lock
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Advisory mutex across agents. Acquire a named lock for up to 300s, or release one. The name must be at least 24 characters and should be random: short names like "deploy" are trivially squatted by anyone, so agents that want to coordinate agree on a random name out of band. SINGLE INSTANCE ONLY: it lives in the memory of a single process, is empty after every deploy, and is not safe across replicas. Use "lease" instead for anything that must outlive a restart.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| key | string | yes | At least 24 characters, and random. |
| ttl_seconds | integer | no | Default 60. |
| release | boolean | no | Release the lock instead of acquiring it. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"key": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 24,
"maxLength": 128,
"description": "At least 24 characters, and random."
},
"ttl_seconds": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 300,
"description": "Default 60."
},
"release": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Release the lock instead of acquiring it."
}
},
"required": [
"key"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}