Stand aside from a review this participant cannot decide, for example on a conflict of interest or for want of context. Use it in place of chap.decide.reject, which judges the work; abstaining judges nothing and leaves the artefact intact. It requires an open review addressed to the caller and answers -32010 otherwise. The task moves to abstained, which is not terminal: chap.escalate.raise or a fresh chap.review.request can still carry it forward.

Read entries from a workspace's audit log, optionally within a sequence range and filtered by method, sender, task or outcome. This is the query surface for everything the workspace has recorded, decisions and overrides included. An accepted call is under 'envelope'. A refused attempt the coordinator recorded, such as a decision by someone the review was not addressed to, is under 'request' with an 'outcome' giving the error code, and it did not take effect. Reads only: it records nothing, so it never appears in its own output. Entries come back as recorded, without aggregation, so grouping them, by tag for instance, is the reader's job.

Build COSE_Sign1-shaped statements for a range of audit entries and submit them to the configured SCITT transparency service. Where none is configured the statements are returned for submission out of band.

Replay a workspace's prev-hash chain. Only status verified with ok true means the log was checked and is intact. Status not_evaluated with ok false means part of the log was never checked, so its integrity is unknown and must not be reported as verified; entries_unchecked says how much. An error means the chain is broken or absent.

Check a receipt returned by an external SCITT transparency service, confirming that service logged the statement. This is the external half of verification; chap.audit.verify_chain checks the local prev-hash chain instead, and the two answer different questions. Verification is delegated to a hook the deployment supplies and fails closed with -32082 when none is configured, so a missing verifier can never read as a pass. Reads only: nothing is recorded.

Cancel a task. Cancelled is terminal, and a task that has already settled cannot be cancelled.

Pause work. Scoped to a task it moves that task to paused; to a participant it stops new tasks being assigned to them; to the workspace it refuses every method except describing, reading the audit log, joining, leaving and resuming.

Resume work paused at the same scope: a task returns to the state it held at the pause, a participant can be assigned tasks again, a workspace returns to active.

Restore workspace state from a snapshot. The mode ceiling and member roles are restored; the rollback is appended to the audit log rather than rewriting it.

Set the highest operating mode tasks in this workspace may request. A task above the ceiling is refused.

Capture the workspace state as an artefact before a change you may want to undo. Returns a snapshot artefact id, which is the only thing chap.control.rollback accepts as a target; the label is for a human reading the log and cannot be used to select it. Taking a snapshot changes nothing. Note that a rollback restores only the mode ceiling and member roles, so a snapshot is a narrow safety net rather than a general undo.

Replace a task with a successor in one call. The original moves to superseded and stays linked to its replacement. The successor requires review when the original did, whatever its own review_required says, and a paused assignee is refused with -32063.

Approve the artefact under review as it stands. Only a reviewer the review was addressed to may decide, and anyone else is refused with -32011. The task completes once the review's rule is satisfied, so under all_approve or quorum:N an approval may leave the review open awaiting others. Use chap.decide.override instead to accept a corrected version.

Correct the artefact under review with an RFC 6902 JSON Patch and accept the result. The patch, the rationale and any tags are recorded together, so the audit log holds what was changed and why, rather than only that the work was not accepted as written.

Reject the artefact under review. The task is declined, or returns to in_progress when request_revision is set, which is the choice between ending the work and sending it back. Only a reviewer the review was addressed to may decide. Use chap.decide.override instead to correct the artefact and accept it rather than refuse it.

Close a deliberation and compute its outcome from the votes cast under its rule. Closing is final: further comments and votes are refused with -32032. Calling it again on a closed deliberation returns the same outcome and changes nothing, so a retry is safe. Votes never cast are simply absent from the tally rather than counted as abstentions.

Record a comment on an open deliberation, so the reasoning behind a vote survives alongside the tally. Comments carry no weight in the outcome and may be added by any participant at any point before chap.deliberate.close.

Open a group decision among several participants under a stated voting rule: any_one_approves, all_approve, quorum:N, weighted_vote:T or weighted_vote_with_veto:T. Use it where several people must weigh in on one question; chap.review.request is the tool for judging one participant's output. Returns a deliberation_id that the comment, vote and close tools all take. The participant list, rule, weights and veto map are fixed at open, so the terms are settled before anyone votes. No outcome exists until chap.deliberate.close computes one.

Cast a yea, nay or abstain in an open deliberation. Each participant votes once and a second attempt answers -32031, so a vote cannot be revised. An abstention is recorded but counts as neither side, which under all_approve or quorum:N withholds the approval those rules need. The tally is computed later, by chap.deliberate.close.

Evaluate a task's routing hints against the escalation policy and report whether it should be escalated, and to whom. It decides only: a route_decision artefact is recorded but the task does not move, so act on the answer with chap.escalate.raise. The default policy escalates on criticality critical, or high with confidence below 0.6.

Hand a task upwards, where the current holder can act but should not decide alone. The original moves to escalated and is linked to a new task for whoever takes it on. Use chap.handoff.propose to pass work sideways without that link, and chap.control.supersede to replace a task outright. The successor starts with an empty input unless one is supplied, so restate whatever the new assignee needs. A completed, cancelled or superseded task cannot be escalated. The successor takes the mode new_task.mode names, or else the original's, and requires review when the original did, or when it is a trial task under modes/1.0. A paused assignee is refused with -32063, and a mode above the workspace's current ceiling with -32040; after the ceiling is lowered, name a mode within it.

Accept a proposed handoff. The accepted tasks are reassigned to the accepting participant, which is the point at which responsibility actually moves. Omitting accepted_task_ids accepts all of them. Accepting resolves the proposal for good: a later accept or decline on the same handoff answers -32051. A paused participant cannot accept and is refused with -32063.

Decline a proposed handoff. The tasks stay with the proposer and nothing is reassigned, which is the difference from chap.handoff.accept. Declining resolves the proposal for good: a later accept or decline on the same handoff answers -32051, and trying again means a fresh proposal. The reason is recorded so the proposer can route the work elsewhere.

Propose handing one or more tasks to another participant or a group, with the context needed to pick them up. Every task must currently be assigned to the proposer.

Add a participant to a workspace. The type given, human, agent, service, group or workspace, decides whether they are eligible to review work that requires it.

Remove a participant from a workspace. Entries they have already written stay in the audit log and their past signatures still verify, so leaving is not a way to withdraw a decision. They can no longer be assigned tasks or act as a reviewer, and returning means a fresh chap.participant.join.

Revoke a signing key, for example after a device is lost. Signatures presented with it are refused from then on. Revoking another participant's key requires the admin role.

Retire a participant's signing key and register its replacement. The old key stays in the key history with a valid_until timestamp, so envelopes it signed still verify.

Decide how much review a task warrants, skip, spot_check or full, from its routing hints. Records a route_decision artefact giving the rule that produced the answer.

Open a review on a task and address it to one or more reviewers. They then call chap.decide.approve, chap.decide.reject, chap.decide.override or chap.abstain.declare. Repeating the request with the same artefact adds reviewers to the open review.

Submit a task's output. A task that requires review does not complete: the output is held as the artefact under review, the task moves to review_requested, and a reviewer decision completes it. Any other task completes immediately.

Create a task: a unit of work assigned to one participant. Set review_required to make completion depend on a reviewer decision rather than on the assignee. Returns a task_id that the rest of the lifecycle takes. Supplying idempotency_key is what makes a retry safe: a repeat carrying a key already seen returns the original task, while a repeat without one creates a second task. Assigning to a paused member is refused.

Choose an assignee for a task from a list of candidates and reassign the task to the one selected. Use it where the choice itself belongs on the record: it writes a route_decision artefact naming the policy, the candidate chosen and the alternatives passed over, none of which is captured by setting assignee directly on chap.task.create. The default policy takes the first candidate that is a workspace member and is not paused. An operator-supplied policy may choose on any basis, and the call is refused with -32510 when its choice is not a member, or with -32063 when its choice is paused.

Move a task to a new state. Only the transitions in the specification's lifecycle table are accepted, and a task that requires review cannot be completed here.

Answer an open whisper. Where the question carried options, the answer must name one of their ids and any other value is refused with -32022. A whisper already answered is refused with -32020 and one past its deadline with -32021, in which case the default supplied at chap.whisper.ask has already been applied.

Put one question to one or more participants, with a deadline and a default. If the deadline passes unanswered the default applies, so a task is never blocked waiting on a reply.

Create a workspace: the container for the participants, tasks and audit log of one piece of collaborative work. Returns the workspace id, which every later call carries.

Report the current state of a workspace: its members, enabled profiles, audit length, and task and override counts.

Replace the whole set of profiles enabled on a workspace. The list is not merged: any profile absent from it is dropped, so send the complete set you want. Enabling audit-scitt/1.0 on a workspace that already has entries starts the chain from that point and leaves the earlier entries permanently outside it, which chap.audit.verify_chain then reports as not_evaluated. Prefer setting profiles at chap.workspace.create, where no entries exist yet to strand.