Start Mission Control for a project

POST/v1/projects/{projectId}/mission-control/runs

Starts the locked, platform-managed Mission Control workflow with a selected ordinary agent. Operator instructions are optional and the Mission Control system skill is enabled only inside workflow stages.

How to call this endpoint

Every ACP API request uses bearer authentication. The examples here show the actual request path, auth header, and body shape that the platform expects.

Path, query, and header parameters

These parameters control which ACP object the endpoint acts on and how the request is processed.

Path parameters
NameLocationTypeRequiredDescription
projectIdpathstringYesProject ID
Query parameters
None.

Body schema

Content type: application/json · Required

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
agentIdstringYesAgent ID.
environmentIdstringNoComputer ID.
instructionsstringNo—
focusobjectNo—
focus.issuesbooleanNo—
focus.strategybooleanNo—
focus.milestonesbooleanNo—
focus.knowledgebooleanNo—
focus.projectUpdatebooleanNoPost a short project update after the selected maintenance stages. The agent summarizes current state in 1–2 sentences, at most 40 words. Omitted or false skips posting.

What the API returns

Each response code below includes the documented payload shape for the ACP API.

202Mission Control workflow acceptedapplication/json
FieldTypeRequiredDescription
threadobjectYes—
thread.idstringNoUnique identifier.
thread.userIdstringNoUser ID.
thread.organizationIdstringNo—
thread.createdByUserIdstringNo—
thread.projectIdstringNoProject ID.
thread.environmentIdstringNoComputer ID.
thread.agentIdstringNoAgent ID.
thread.titlestringNoDisplay title.
thread.taskstringNo—
thread.appIdstringNo—
thread.statusactive | running | permission_asked | completed | failed | archived | cancelled | deletedNoCurrent lifecycle status.
thread.contextIdstringNo—
thread.contextNamestringNo—
thread.messageCountintegerNo—
thread.lastMessageAtstringNo—
thread.lastMessagePreviewstringNo—
thread.inputTokensintegerNo—
thread.outputTokensintegerNo—
thread.cacheTokensintegerNo—
thread.totalTokensintegerNo—
thread.agentCostnumberNo—
thread.agentCostUsdnumberNo—
thread.environmentCostnumberNo—
thread.environmentCostUsdnumberNo—
thread.totalCostnumberNo—
thread.totalCostUsdnumberNo—
thread.agentCTintegerNo—
thread.environmentCTintegerNo—
thread.totalCTintegerNo—
thread.environmentMinutesnumberNo—
thread.environmentStorageGBnumberNo—
thread.attachmentsobject[]No—
thread.metadataobjectNoFree-form metadata object.
thread.teamExecutionobjectNo—
thread.teamExecution.modeteamNo—
thread.teamExecution.teamAgentIdstringNo—
thread.teamExecution.teamAgentNamestringNo—
thread.teamExecution.orchestratorobjectNo—
thread.teamExecution.orchestrator.agentIdstringNoAgent ID.
thread.teamExecution.orchestrator.agentNamestringNo—
thread.teamExecution.orchestrator.claudeAgentNamestringNo—
thread.teamExecution.subagentsobject[]No—
thread.teamExecution.subagents[].agentIdstringNoAgent ID.
thread.teamExecution.subagents[].agentNamestringNo—
thread.teamExecution.subagents[].claudeAgentNamestringNo—
thread.subagentActivityobject[]No—
thread.subagentActivity[].agentIdstringNoAgent ID.
thread.subagentActivity[].agentNamestringNo—
thread.subagentActivity[].claudeAgentNamestringNo—
thread.subagentActivity[].eventCountintegerNo—
thread.subagentActivity[].lastActiveAtstringNo—
thread.subagentActivity[].teamAgentIdstringNo—
thread.subagentActivity[].teamAgentNamestringNo—
thread.environmentNamestringNo—
thread.agentNamestringNo—
thread.agentPhotoUrlstringNo—
thread.agentAvatarUrlstringNo—
thread.startedAtstringNoISO 8601 timestamp.
thread.completedAtstringNoISO 8601 timestamp.
thread.durationstringNo—
thread.queuedInBatchbooleanNo—
thread.batchJobIdstringNo—
thread.admissionReasonstringNo—
thread.createdAtstringNoISO 8601 timestamp.
thread.updatedAtstringNoISO 8601 timestamp.
metronomeobjectYes—
runobjectYes—
outputobjectNo—
400Invalid requestapplication/json
FieldTypeRequiredDescription
errorstringYes—
messagestringNoMessage text.
codestringNo—
404Resource not foundapplication/json
FieldTypeRequiredDescription
errorstringNo—
Start Mission Control for a project
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