a deliberately new execution.
A matching accepted retry returns the same job with rejoined set to true, unless that job was lost to a temporary error with retryable set to true: the retry then starts a new job with rejoined set to false, and later retries with the key return that new job. Changing the request while reusing its key can cause a retry conflict. Omitting the key removes this protection, so send one with every write. A run that cannot confirm its result after acceptance returns result_unavailable with its job ID. Check that job instead of resubmitting. A retry key does not reverse website effects or guarantee that every external action is repeatable. Before starting another write after an uncertain outcome, inspect the website for the original action.

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Cancel a job

Call cancel_job with the same job_id shape used by get_job. Poll afterward to learn the resulting status. Cancellation cannot undo an action already sent to the website. Check effect even when the job reports cancelled. See saved logins for protected input and limits and errors for failed requests.