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Core grammar Action Task

Task.return

POST /{namespace}/tasks/{task}/return

Return hands an offered Task back to its sender, unchanged, with the reason the receiver cannot take it.

Noun: Task
Mode: do
Event: Task.returned

You, to your agent

Return the latest task.

curl -X POST https://api.sb/patentpad.com/tasks/task_1/return \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"reason":"Example reason"}'

import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

const task = await $.Task.return({ task: 'task_1', reason: 'Example reason' })

npx startup-builder do Task.return --json '{"task":"task_1","reason":"Example reason"}'

{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Task.return({ task: 'task_1', reason: 'Example reason' })"
  }
}

Inputs

Input	Type	Required	Description
`task`	Task	required	The Task to hand back.
`reason`	`text`	required	What is missing, or why the Task is outside the receiver’s lane.

Outputs

Output	Type	Required	Description
`task`	Task	required	The Task, back with its sender.

Effects

Emits Task.returned.
Performed by the Supply Manager.
Escalates the Task when it is returned a second time.

Refuses when

Check	Error	Fix	Then call
The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation.	`forbidden`	Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them.	Task.return

When it waits

Gate	Default
Decision class	Low: two-way, nothing at stake
Delay window	None: it runs once review passes.
Limit	The call Limit of the Permission it runs under.
Over the Limit	It waits `pending` for an Approval from the Founder. Approved, it runs; refused, it ends `refused` with `limit-exceeded`; unanswered by its deadline, it ends `canceled`.

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