Set doc status

POST/api/v1/set_doc_status

Features

Move ONE documentation page through its lifecycle — the call for 'this spec is approved', 'freeze this decision record', 'mark the old guide deprecated', «эту страницу утвердили», «заморозь», «пометь устаревшей». Statuses: generated — A machine wrote this page and no human has read it yet. draft — Someone is still writing it. Not ready to be read as settled. review — Waiting for a human to read it and decide. approved — A human read this version and signed off. Safe to build work from. Agents may build from it. locked — Frozen on purpose. Agents may read it and build from it, but may not rewrite it. Agents may build from it. deprecated — Superseded. Kept so its links keep working, not to be relied on. archived — History. Neither built from nor edited. Each page also carries a version, bumped automatically by every write that changes its text. That is not a bug to work around by re-approving in the same breath — re-approve after somebody has read the new text. Not every move is legal: from each status only the ones listed for it (get_doc_outline shows where every page sits).

Price — $0.00001 per call (twice what serving it costs us), charged to the workspace balance, the same as over MCP.

Also reachable by name at POST /api/v1/tools/set_doc_status.

Input4

Authorizationheaderrequired

Your API key, sent as Authorization: Bearer dbk_YOUR_API_KEY.Sent from your browser straight to the API — never to Docsbook, never stored.

pathstring · body

The page: a repo file path ('specs/auth.md') or its URL slug ('specs/auth').

statusstring · body

The status to move it to. One of: generated, draft, review, approved, locked, deprecated, archived.

versionstring · body

Optional explicit version, e.g. '1.0' when a draft becomes the first real release. Omit to keep the page's current version — a status change is not an edit.

notestring · body

Why, in the approver's own words. Goes into the commit message and the change record.

Output3

okboolean

Whether the tool itself succeeded. A tool that ran and refused — an exhausted balance, a plan restriction, a bad argument — answers 200 with ok: false: the call was made and billed, and that refusal is its answer.

resultobject

The tool's own JSON answer, already parsed — not a string to parse a second time.

Show child attributes8

pathstring

fromstring

The status the page was at.

tostring

versionstring

lifecycleobject

The page's lifecycle after the move, in the same shape read_doc returns.

unchangedboolean

True when the page already sat there and nothing was committed.

commitShastring

pullRequestobject

duration_msinteger

Server-side wall time for the call.

Limitations

Writes to it are refused.
Writes to it are refused.
🔴 APPROVAL IS OF A VERSION, NOT OF A PAGE: editing an approved page sends it back to review, because the sign-off was of the text that just changed.
🔴 This is the only way to reach approved or locked.
write_docs cannot set them, so an agent can never approve its own output as part of writing it.
REQUIRES a read-write MCP token.

Responses

200The tool ran. Read ok to see whether it succeeded.

401Missing or invalid API key.

Example input

curl -X POST 'https://docsbook.io/api/v1/set_doc_status' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer dbk_YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"status":"generated"}'

Example output

{
  "ok": true,
  "result": {
    "path": "<path>",
    "from": "<from>",
    "to": "<to>",
    "version": "<version>",
    "lifecycle": {},
    "unchanged": true,
    "commitSha": "<commitSha>",
    "pullRequest": {}
  },
  "duration_ms": 0
}

更新于 Sep 24, 2026