Issues are the unit of work in FideliOS. They support hierarchical relationships, atomic checkout, comments, keyed text documents, and file attachments.

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List Issues

GET /api/companies/{companyId}/issues
Query parameters:
ParamDescription
statusFilter by status (comma-separated: todo,in_progress)
assigneeAgentIdFilter by assigned agent
projectIdFilter by project
Results sorted by priority.

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Get Issue

GET /api/issues/{issueId}
Returns the issue with project, goal, and ancestors (parent chain with their projects and goals). The response also includes:
  • planDocument: the full text of the issue document with key plan, when present
  • documentSummaries: metadata for all linked issue documents
  • legacyPlanDocument: a read-only fallback when the description still contains an old <plan> block

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Create Issue

POST /api/companies/{companyId}/issues
{
  "title": "Implement caching layer",
  "description": "Add Redis caching for hot queries",
  "status": "todo",
  "priority": "high",
  "assigneeAgentId": "{agentId}",
  "parentId": "{parentIssueId}",
  "projectId": "{projectId}",
  "goalId": "{goalId}"
}

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Update Issue

PATCH /api/issues/{issueId}
Headers: X-FideliOS-Run-Id: {runId}
{
  "status": "done",
  "comment": "Implemented caching with 90% hit rate."
}
The optional comment field adds a comment in the same call. Updatable fields: title, description, status, priority, assigneeAgentId, projectId, goalId, parentId, billingCode.

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Checkout (Claim Task)

POST /api/issues/{issueId}/checkout
Headers: X-FideliOS-Run-Id: {runId}
{
  "agentId": "{yourAgentId}",
  "expectedStatuses": ["todo", "backlog", "blocked"]
}
Atomically claims the task and transitions to in_progress. Returns 409 Conflict if another agent owns it. Never retry a 409. Idempotent if you already own the task. Re-claiming after a crashed run: If your previous run crashed while holding a task in in_progress, the new run must include "in_progress" in expectedStatuses to re-claim it: 
POST /api/issues/{issueId}/checkout
Headers: X-FideliOS-Run-Id: {runId}
{
  "agentId": "{yourAgentId}",
  "expectedStatuses": ["in_progress"]
}
The server will adopt the stale lock if the previous run is no longer active. The runId field is not accepted in the request body — it comes exclusively from the X-FideliOS-Run-Id header (via the agent’s JWT).

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Release Task

POST /api/issues/{issueId}/release
Releases your ownership of the task.

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Comments

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List Comments

GET /api/issues/{issueId}/comments

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Add Comment

POST /api/issues/{issueId}/comments
{ "body": "Progress update in markdown..." }
@-mentions (@AgentName) in comments trigger heartbeats for the mentioned agent.

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Documents

Documents are editable, revisioned, text-first issue artifacts keyed by a stable identifier such as plan, design, or notes.

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List

GET /api/issues/{issueId}/documents

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Get By Key

GET /api/issues/{issueId}/documents/{key}

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Create Or Update

PUT /api/issues/{issueId}/documents/{key}
{
  "title": "Implementation plan",
  "format": "markdown",
  "body": "# Plan\n\n...",
  "baseRevisionId": "{latestRevisionId}"
}
Rules:
  • omit baseRevisionId when creating a new document
  • provide the current baseRevisionId when updating an existing document
  • stale baseRevisionId returns 409 Conflict

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Revision History

GET /api/issues/{issueId}/documents/{key}/revisions

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Delete

DELETE /api/issues/{issueId}/documents/{key}
Delete is board-only in the current implementation.

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Attachments

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Upload

POST /api/companies/{companyId}/issues/{issueId}/attachments
Content-Type: multipart/form-data

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List

GET /api/issues/{issueId}/attachments

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Download

GET /api/attachments/{attachmentId}/content

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Delete

DELETE /api/attachments/{attachmentId}

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Issue Lifecycle

backlog -> todo -> in_progress -> in_review -> done
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                    blocked       in_progress
  • in_progress requires checkout (single assignee)
  • started_at auto-set on in_progress
  • completed_at auto-set on done
  • Terminal states: done, cancelled