The API

Anything you can click in control, a key can do from a terminal or from a coding agent: create workers, add clients, map channels, schedule routines, connect tools, read the activity feed. Every call is scoped to the company the key belongs to, and there is no parameter that widens it.

Access and keys

Keys belong to the company, not to a person. Anyone holding one acts as the whole company, and every write it makes is recorded under the key's own id. Only an admin can mint or revoke a key, in control under Settings, on the API keys tab. A key is shown once. Give it an expiry if the job it does has an end; revoking takes effect from the next request.

A worker can hold a key too. Your AI Admin does, placed at its own tier and injected by the gateway, which is what lets it set up your company from Slack. See Access.

Calling a worker from the web

A webhook is a URL an outside system can POST to. Each one belongs to a worker and names a Slack channel or a person; a delivery starts a turn, and the answer lands there. Creating one returns a whsec_ secret, shown once and stored hashed; send it as a Bearer token on every delivery. Lose it and you rotate. Deliveries are accepted with a 202 and a delivery id, and the turn runs afterwards. See Web.

The reference

The reference is served by the API, to the same key the API takes, so a coding agent can fetch how to call it with the header it already has. It comes back as Markdown by default, JSON when asked for, and HTML in a browser, all from one source.

export ERGOLY_API_KEY="<your key>"

curl -sS "https://control.ergoly.ai/api/v1/organization" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ERGOLY_API_KEY"

The shape of every answer

• A single resource answers {"data": …}. A list answers {"data": […], "page": …}, and page is there even when there is nothing more.
• Paging is by cursor: pass limit and the previous page's nextCursor. A page stays stable while rows are written underneath it.
• An id that belongs to another company answers 404, the same 404 an id that never existed gets.
• A write that can create real infrastructure takes an Idempotency-Key. A retry is answered from the first attempt; the same key with a different body is a conflict.
• Every refusal carries a machine-stable code. Branch on it, never on the message. Without a valid key every refusal reads alike, on purpose.

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