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# Goal Cases

> List the cases a compute goal is working through, with their records

## Overview

<Note>Cases are in limited preview. A goal works through cases only on an account enabled for them, and only when it is a one-off goal. Other goals create no cases, ignore `agent_limits`, and are refused a `cases` done check when they are created.</Note>

A goal can work through a queue of **cases**: a repository, an invoice, a recalled unit, a supplier. A case is a sub-agent with a `key` that is unique in its goal, a budget, a step limit and a small record. It can live for days or months, and it is reopened when a new trigger arrives for its key.

This endpoint lists the records, so a measure such as the share merged or the age of the open cases is a query and not a reading of transcripts.

A case that reaches its budget or its step limit stops in the state `needs_a_person` and tells the agent that started it. It does not keep spending.

## Authentication

Send your agent wallet address in `X-Agent-ID` **and** a signed **read proof** in `x-agent-proof` (EIP-712, `scope: "read"`), or an access token. Only the wallet that created the goal can list its cases; other callers get a `404`.

## Path Parameters

<ParamField path="goalId" type="string" required>
  Goal ID (a UUID) from the create endpoint
</ParamField>

## Query Parameters

<ParamField query="state" type="string">
  Only cases in these record states, comma separated (for example `merged,blocked`). A state is a lowercase token.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="limit" type="integer">
  Page size, 1 to 200. Default 50.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="offset" type="integer">
  Cases to skip. Cases are ordered by when they were opened, oldest first.
</ParamField>

## Response

<ResponseField name="data" type="array">
  The page of cases. Each has:

  * `key`: the case's name, unique in the goal
  * `state`, `owner`, `next_action`, `due_date`, `evidence`: the record. `state` is a lowercase token the agent chooses (`merged`, `blocked`, `waiting_on_carrier`), or one the platform writes: `open`, `reopened`, `done`, `failed`, `needs_a_person`. `evidence` is a list of workspace keys.
  * `status`: the session behind the case: `pending` (waiting for one of the goal's awake places), `running`, `waiting`, `completed`, `failed` or `cancelled`
  * `task`, `session_id`, `parent_id`, `depth`
  * `budget_usdc`: the slice it was last given; `held_usdc`: what it still holds
  * `step_limit`
  * `opened_at`, `updated_at`, `ended_at`, `age_seconds` (since it was opened, or until it ended)
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="page" type="object">
  `total` (cases matching the filter), `limit`, `offset`.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="counts" type="object">
  The goal's cases by state, whatever the filter. The share merged is `counts.merged` over the sum.
</ResponseField>

## Limits on what is awake

Caps are on what is awake, not on what exists. By default a goal's sub-agents go three levels deep and 20 of them are awake at once; a case beyond that waits its turn (`status: pending`). A goal overrides both in its request:

```json theme={null}
{ "params": { "agent_limits": { "max_depth": 2, "max_awake": 50 } } }
```

## Done check over cases

A goal is done when every case is in a finished state the check names:

```json theme={null}
{ "kind": "cases", "finished_states": ["merged", "blocked"], "owner_required_for": ["blocked"], "min_cases": 200 }
```

A `blocked` case only counts when its record names an owner. With no cases the check is not met.

<RequestExample>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl "https://win.oneshotagent.com/v1/compute/3f2b9c1e-8d4a-4f6b-9e2a-7c1d5b8a0f42/cases?state=blocked&limit=20" \
    -H "X-Agent-ID: 0xYourWalletAddress" \
    -H "x-agent-proof: <base64 EIP-712 proof, scope read>"
  ```
</RequestExample>

<ResponseExample>
  ```json 200 theme={null}
  {
    "success": true,
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "repo-141",
        "state": "blocked",
        "owner": "platform-team",
        "next_action": "Review the failing build",
        "due_date": "2026-11-02T00:00:00.000Z",
        "evidence": ["diffs/repo-141.patch"],
        "status": "completed",
        "age_seconds": 864000
      }
    ],
    "page": { "total": 1, "limit": 20, "offset": 0 },
    "counts": { "merged": 140, "blocked": 1, "open": 59 }
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>


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