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episodes.detach

Close this connection's episode

What it is

Close an execution episode deliberately: the work is done, not merely interrupted, and the repository's record says so. Without 'external_id' it is whichever episode the calling connection holds, which needs an MCP session: over plain HTTP there is no connection, so the call is refused and the episode must be named. A client that simply goes away does not need this — its episode detaches and the reaper closes it as interrupted — and the difference between those two records is the one thing about an ended episode that changes what somebody does next.

Descriptor

Canonical id
episodes.detach
Module
episodes
Kind
command
Stability
behaviorallyverified
Provenance
declared
Source
apps/majordomus-cli/src/capability/builtin/episodes.rs
Cache
disabled
Benchmark
required
Tags
episodessessioncoordination

Run

command
A command. It changes this process's own memory — not the repository — and is sent as a POST from this page's origin.

The episode to close. Omitted, it is whichever one this connection holds, which is what a client ending its own sitting means.

POST /api/v1/episodes/detach

Projections

InterfaceAsWhere
MCP toolmajordomus_session_detach-
MCP resourcenot exposed-
HTTPPOST /api/v1/episodes/detachSwagger
Command linenot exposed-

Schemas

Input · DetachInput
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "external_id": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The episode to close. Omitted, it is whichever one this connection holds, which is\nwhat a client ending its own sitting means."
    }
  },
  "description": "The input of `episodes.detach`: the episode to close.\n\nEmpty is a valid input, meaning the episode the calling connection holds; over an\ninterface with no connection that input is refused, since there is nothing to take\n\"this one's episode\" from.\n\n```\nuse majordomus_cli::capability::builtin::episodes::DetachInput;\nlet mine: DetachInput = serde_json::from_str(\"{}\").unwrap();\nassert!(mine.external_id.is_none());\nlet named: DetachInput = serde_json::from_str(r#\"{\"external_id\":\"conv-42\"}\"#).unwrap();\nassert_eq!(named.external_id.as_deref(), Some(\"conv-42\"));\nassert_eq!(serde_json::to_string(&mine).unwrap(), \"{}\", \"an omitted id is not written as null\");\n```",
  "title": "DetachInput"
}
Output · Detached
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "episode": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/ConnectionEpisode",
      "description": "The episode as it was closed, its `repository` field carrying what the repository's\nown end event reported."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "episode"
  ],
  "description": "The answer of `episodes.detach`: the episode as it was closed, no longer held by any\nconnection, with what the repository's end event reported.\n\n```\nuse majordomus_cli::capability::builtin::episodes::Detached;\nlet schema = serde_json::to_value(schemars::schema_for!(Detached)).unwrap();\nassert_eq!(schema[\"required\"], serde_json::json!([\"episode\"]));\n```",
  "title": "Detached",
  "$defs": {
    "ConnectionEpisode": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "external_id": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The client's own durable name for this piece of work, and the key everything here is\naddressed by. Never a peer id: see the module documentation."
        },
        "provider": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The provider id this episode is recorded under, as `share/providers.yaml` names one."
        },
        "peer": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "$ref": "#/$defs/PeerId"
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ],
          "description": "The connection holding it, when one does. `None` while detached — which is a state\nan episode is *supposed* to reach and come back from, not a fault."
        },
        "opened_at": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "When it was first opened, RFC 3339, UTC. Unchanged by a re-attach: the episode is\nthe work, and the work did not restart because a socket did."
        },
        "last_activity_seconds_ago": {
          "type": "integer",
          "format": "uint64",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "Seconds since the client last spoke on it, through any connection."
        },
        "attachments": {
          "type": "integer",
          "format": "uint32",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "How many times a connection has taken it over, the first attach included."
        },
        "state": {
          "$ref": "#/$defs/ConnectionEpisodeState",
          "description": "Open, or detached and waiting for its client."
        },
        "repository": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "What the repository's own episode command reported, verbatim — the record it opened,\nor the reason it could not. Never interpreted here, and never empty: a subsystem\nthat silently does nothing is the failure mode this field exists to make visible."
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "external_id",
        "provider",
        "opened_at",
        "last_activity_seconds_ago",
        "attachments",
        "state",
        "repository"
      ],
      "description": "One episode: what the client calls itself, which connection holds it now, and what the\nrepository did about it.\n\n```\nuse majordomus_cli::episodes::{ConnectionEpisode, EpisodeBoard};\nuse majordomus_cli::peers::{PeerBoard, Transport};\nlet peer = PeerBoard::new().attach(Transport::Http);\nlet (episode, _) = EpisodeBoard::new().attach(&peer, \"conv-42\", \"generic\");\nlet episode: ConnectionEpisode = episode;\nassert_eq!((episode.external_id.as_str(), episode.provider.as_str()), (\"conv-42\", \"generic\"));\nassert_eq!(episode.peer.as_ref(), Some(&peer));\n// never empty: a board with no repository behind it says so\nassert!(episode.repository.contains(\"without a driver\"));\n```"
    },
    "PeerId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A peer's identity for the life of the server: `p1`, `p2`, ... in attachment order.\n`p1` is the session that started the server."
    },
    "ConnectionEpisodeState": {
      "oneOf": [
        {
          "type": "string",
          "const": "open",
          "description": "A connection holds it and the client is speaking."
        },
        {
          "type": "string",
          "const": "detached",
          "description": "The connection has gone; the episode is kept for `REATTACH_GRACE` so the client\ncan come back to it. This is the state a crash lands in, and the one a reconnect\nrecovers from."
        }
      ],
      "description": "Where an episode stands: held by a live connection, or waiting for its client to come\nback. There is no closed state, because a closed episode leaves the board; what survives\nit is the repository's own record.\n\n```\nuse majordomus_cli::episodes::{ConnectionEpisodeState, EpisodeBoard};\nuse majordomus_cli::peers::{PeerBoard, Transport};\nlet peer = PeerBoard::new().attach(Transport::Stdio);\nlet board = EpisodeBoard::new();\nassert_eq!(board.attach(&peer, \"w\", \"generic\").0.state, ConnectionEpisodeState::Open);\nassert_eq!(board.detach(&peer)[0].state, ConnectionEpisodeState::Detached);\nassert_eq!(serde_json::to_string(&ConnectionEpisodeState::Detached).unwrap(), \"\\\"detached\\\"\");\n```"
    }
  }
}

Examples

These are the capability's own benchmark cases: the same inputs the benchmark runs and the OpenAPI document shows.

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