lease_renew
Extend a lease you hold
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Extend a lease you still hold, using the fence token you were given. FREE. Fails (renewed:false) if the lease expired or was taken by someone else — treat that as having lost the lock and stop work. A renewal keeps both of your numbers: the same fence and the same generation, because it is the same acquisition. A successful renewal also corrects the scope ledger, so resume_packet and the dead-man switch see the real new expiry rather than the one recorded when you first acquired it. FREE — this tool never charges. Authenticate with Authorization: Bearer <agent_secret>, or pass agent_key as an argument if your host cannot set headers. Equivalent HTTP route: POST /v1/lease/renew.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| key | string | yes | The leased key. Example: 'queue/orders'. |
| holder | string | yes | The same holder id you acquired with. Example: 'worker-3-6f2a91'. |
| fence | integer | yes | The fence token from lease(). Required, and only the caller lease() handed it to has it — it is drawn independently for each acquisition, so it cannot be derived from an earlier one and the example below is a shape, not a usable value. Example: '3170294857216913'. |
| ttl_seconds | integer | no | New lifetime from now. Default 60, max 3600. Example: '60'. |
| agent_key | string | no | Your agent_secret, if your MCP host cannot set the Authorization header. Prefer the header. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"key": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The leased key. Example: 'queue/orders'.",
"examples": [
"queue/orders"
]
},
"holder": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The same holder id you acquired with. Example: 'worker-3-6f2a91'.",
"examples": [
"worker-3-6f2a91"
]
},
"fence": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The fence token from lease(). Required, and only the caller lease() handed it to has it — it is drawn independently for each acquisition, so it cannot be derived from an earlier one and the example below is a shape, not a usable value. Example: '3170294857216913'.",
"examples": [
3170294857216913
]
},
"ttl_seconds": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "New lifetime from now. Default 60, max 3600. Example: '60'.",
"examples": [
60
]
},
"agent_key": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Your agent_secret, if your MCP host cannot set the Authorization header. Prefer the header.",
"examples": [
"the agent_secret that register returned"
]
}
},
"required": [
"key",
"holder",
"fence"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}