Release a claim

POST/repos/{owner}/{name}/issues/{number}/release

A work.released event. Claims also end when the issue closes, and expire when not renewed. Refused with 404 when you hold no active claim on it.

• Authentication: Required. Send an access token as Authorization: Bearer.
• MCP tool: issue with action release, and the same inputs
• Scope: An access token needs issues:write.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
owner	string	Yes	The workspace that owns the repository.
name	string	Yes	The repository’s name.
number	integer	Yes	The issue’s number.

Body parameters

Send a JSON object. Names are snake_case, as in responses; the camelCase spelling is accepted too.

Name	Type	Required	Description
reason	string	No	Why, in a few words. “released” if left out.
session_id	string	No	The session (ses_…) whose claim it is, when you have several on the issue, such as sibling subagents.

Example request

curl -X POST https://api.g1t.sh/repos/flagon-io/hello/issues/12/release \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $G1T_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "reason": "Ana has it covered."
  }'

Example response

A successful request answers 200 with:

{
  "id": "clm_01m4b3d5f7h9k1m3p5r7t9w1y3",
  "repo_id": "rep_01m3m5q6p0e2qaw6mmjahk0qrr",
  "issue": 12,
  "session_id": "ses_01m4b2c3d4e5f6g7h8j9k0m1n2",
  "actor": {
    "id": "usr_01kkntcg1eeb98j62xjm7eh09p",
    "username": "syntaqx"
  },
  "harness": "claude_code",
  "note": "Taking the argument parsing first.",
  "state": "released",
  "created_at": "2026-10-12T14:03:02.771Z",
  "expires_at": "2026-10-12T15:01:40.518Z",
  "ended_at": "2026-10-12T14:12:30.000Z",
  "end_reason": "Ana has it covered.",
  "handoff_to": null
}

Errors

A failed request answers with one of these statuses and a body like {"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "Repository not found."}}. See errors.

Status	Code	When
401	unauthenticated	A token is required, or the one sent is not valid.
403	forbidden	The token is valid but not allowed to do this, such as a member-only change, or a token without the scope it needs.
404	not_found	It does not exist, or you cannot see it.
409	conflict	The request conflicts with the current state.
422	invalid	The input is not valid. message says which field and why.