# accountant.comments.decide

Accept the company's submitted answer/evidence to your own question (decision accept), or reopen it to request further review (decision reopen), with id, expectedRevision and idempotencyKey. In Ask AI, the author must review the answer, open any supporting originals and use the native question review from accountant.comments.list with show:true; a model tool cannot accept it. Reopening remains available through Ask AI. Accepting closes the question; it never changes accounting records or files a return.

`POST /api/v1/accounting/accountant.comments.decide`

Permissions: `accounting:read`, `accounting:write` · Roles:  · Idempotency key required · Send `expectedRevision`

MCP tool: `accounting_accountant_comments_decide`

## Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string (ID) | Yes | The record's ID. |
| `decision` | enum | Yes | What you decided. One of: `accept`, `reopen`. |
| `expectedRevision` | integer | Yes | The record's current revision, from the last time you read it. If someone changed the record since, the request is refused with a conflict so you can reload and check before trying again. at most 9007199254740991; greater than 0. |
| `idempotencyKey` | string | Yes | Any unique text you generate once per intended change, so a retried request only happens once. Send it as the Idempotency-Key header instead if you prefer; if you send both they must match. 8–200 characters. |

## Example request

```bash
curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/accountant.comments.decide \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
  "decision": "accept",
  "expectedRevision": 3
}'
```

Reference page: https://app.getoatmilk.com/docs/api/accountant.comments.decide