# accountant.work.decide

Accept current completed work on your own request, or reopen it with a reason. Requires the exact fresh fingerprint and expectedRevision from work.get; accepting cannot clear failing canonical transaction checks and never edits accounting records. Review the saved/current records in Oatmilk's native work detail first. Schedules an exact review-decision notice to the responsible administrator.

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

Permissions: `accounting:read`, `accounting:write` · Roles:  · Idempotency key required · Send `expectedRevision` · Reaches outside Oatmilk (email or a provider)

MCP tool: `accounting_accountant_work_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. |
| `fingerprint` | string | Yes | SHA-256 hash as 64 lowercase hex characters. |
| `reason` | string |  | A short note saying why, kept in the record's history. at most 2000 characters. |
| `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.work.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,
  "fingerprint": "9f2b5c1d7e3a4b6c8d0e2f4a6b8c0d2e4f6a8b0c2d4e6f8a0b2c4d6e8f0a2b4c"
}'
```

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