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# Ask or update one open question on an explicit origin



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json post /api/v1/decisions/ask
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  description: >-
    OpenAPI 3.1 spec auto-generated from the Ravi CLI registry. Each operation
    maps 1:1 to a `ravi <group> <command>` invocation.
  title: Ravi API
  version: 8b8105209951c237
servers:
  - description: Local Ravi gateway (default)
    url: http://localhost:3000
security: []
tags:
  - description: Ask a Ravi Page's managers for access and follow the request
    name: access
  - description: Inspect session adapters and their debug snapshots
    name: adapters
  - description: >-
      The operator's calendar in the Ravi Console: meetings, recording and
      briefings
    name: agenda
  - description: Agent management
    name: agents
  - description: Discover and validate Ravi app manifests
    name: apps
  - description: Generic artifact ledger and lineage tools
    name: artifacts
  - description: Audio generation tools (TTS)
    name: audio
  - description: Typed project databases (Bases) in Ravi Console
    name: bases
  - description: Enroll the private Console human bridge
    name: bridge
  - description: Manage Ravi MCP bridges through Console
    name: bridges
  - description: File, comment on, and track global Ravi bug reports on Console
    name: bug
  - description: Manage local-first Ravi calendars
    name: calendars
  - description: Manage native Ravi channel runner
    name: channels
  - description: Inspect canonical chats, messages, and reading queues
    name: chats
  - name: cloud
  - description: Manage Ravi prompt commands
    name: commands
  - description: >-
      Connect and manage your own accounts (Gmail, Calendar, ...) through Ravi
      Console
    name: connectors
  - description: Contact management
    name: contacts
  - description: Runtime context registry and introspection
    name: context
  - description: Inspect token and cost tracking
    name: costs
  - name: credentials
  - description: CRM relationship surface
    name: crm
  - description: Scheduled job management
    name: cron
  - description: Manage ravi via PM2
    name: daemon
  - description: Inspect ravi.db state (locks, WAL, holders)
    name: db
  - description: Explicit questions and immutable answers owned by tasks or threads
    name: decisions
  - name: devin
  - description: Run reproducible evaluation tasks against Ravi
    name: eval
  - description: Stream live NATS events
    name: events
  - description: Send structured feedback to Ravi Console
    name: feedback
  - description: >-
      Operate Gmail through a connected Google account (yours, the person
      asking's, or a shared one)
    name: gmail
  - description: Heartbeat scheduling management
    name: heartbeat
  - description: Generic runtime hooks
    name: hooks
  - description: Link chat people to their Ravi Console account
    name: identity
  - description: Image generation tools
    name: image
  - description: Local Ravi inbox and Console delivery compatibility commands
    name: inbox
  - description: Operational insights with explicit lineage
    name: insights
  - description: Instance management (channels, policies, routes)
    name: instances
  - description: Invite people into the Console organization by email
    name: invites
  - description: Execução de chamada longa em background, com desfecho entregue na sessão
    name: jobs
  - description: Search what the org said and published, with sources
    name: knowledge
  - description: Use local-first Ravi mail
    name: mail
  - description: Media sending
    name: media
  - description: Meeting artifact and provider operations
    name: meetings
  - description: Daily metrics rollup and reporting
    name: metrics
  - description: Inspect Observation Plane bindings
    name: observers
  - description: Manage project-owned Ravi Pages and publish content through Console
    name: pages
  - description: Inspect provider-runtime authorization
    name: permissions
  - description: Publish verified GitHub pull requests and reconcile CI follow
    name: pr
  - description: List and create the organization's projects in Ravi Console
    name: projects
  - name: prox
  - description: Emoji reactions
    name: react
  - description: Inspect route config and live routing without drilling into instances
    name: routes
  - description: Manage Ravi runtime prompt rules
    name: rules
  - name: runtime
  - description: Run one Ravi task in a disposable E2B cloud sandbox and collect its patch
    name: sandbox
  - name: sdk
  - description: Read the current Ravi agent/session/chat context
    name: self
  - description: Bot service management
    name: service
  - description: Manage agent sessions
    name: sessions
  - description: Global settings management
    name: settings
  - description: Durable world conditions with piggyback delivery
    name: signals
  - description: Manage runtime skill gate rules
    name: skill-gates
  - description: Skill discovery, install and inspection tools
    name: skills
  - description: Native Slack workspace operations
    name: slack
  - description: Versioned Ravi specs memory
    name: specs
  - description: Sticker library management and sending
    name: stickers
  - description: Local-first sync outbox, inbox, and Console bridge
    name: sync
  - description: Deterministic tag classification rules
    name: tag-rules
  - description: Unified tags for Ravi assets
    name: tags
  - description: Task runtime for dispatching work to Ravi agents
    name: tasks
  - description: >-
      Org and project themes in the Console Library: check, publish, propose and
      set the active theme
    name: themes
  - description: Manage Ravi threads
    name: threads
  - description: CLI tools inspection and export
    name: tools
  - description: Audio transcription
    name: transcribe
  - description: Event triggers
    name: triggers
  - description: Video analysis tools
    name: video
  - description: Create watches and wire their events to triggers
    name: watch
  - name: whatsapp
  - description: >-
      Widget templates in the Console Library: catalog, check, preview, publish
      and propose
    name: widgets
  - description: Resolve and mutate generic Work Objects through Ravi domain adapters
    name: work-objects
  - name: workflows
  - description: >-
      Operate YouTube Data API v3 and YouTube Analytics API v2 through Ravi
      credentials
    name: yt
paths:
  /api/v1/decisions/ask:
    post:
      tags:
        - decisions
      summary: Ask or update one open question on an explicit origin
      operationId: decisions.ask
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              additionalProperties: false
              properties:
                ask:
                  description: Explicit question
                  type: string
                blocks:
                  description: Blocks work; a human-owned task decision derives parked
                  type: boolean
                execute:
                  description: 'Required for a thread: publishes the question'
                  type: boolean
                key:
                  description: Stable question key within the origin
                  type: string
                owner:
                  description: >-
                    human:<contact>|agent:<id>|unassigned; ownership is not
                    approval authority
                  type: string
                task:
                  description: Originating task
                  type: string
                thread:
                  description: Managed thread child session or lifecycle id
                  type: string
              type: object
        required: false
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                additionalProperties: false
                properties:
                  created:
                    type: boolean
                  decision:
                    additionalProperties: false
                    properties:
                      answer:
                        anyOf:
                          - type: string
                          - type: 'null'
                      answeredAt:
                        anyOf:
                          - type: number
                          - type: 'null'
                      answeredBy:
                        anyOf:
                          - type: string
                          - type: 'null'
                      ask:
                        type: string
                      askedAt:
                        type: number
                      askedBy:
                        anyOf:
                          - type: string
                          - type: 'null'
                      blocks:
                        type: boolean
                      createdAt:
                        type: number
                      id:
                        type: string
                      key:
                        type: string
                      origin:
                        additionalProperties: false
                        properties:
                          chatId:
                            anyOf:
                              - type: string
                              - type: 'null'
                          id:
                            type: string
                          sessionKey:
                            anyOf:
                              - type: string
                              - type: 'null'
                          type:
                            enum:
                              - task
                              - thread
                            type: string
                        required:
                          - type
                          - id
                          - chatId
                          - sessionKey
                        type: object
                      ownerId:
                        anyOf:
                          - type: string
                          - type: 'null'
                      ownerType:
                        enum:
                          - human
                          - agent
                          - unassigned
                        type: string
                      revision:
                        type: number
                      status:
                        enum:
                          - open
                          - answered
                          - superseded
                        type: string
                      updatedAt:
                        type: number
                    required:
                      - id
                      - origin
                      - key
                      - status
                      - ownerType
                      - ownerId
                      - ask
                      - askedBy
                      - askedAt
                      - answer
                      - answeredBy
                      - answeredAt
                      - blocks
                      - revision
                      - createdAt
                      - updatedAt
                    type: object
                  deliveries:
                    items:
                      additionalProperties: false
                      properties:
                        attempts:
                          type: number
                        decisionId:
                          type: string
                        deliveredAt:
                          anyOf:
                            - type: number
                            - type: 'null'
                        id:
                          type: string
                        kind:
                          enum:
                            - question
                            - answer
                          type: string
                        lastError:
                          anyOf:
                            - type: string
                            - type: 'null'
                        nextAttemptAt:
                          type: number
                        revision:
                          type: number
                        status:
                          enum:
                            - pending
                            - publishing
                            - published
                            - accepting
                            - delivered
                            - failed
                            - uncertain
                            - superseded
                          type: string
                      required:
                        - id
                        - decisionId
                        - kind
                        - revision
                        - status
                        - attempts
                        - nextAttemptAt
                        - lastError
                        - deliveredAt
                      type: object
                    type: array
                required:
                  - decision
                  - deliveries
                type: object
          description: Success — body conforms to the `@Returns` schema.
        '400':
          description: Bad request — body failed schema validation.
        '500':
          description: Internal error.
      security: []

````

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