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# Start one evaluation session per target

> Resolves a bounded target set, then starts one public evaluation root session per target. All items share an evaluation_batch_id. Each item reports its own session id or start error because a later target can fail after earlier sessions commit. A stopped target workspace is cloned and bound to an unchanged transcript watermark before the evaluator runs; an active or incoherent target is rejected.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /recursion/openapi.yaml post /managed-agents/v1/evaluations
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Managed Agents API
  version: 0.15.0
  description: >-
    The Recursion Managed Agents REST API. Authenticate with a Recursion API key
    as a bearer token. An organization-scoped key acts in its own organization
    and needs nothing else; a tenant-scoped key must also send
    `x-organization-id` with an organization id or `default`. Field names follow
    each operation's published schema.
servers:
  - url: https://api.recursion.labelbox.com
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
paths:
  /managed-agents/v1/evaluations:
    post:
      tags:
        - Evaluations
      summary: Start one evaluation session per target
      description: >-
        Resolves a bounded target set, then starts one public evaluation root
        session per target. All items share an evaluation_batch_id. Each item
        reports its own session id or start error because a later target can
        fail after earlier sessions commit. A stopped target workspace is cloned
        and bound to an unchanged transcript watermark before the evaluator
        runs; an active or incoherent target is rejected.
      operationId: managedAgentsStartEvaluations
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/RecursionTenantId'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/RecursionOrganizationId'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/StandaloneStartEvaluationsRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EvaluationBatchStartResult'
          description: OK
          headers:
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
        '400':
          description: Bad Request.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                oneOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorInvalidJson'
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorInvalidRequest'
                discriminator:
                  propertyName: code
                  mapping:
                    invalid_json: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorInvalidJson'
                    invalid_request: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorInvalidRequest'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - invalid_json
                  - invalid_request
          headers:
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorUnauthorized'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - unauthorized
          headers:
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
        '403':
          description: Forbidden.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorForbidden'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - forbidden
          headers:
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
        '404':
          description: Not Found.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorNotFound'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - not_found
          headers:
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
        '413':
          description: Payload Too Large.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorPayloadTooLarge'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - payload_too_large
          headers:
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
        '415':
          description: Unsupported Media Type.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorUnsupportedMediaType'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - unsupported_media_type
          headers:
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
        '429':
          headers:
            Retry-After:
              description: When to retry, as delay seconds or an HTTP date.
              schema:
                type: string
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
          description: Too Many Requests.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorRateLimitExceeded'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - rate_limit_exceeded
        '500':
          description: Internal Server Error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorInternalError'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - internal_error
          headers:
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
        '502':
          description: A dependent service returned an invalid response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDependencyFailure'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - bad_gateway
          headers:
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
        '503':
          headers:
            Retry-After:
              description: When to retry, as delay seconds or an HTTP date.
              schema:
                type: string
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
          description: Service Unavailable.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                oneOf:
                  - $ref: >-
                      #/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorManagedAgentsUnavailable
                  - $ref: >-
                      #/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorServiceUnavailable
                discriminator:
                  propertyName: code
                  mapping:
                    managed_agents_unavailable: >-
                      #/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorManagedAgentsUnavailable
                    service_unavailable: >-
                      #/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorServiceUnavailable
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - managed_agents_unavailable
                  - service_unavailable
        '504':
          headers:
            Retry-After:
              description: When to retry, as delay seconds or an HTTP date.
              schema:
                type: string
            recursion-organization-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionOrganizationId'
            recursion-tenant-id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RecursionTenantId'
          description: A dependent service timed out.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDependencyTimeout'
                x-recursion-error-codes:
                  - gateway_timeout
components:
  parameters:
    RecursionTenantId:
      name: x-tenant-id
      in: header
      required: false
      description: >-
        Optional tenant consistency check. When present, it must name the tenant
        bound to the API key, including when x-organization-id is `default`.
      schema:
        type: string
        minLength: 1
    RecursionOrganizationId:
      name: x-organization-id
      in: header
      required: false
      description: >-
        Organization in which to act. Required for a tenant-scoped API key.
        Optional for an organization-scoped key, where it must name that same
        organization. The value may be an organization id or `default`.
      schema:
        type: string
        minLength: 1
  schemas:
    StandaloneStartEvaluationsRequest:
      properties:
        criteria:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/EvaluationCriteriaRequest'
          description: >-
            The criteria every evaluation in this batch checks, in order:
            structured criteria, or (deprecated) a keyed markdown rubric. Omit
            to use the evaluator agent's default criteria.
          x-recursion-omission:
            source: evaluator agent default_rubric
            strategy: derive
        evaluatorAgentId:
          description: Agent whose prompt, model and limits judge each target.
          format: uuid
          type: string
        evaluatorAgentVersionId:
          description: >-
            Optional immutable evaluator version. Omit to use its latest
            version.
          format: uuid
          type: string
          x-recursion-omission:
            source: latest version of evaluatorAgentId
            strategy: derive
        projectId:
          description: >-
            Project billed for evaluator model calls. Omit to use each target
            session's project.
          type: string
          x-recursion-omission:
            source: target session project
            strategy: derive
        targets:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/EvaluationBatchSelectorRequest'
          description: >-
            Explicit target session ids, or newest sessions selected by
            statuses, limit and optional agent_ids. A batch starts at most 20
            targets.
      required:
        - evaluatorAgentId
        - targets
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
    EvaluationBatchStartResult:
      properties:
        evaluationBatchId:
          format: uuid
          type: string
        items:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/EvaluationBatchStartItem'
          type: array
      required:
        - evaluationBatchId
        - items
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorInvalidJson:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - invalid_json
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorInvalidRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - invalid_request
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorUnauthorized:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - unauthorized
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorForbidden:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - forbidden
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorNotFound:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - not_found
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorPayloadTooLarge:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - payload_too_large
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorUnsupportedMediaType:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - unsupported_media_type
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorRateLimitExceeded:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - rate_limit_exceeded
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorInternalError:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - internal_error
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorDependencyFailure:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - bad_gateway
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorManagedAgentsUnavailable:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - managed_agents_unavailable
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorServiceUnavailable:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - service_unavailable
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorDependencyTimeout:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
          enum:
            - gateway_timeout
        message:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          description: Human-readable error message.
        details:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails'
          description: >-
            Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are
            typed; code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
      required:
        - code
        - message
      additionalProperties: false
      description: Standard flat error response.
    EvaluationCriteriaRequest:
      anyOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/EvaluationCriteriaList'
        - type: string
    EvaluationBatchSelectorRequest:
      examples:
        - session_ids:
            - session-id
      oneOf:
        - additionalProperties: false
          properties:
            session_ids:
              description: >-
                Explicit target session ids. Every id must be an eligible
                session visible to the caller or no run is created.
              items:
                minLength: 1
                pattern: >-
                  ^[^\u0009-\u000d\u0020\u0085\u00a0\u1680\u2000-\u200a\u2028\u2029\u202f\u205f\u3000](?:[\s\S]*[^\u0009-\u000d\u0020\u0085\u00a0\u1680\u2000-\u200a\u2028\u2029\u202f\u205f\u3000])?$
                type: string
              maxItems: 20
              minItems: 1
              type: array
              uniqueItems: true
          required:
            - session_ids
          type: object
        - additionalProperties: false
          properties:
            agent_ids:
              description: >-
                Optional target agent ids with status selection, applied before
                the newest-first limit.
              items:
                minLength: 1
                pattern: >-
                  ^[^\u0009-\u000d\u0020\u0085\u00a0\u1680\u2000-\u200a\u2028\u2029\u202f\u205f\u3000](?:[\s\S]*[^\u0009-\u000d\u0020\u0085\u00a0\u1680\u2000-\u200a\u2028\u2029\u202f\u205f\u3000])?$
                type: string
              maxItems: 100
              type: array
              uniqueItems: true
              x-recursion-omission:
                strategy: absent
            limit:
              description: Maximum newest matching sessions selected by statuses.
              maximum: 20
              minimum: 1
              type: integer
            statuses:
              description: >-
                Eligible target statuses. Used with limit to choose the newest
                matching sessions.
              items:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SessionStatus'
              maxItems: 5
              minItems: 1
              type: array
              uniqueItems: true
          required:
            - statuses
            - limit
          type: object
    EvaluationBatchStartItem:
      properties:
        errorCode:
          enum:
            - invalid_request
            - not_found
            - conflict
            - forbidden
            - unavailable
            - rate_limited
            - too_large
            - unprocessable
            - evaluation_start_failed
          type: string
        errorMessage:
          type: string
        evaluationSessionId:
          format: uuid
          type: string
        targetSessionId:
          format: uuid
          type: string
      required:
        - targetSessionId
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
    ManagedAgentsApiErrorDetails:
      type: object
      properties:
        field:
          description: >-
            Request field or header responsible for the error, when one can be
            identified.
          type: string
        issues:
          description: >-
            Boundary-validation failures as path-prefixed human-readable
            messages.
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        requestId:
          description: Request correlation identifier for support and log lookup.
          type: string
        retryable:
          description: >-
            Server advice about failure transience. `true` means transient,
            `false` means non-transient, and absence gives no advice. Automatic
            replay is allowed only when this field is not `false` and the
            operation-specific retry and idempotency contract permits replay.
          type: boolean
      additionalProperties:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/PlatformSafeJsonValue'
      description: >-
        Optional structured error details. Reserved transport fields are typed;
        code-specific fields remain forward compatible.
    EvaluationCriteriaList:
      description: Structured criteria, in order. They render to at most 256 KiB.
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/CriterionConfig'
      maxItems: 200
      minItems: 1
      type: array
    SessionStatus:
      description: Coarse session state shared by Managed Agents and imported RL rollouts.
      enum:
        - active
        - awaiting_human
        - completed
        - failed
        - cancelled
      type: string
    PlatformSafeJsonValue:
      description: >-
        A JSON value whose integer members stay within the exact ECMAScript
        safe-integer range at every nesting level.
      oneOf:
        - type: 'null'
        - type: boolean
        - type: string
        - type: integer
          minimum: -9007199254740991
          maximum: 9007199254740991
        - type: number
          not:
            type: integer
        - type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PlatformSafeJsonValue'
        - additionalProperties:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PlatformSafeJsonValue'
          type: object
    CriterionConfig:
      description: One keyed rubric criterion.
      properties:
        criterion_key:
          description: >-
            Stable key of the criterion: a lowercase slug, unique within the
            rubric. Verdicts and revision feedback cite it, so it keeps
            identifying the criterion when its text is edited.
          maxLength: 64
          minLength: 1
          pattern: ^[a-z][a-z0-9]*(?:[-_][a-z0-9]+)*$
          type: string
        criterion_text:
          description: >-
            What the evaluator checks, as one line. Criteria must be
            independently checkable: 'the CSV has a numeric price column' can be
            verified, 'the data looks good' cannot.
          maxLength: 4096
          minLength: 1
          type: string
        label:
          description: >-
            Short display name of the criterion, as one trimmed line of at most
            80 characters, frozen onto every verdict that scores it. Omit to
            display the key.
          maxLength: 80
          minLength: 1
          type: string
        section:
          description: Heading the criterion is grouped under, as one line. Omit for none.
          maxLength: 4096
          type: string
      required:
        - criterion_key
        - criterion_text
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
  headers:
    RecursionOrganizationId:
      description: Organization id resolved for this request.
      schema:
        type: string
        minLength: 1
    RecursionTenantId:
      description: Tenant id resolved for this request.
      schema:
        type: string
        minLength: 1
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: A Recursion API key, created in the console under API keys.

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