acquire_lease
Acquire lease
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Claim one unit of work so concurrent agents do not perform it twice. The first writer receives an owner token and a monotonic fencing token. A later caller receives held, conflict or a reusable completed result. Contention is a normal result. Use a private namespace, or supply a high-entropy unscoped key. No authentication is required.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| namespace | string | no | Optional 256-bit namespace from create_lease_namespace. Keep it secret. |
| key | string | yes | Work identity. With a namespace use 1 to 128 URL-safe ASCII characters, starting with a letter or digit. Without one use a caller-generated secret of 32 to 200 ASCII characters from A-Z, a-z, 0-9, dot, underscore, colon, tilde or hyphen, with at least eight distinct characters. |
| ttl_seconds | integer | no | Ownership period, capped by the absolute 24 hour lifetime. |
| fingerprint | string | no | Optional stable description or digest that binds this key to the same work. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"namespace": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^ns_[A-Za-z0-9_-]{43}$",
"description": "Optional 256-bit namespace from create_lease_namespace. Keep it secret."
},
"key": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 200,
"description": "Work identity. With a namespace use 1 to 128 URL-safe ASCII characters, starting with a letter or digit. Without one use a caller-generated secret of 32 to 200 ASCII characters from A-Z, a-z, 0-9, dot, underscore, colon, tilde or hyphen, with at least eight distinct characters."
},
"ttl_seconds": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 86400,
"default": 60,
"description": "Ownership period, capped by the absolute 24 hour lifetime."
},
"fingerprint": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 512,
"description": "Optional stable description or digest that binds this key to the same work."
}
},
"required": [
"key"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}