> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://cool.computer/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ask the agent about comments > The account's owner only, from the site's page. Hands 1 to 10 open comments, each at the version the owner saw, to the owner's agent as one job: with to operator (the default), done by one operator turn in the site's conversation; with to agent, sent to the owner's local agent session listening on the site (the board's listener), which claims it by pulling it within 2 minutes and keeps it while it renews it at least every 20 minutes (only its comment pull, board, create, reply, resolve and changes to the site's files or releases renew it; pull the job again during long work), else Operator takes it over. Asking changes no comment. A comment an unsettled job already holds is refused with `already_asked`; an asked comment needs the owner's answer first. ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://www.cool.computer/openapi.json post /api/computers/{id}/comments/ask openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Cool Computers API version: 1.0.0 description: >- Create and operate reachable computers. Each computer keeps a stable name.cool.computer address, persistent files, and agent-ready command execution. REST requests use UTC-aligned one-minute limits: 600 requests per account identified by a recognized valid account bearer credential, a separate 600-request budget per computer-scoped credential, or 60 requests per source IP otherwise. Read-only GETs answered from API state spend a separate read budget reported as account-read or computer-read, so status polling cannot exhaust the budget that protects work and mutations. To bound authentication-provider traffic, at most 60 first-seen bearer values are checked per source IP in a minute; recognized valid credentials use their account or computer policy. Successful bearer authentication is reused for at most five seconds; transient provider failures are not cached. Revoking a credential through this API (POST /api/auth/logout or DELETE /api/api-keys/{id}) drops that reuse in every serving process, so the revoked credential is refused from the next request on; only if that announcement fails does another process keep admitting it, for at most five seconds. JSON request bodies must be sent with Content-Type: application/json; any other body answers 415 unsupported_media_type. A request that gives a published site its own VM (POST /api/computers/{id}/vm, POST /api/computers/{id}/service/run, or a publish whose cool.json declares run) answers with a Cool-Notice header saying that the site now runs there and cool.json no longer applies; exec, terminals, the port proxy and exposure never give one and answer 409 needs_vm on a site with no VM. Every error is an application/problem+json object whose type links to https://cool.computer/docs/api-reference/errors; a malformed body names the unknown field, the wrong type, or the byte where the JSON breaks. Non-exempt API responses include the structured RateLimit and RateLimit-Policy fields; request admission 429 responses use code api_request_rate_exceeded and also include Retry-After. Health, OpenAPI, webhooks, callbacks, SSE, and WebSocket endpoints are exempt from the REST request budget. Authenticated SSE connection attempts remain subject to the authentication safeguards and can receive the same typed 429 response. servers: - url: https://api.cool.computer description: Canonical API origin security: [] tags: - name: Authentication description: Obtain and manage bearer credentials. - name: Billing description: Inspect and manage the account's no-card trial or Pro plan. - name: Computers description: Create, inspect, and delete resident computers. - name: Execution description: Run commands on a computer. - name: Files description: Read and change a computer's persistent files. - name: Publishing description: >- Publish files to a computer's URL as immutable releases, with no VM. To show something, publish the files; to run something, give the site its own VM with POST /api/computers/{id}/vm or start a service with POST /api/computers/{id}/service/run, then use exec, terminals and services. - name: Services description: >- Manage processes and select the HTTP port exposed at a computer's stable address. - name: Email description: Read and send mail through a computer's inbox. - name: Comments description: >- Comments people leave on a computer's page, unless its owner switched comments off: the owner, the people it is shared with and, when the computer is public, any signed-in person. A comment is content; the owner's agents (Operator, or any agent with the owner's credential) pull the open comments and answer them, and the owner hands chosen comments as a job with POST /api/computers/{id}/comments/ask to Operator, or to the owner's own coding agent while it listens on the site with POST /api/computers/{id}/comments/watch (one listening session per site; it claims the job by pulling it, and Operator takes the job over when it goes quiet). - name: Network description: Control a computer's public visibility and outbound network policy. - name: Sharing description: Invite people to use a computer without granting owner controls. - name: Domains description: >- Serve a computer at a hostname you control, such as app.example.com, beside its own address. - name: Public description: Unauthenticated discovery endpoints. - name: Secrets description: Inspect secret sets and their audit history; values are never returned. - name: Integrations description: Connect, inspect and revoke outside service accounts. - name: GitHub description: Work with repository workspaces using the connected user account. - name: Messaging description: >- Connect Telegram, Slack or WhatsApp so direct messages, and mentions of the Slack app in a channel, become chat turns. - name: Terminals description: Inspect a computer's terminal sessions. - name: Operator description: Read the operator agent's conversations, turns, and events. - name: Feedback description: >- Tell the Cool Computers team what works and what does not, with or without an account. externalDocs: description: Cool Computers agent registration guide url: https://www.cool.computer/auth.md paths: /api/computers/{id}/comments/ask: post: tags: - Comments summary: Ask the agent about comments description: >- The account's owner only, from the site's page. Hands 1 to 10 open comments, each at the version the owner saw, to the owner's agent as one job: with to operator (the default), done by one operator turn in the site's conversation; with to agent, sent to the owner's local agent session listening on the site (the board's listener), which claims it by pulling it within 2 minutes and keeps it while it renews it at least every 20 minutes (only its comment pull, board, create, reply, resolve and changes to the site's files or releases renew it; pull the job again during long work), else Operator takes it over. Asking changes no comment. A comment an unsettled job already holds is refused with `already_asked`; an asked comment needs the owner's answer first. operationId: askComputerComments parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ComputerID' requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AskCommentsRequest' responses: '201': description: The job. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CommentJob' '400': description: >- Bad Request. `invalid_comment`: ask about 1 to 10 open comments, each once, with the version you saw, and send agent exactly when to is agent. content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized' '403': description: >- Forbidden. `not_your_comment`: only the site's owner can ask the agent. content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem' '404': description: >- Not Found. `comments_off`: comments are off for the computer. `comment_not_found`: a comment was deleted; read the board again. content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem' '409': description: >- Conflict. `comment_changed`: a comment changed since you saw it; read the board again. `already_asked`: the agent is already working on a comment. `agent_not_listening`: to agent, but the agent named is not the one listening on the site (or none is), or the site has a VM; read the board again, or send it to Operator. content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem' '429': headers: RateLimit: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit' RateLimit-Policy: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy' Retry-After: $ref: '#/components/headers/Retry-After' description: >- Too Many Requests. `agent_busy`: the agent already has as many turns waiting as it takes; nothing was queued, so wait for some of its queued work to finish, then ask again. `api_request_rate_exceeded`: the account request limit; wait for Retry-After seconds. content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem' '500': $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError' default: $ref: '#/components/responses/Problem' security: - bearerAuth: [] components: parameters: ComputerID: name: id in: path required: true description: >- The computer's name, such as agent-atlas, or its id (cmp_…). Every caller may use either, the computer's own runtime token included. schema: type: string minLength: 1 example: agent-atlas schemas: AskCommentsRequest: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - comments properties: comments: type: array minItems: 1 maxItems: 10 items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CommentRef' description: >- Open comments, each at the version you saw, that no running job holds. to: type: string enum: - operator - agent default: operator description: >- Who does the job: Operator, or the owner's local agent session the board names as listener. agent: type: string maxLength: 64 description: >- With to agent, and only then: the board's listener.agent, the agent the owner was shown. A different agent listening now, or none, is 409 agent_not_listening. CommentJob: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - id - state - comments - created_at description: >- Comments the owner asked the agent to handle, done by one operator turn and the turns that continue its work. Asking changes no comment; the agent answers each comment as it acts. properties: id: type: string pattern: ^cjob_[0-9a-f]{24}$ state: type: string enum: - queued - working - settled description: >- queued until a turn of its work starts, working until all of its work (the turn and the turns that continue it) ended, then settled. outcome: type: string enum: - done - partial - stopped - cancelled description: >- Present once settled: done when the agent answered every comment, partial when some, stopped when none, cancelled when someone stopped one of its turns. comments: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CommentRef' description: The comments asked about, at the versions asked. agent: type: string maxLength: 64 description: >- Present for a job sent to the owner's local agent session: the label its watch gave. Kept after Operator took the job over. took_over: type: boolean description: >- Present and true when the local agent session went quiet and Operator took the job over. created_at: type: string format: date-time Problem: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - type - title - status - code - detail properties: type: type: string format: uri description: >- https://cool.computer/docs/api-reference/errors, the page that explains every code. title: type: string status: type: integer minimum: 400 maximum: 599 code: type: string pattern: ^[a-z0-9_]+$ detail: type: string resolution: type: string context: type: object additionalProperties: true suggestions: type: array items: type: string maxItems: 3 description: >- Values to send instead. With name_taken: up to three free names made from the requested one, the first with a random suffix; each was free when the answer was made. CommentRef: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - id - version properties: id: type: string minLength: 1 version: type: integer minimum: 1 responses: Unauthorized: headers: RateLimit: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit' RateLimit-Policy: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy' description: Unauthorized. content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem' InternalServerError: headers: RateLimit: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit' RateLimit-Policy: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy' description: Internal Server Error. content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem' Problem: headers: RateLimit: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit' RateLimit-Policy: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy' description: >- A machine-readable API error with a stable code and recovery instruction. content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem' headers: RateLimit: description: >- The applied policy name, requests remaining after this request, and whole seconds until the current UTC-aligned window resets. schema: type: string pattern: >- ^"(account|account-read|computer|computer-read|source|comment-board|comment-live)";r=[0-9]+;t=([1-9]|[1-5][0-9]|60)$ examples: - '"account";r=599;t=42' - '"computer-read";r=598;t=42' RateLimit-Policy: description: >- The selected policy name, quota, and window in seconds. Valid account credentials use account or account-read with q=600, computer credentials use computer or computer-read with q=600, unauthenticated or unrecognized requests use source with q=60 for their source IP, a browser session's read of a comment board uses comment-board with q=300 for its source IP, and its handshake of a comment live channel uses comment-live with q=60 for its source IP. schema: type: string pattern: >- ^("(account|account-read|computer|computer-read)";q=600|"source";q=60|"comment-board";q=300|"comment-live";q=60);w=60$ examples: - '"account";q=600;w=60' - '"computer-read";q=600;w=60' Retry-After: description: >- Whole seconds to wait after an api_request_rate_exceeded, comment_rate_exceeded, comment_site_rate_exceeded, comment_live_full or computer_starting response before retrying (up to 3600 for comment_site_rate_exceeded, whose window is an hour). Other 429 problem codes describe separate resource or provider limits and do not inherit this retry value. schema: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 3600 examples: - 42 securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: WorkOS user or agent access token, or Cool Computers API key description: >- A Cool Computers API key, user access token, or claimed agent access token in the Authorization header. Follow https://www.cool.computer/auth.md for agent registration and https://www.cool.computer/authentication.md for direct user credentials. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.