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title: "Run a job on an agent computer – Superbot API"
canonical_url: "https://superbot.gg/developers/devices/createAgentJob"
summary: "Queue one device-shell job on a linked agent computer, by its id. First-party only: a session or a device token of your own Superbot app; agent computer tokens, MCP connectors, caller keys and the account API key are refused (403). An asleep agent computer answers `queued_asleep`; the job waits for its next poll up to 600 s."
---

> Markdown of https://superbot.gg/developers/devices/createAgentJob. Site index: /llms.txt.

# Run a job on an agent computer

`POST /v1/devices/{device_id}/jobs`

Queue one device-shell job on a linked agent computer, by its id. First-party only: a session or a device token of your own Superbot app; agent computer tokens, MCP connectors, caller keys and the account API key are refused (403). An asleep agent computer answers `queued_asleep`; the job waits for its next poll up to 600 s.

- Operation id: `createAgentJob`
- Group: [Devices](https://superbot.gg/developers/devices.md)
- Auth: A caller key holding `devices:write` (`Authorization: Bearer sbc_…` or `x-api-key: sbc_…`), or a signed-in session.
- Scopes: `devices:write`

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `device_id` | string | required | An agent computer (`agt_…`) on your account. |

## Request body

`application/json`, required.

- `kind` (AgentJobKind, required): The device-shell job kinds a first-party device may run on an agent computer. One of `bash`, `bash_write`, `bash_output`, `bash_kill`, `bash_resize`, `read`, `write`, `glob`, `grep`.
- `args` (object, required): The relay tool's own args, camelCase, per kind: bash {command, cwd?, timeoutMs?, runInBackground?, interactive?} (interactive: a real tty, answered with bash_write; open a terminal pane with {command: <login shell>, runInBackground: true, interactive: true}, whose result carries {type: 'terminal', terminalId}); bash_write {terminalId, input, newline?}; bash_output {terminalId, since?, wait?}; bash_kill {terminalId}; bash_resize {terminalId, cols, rows} (a terminal pane's resize of an interactive terminal's tty: integers, cols 20..500, rows 5..200; a non-interactive terminal answers not_a_tty); read {path, line?, limit?}; write {path, content, overwrite?}; glob {pattern, cwd?}; grep {pattern, path?, cwd?}. Unknown keys are refused.

## Response 201

Queued.

`application/json`: AgentJobEnqueueResponse.

- `job_id` (string, required)
- `state` (AgentJobState, required): `queued_asleep`: the agent computer has no open poll; the job waits for its next poll inside the 600 s TTL. `expired`: the TTL ran out before a result. One of `queued`, `queued_asleep`, `claimed`, `done`, `failed`, `expired`.
- `expires_at` (string, required): ISO 8601, 600 s after the enqueue.

## Errors

Every refusal carries `error`, `message`, `doc_url` and `request_id`; the gateway routes answer in the dialect you dialed.

| Status | Codes | When |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 400 | [`invalid_request`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-invalid_request) | The request is malformed or a parameter is invalid; `param` names the field. |
| 401 | [`unauthorized`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-unauthorized) | The bearer is missing, malformed or unknown. |
| 403 | [`insufficient_scope`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-insufficient_scope) | The key lacks a scope (insufficient_scope), is revoked, or may not call this route. |
| 404 | [`not_found`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-not_found) | No such resource on this account. |
| 429 | [`rate_limited`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-rate_limited) | Over the per-key request bucket; retry after x-ratelimit-reset. |

## Examples

```sh
curl -sS -X POST "https://superbot.gg/v1/devices/$DEVICE_ID/jobs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUPERBOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"kind":"bash","args":{}}'
```

```js
const deviceId = 'DEVICE_ID';
const res = await fetch(`https://superbot.gg/v1/devices/${deviceId}/jobs`, {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SUPERBOT_API_KEY}`,
    'content-type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({"kind":"bash","args":{}}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.json());
```

```python
import os
import requests

device_id = "DEVICE_ID"
res = requests.request(
    "POST",
    f"https://superbot.gg/v1/devices/{device_id}/jobs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SUPERBOT_API_KEY']}",
        "content-type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"kind":"bash","args":{}},
)
print(res.status_code, res.json())
```