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niche_session_cancel

Cancel a session

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Cancel a running session. Marks status=failed with an error_message ('cancelled by user' or the caller's reason), and stops the in-flight orchestrator if any.

Used when you want to free a slot under the concurrent-session cap without deleting the session (history and audit trail preserved). Use the REST DELETE endpoint if you want a hard archive cleanup that also wipes outputs.

Idempotent: cancelling a completed / already-failed session returns its current state unchanged.

Credits: the unused hold is released; work already committed (e.g. the discovery for a story you picked) stays charged, so cancelling does not refund committed work. A pre-CP1 cancel (nothing committed yet) is effectively free. A full refund applies only to an actual run failure.

Input schema

PropertyTypeRequiredDescription
session_idstringyes
reasonstringnoOptional. Surfaced as session.error_message.
Raw JSON schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "session_id": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "reason": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional. Surfaced as session.error_message."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "session_id"
  ]
}

First seen 2026-09-14 · last seen 2026-09-15