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# Read the server's clock

> The server's clock, for a player lining its timestamps up with the device's. `receivedAt` is when the request reached the handler and `sentAt` is when the answer left it, both ISO-8601 with milliseconds. With your own send and receive times that gives the usual four-timestamp offset estimate. Any credential may call it; responses are `no-store`.

Hosted deployments only. A local checkout does not mount this route, so calling it there is a 404.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api/openapi.json get /v1/time
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Phonebase HTTP API
  version: 0.1.0
  summary: >-
    Every HTTP operation the control plane mounts, generated from the app's own
    route table.
  description: >-
    The control plane exposes two HTTP surfaces, and reading the boundary
    between them matters more than reading any single endpoint.


    The CONTROL surface is what your backend and your operators call. It takes a
    bearer token in the `Authorization` header, and two credential channels
    resolve to the same authorization context: an OAuth 2.1 access token for
    interactive clients, or an org scoped API key for headless ones.


    The DEVICE surface, under `/vrx/{runToken}/v1`, is what a worker calls while
    executing one run. Its credential is the run token in the url path, and it
    reads no `Authorization` header at all.


    Device control itself is not REST. An agent taps, swipes and reads the
    screen over the Model Context Protocol at `POST /mcp`, one tool call at a
    time. There is no `POST /v1/devices/{id}/tap`, and if you are looking for
    one, start with the tool reference instead.


    Operations marked `"x-phonebase-modes": ["hosted"]` exist only on a hosted
    deployment; a local checkout does not mount them.
servers:
  - url: '{origin}'
    description: Your control plane origin.
    variables:
      origin:
        default: https://mcp.phonebase.co
        enum:
          - https://mcp.phonebase.co
          - http://127.0.0.1:8788
        description: >-
          The hosted deployment serves the public origin its metadata document
          advertises, and that is the default here. Select the loopback entry
          instead when you are running a local checkout, which serves the port
          `PORT` names.
security: []
tags:
  - name: Apps
    description: Save immutable application builds and manage explicit device operations.
  - name: Managed Proxy
    description: >-
      Organization-owned fixed egress resources, independent one-time orders and
      verified network relationships.
  - name: Health
    description: Liveness, unauthenticated.
  - name: Gateway enrollment
    description: >-
      How a new gateway computer trades a one-time enrollment code for its
      tunnel credential. Unauthenticated: the code is the credential.
  - name: Gateway releases
    description: >-
      What a gateway computer installs: the current edge release of a channel.
      Called with the gateway's own credential.
  - name: MCP
    description: The JSON-RPC endpoint an agent drives devices through.
  - name: Copilot
    description: >-
      Drive a device by chatting. A signed in person's own conversations,
      streamed. Hosted deployments only.
  - name: Discovery
    description: Where to authenticate. Served on hosted deployments only.
  - name: Runs
    description: Start, watch and steer a run.
  - name: API keys
    description: Mint and revoke headless credentials. Hosted deployments only.
  - name: Device surface
    description: What a worker calls with its run token to observe and act.
  - name: Usage
    description: Read your org's own receipts and consumption. Hosted deployments only.
  - name: Devices
    description: Read the fleet your credential can see. Hosted deployments only.
  - name: Notifications
    description: >-
      What a person needs to know when they are not watching, and which emails
      they receive. Hosted deployments only.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: >-
      Subscribe your own system to what happens here, and read what was
      delivered. Hosted deployments only.
  - name: Provisioning
    description: >-
      Whether an organisation is provisioned, and how it becomes so. Hosted
      deployments only, and both operations answer a declared 503 on a
      deployment that cannot provision yet.
paths:
  /v1/time:
    get:
      tags:
        - Devices
      summary: Read the server's clock
      description: >-
        The server's clock, for a player lining its timestamps up with the
        device's. `receivedAt` is when the request reached the handler and
        `sentAt` is when the answer left it, both ISO-8601 with milliseconds.
        With your own send and receive times that gives the usual four-timestamp
        offset estimate. Any credential may call it; responses are `no-store`.


        Hosted deployments only. A local checkout does not mount this route, so
        calling it there is a 404.
      operationId: getV1Time
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The server's clock.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  receivedAt:
                    type: string
                    format: date-time
                    description: When the request reached the handler.
                  sentAt:
                    type: string
                    format: date-time
                    description: When the answer was produced.
                required:
                  - receivedAt
                  - sentAt
                additionalProperties: false
        '401':
          description: No credential, or one that was refused.
          headers:
            WWW-Authenticate:
              description: >-
                A bearer challenge. On a hosted deployment it names the metadata
                document to discover the authorization server from, and it adds
                `error="invalid_token"` when a credential was presented and
                rejected.
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedError'
        '429':
          description: >-
            Over the request budget for this caller. Hosted deployments only.
            Which budget applied depends on whether this request carried an
            `Authorization` header, not on which endpoint it was aimed at. Wait
            `Retry-After` seconds and retry the same request: the refusal
            happens before any work, so nothing was partially applied. See
            /api/rate-limits.
          headers:
            Retry-After:
              description: >-
                Whole seconds until one request is available again. Computed
                from the caller's own remaining allowance, not a fixed constant.
              schema:
                type: string
            RateLimit-Limit:
              description: >-
                The budget in effect for this caller class, in requests per
                minute.
              schema:
                type: string
            RateLimit-Remaining:
              description: >-
                Whole requests that were still available when this request was
                admitted. Zero on a 429.
              schema:
                type: string
            RateLimit-Reset:
              description: >-
                Seconds until the allowance is back to full. Longer than
                `Retry-After`, which is the wait for a single request.
              schema:
                type: string
            RateLimit-Policy:
              description: The budget and its window, as `<limit>;w=60`.
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimitedError'
        '503':
          description: >-
            The authentication backend could not be reached. The service fails
            closed: an infrastructure fault is refused, never waved through.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      security:
        - bearerAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    UnauthorizedError:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              const: unauthorized
              description: Always `unauthorized` on this response.
            reason:
              type: string
              enum:
                - missing_credentials
                - malformed_credentials
                - invalid_token
                - token_expired
                - wrong_audience
                - missing_org
                - missing_org_role
                - unknown_key
                - revoked_key
                - expired_key
              description: The closed set of ways authentication can fail.
            hint:
              type: string
              description: >-
                A next step in prose, on the reasons where there is one to give:
                `revoked_key`, `expired_key`, `missing_org_role`, and
                `invalid_token` when the account is not a member of the named
                organization. Absent otherwise, so branch on `reason` and show
                this if it is there.
          required:
            - code
            - reason
          additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - error
      additionalProperties: false
      description: >-
        A refused credential. `unknown_key` covers both a keyId nobody has and a
        secret that does not match, because telling those apart would enumerate
        keys for you. Revocation and expiry are distinguishable, since you owned
        that key.
    RateLimitedError:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              const: rate_limited
              description: Always `rate_limited` on this response.
            message:
              type: string
              description: >-
                A human readable summary. The numbers are in the headers, not in
                here.
          required:
            - code
            - message
          additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - error
      additionalProperties: false
      description: >-
        Over the request budget. Raised by the rate limiter before any handler
        runs, which is why its code is not one of the action codes: nothing was
        attempted, so no action failed.
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              enum:
                - backend_resolution_failed
                - backend_not_implemented
                - device_unavailable
                - device_disconnected
                - lease_mismatch
                - lease_required
                - capability_unsupported
                - invalid_argument
                - backend_command_failed
                - idempotency_conflict
                - action_outcome_unknown
                - stale_frame
                - internal_error
                - unauthorized
                - permission_denied
                - run_not_found
                - frame_not_found
                - device_busy
                - admission_unavailable
                - checkout_unavailable
                - checkout_customer_balance
                - checkout_in_progress
                - quote_changed
                - payment_in_progress
                - out_of_stock
                - wrong_state
                - instance_not_served
                - reverification_required
                - not_found
                - receipt_not_found
                - rate_limited
                - payload_too_large
                - origin_not_allowed
                - api_key_from_browser_origin
                - key_predates_instance_attribution
                - org_not_served_by_instance
                - tenant_binding_unavailable
                - tenant_binding_unsettled
                - fleet_at_capacity
                - forbidden
                - service_unavailable
                - invalid_signature
                - invalid_event
                - not_settled
              description: >-
                The closed set of codes this service answers with on purpose, on
                MCP tools and REST alike (D152). What each one means and when
                you get it is on the errors page.
            message:
              type: string
              description: A human readable summary. Do not branch on it, branch on `code`.
            retryable:
              type: boolean
              description: >-
                Whether re-issuing the same call unchanged is meaningful. It is
                a property of the occurrence, not of the code, so read the field
                rather than inferring it.
          required:
            - code
            - message
          additionalProperties: true
          description: >-
            Specific errors add their own fields, such as `deviceId`, `reason`
            or `capability`. Read the ones you branch on and ignore the rest.
      required:
        - error
      additionalProperties: false
      description: >-
        The control surface error envelope. Every non 2xx JSON body on this
        surface has this shape.
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        The control surface credential. Send `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.


        Two kinds of token are accepted and they are told apart by shape, not by
        a separate header. A token beginning `pbk_` is an org scoped API key,
        whose public half and secret half are generated together and of which
        only a hash of the secret is ever stored; anything else is treated as an
        OAuth 2.1 access token and verified against the authorization server's
        keys.


        Both resolve to the same context: an org, a principal and a set of
        scopes. Nothing downstream branches on which channel you used, with one
        deliberate exception, key management, which requires a signed-in person
        so that a key can never mint another key.


        Scopes are enforced when MCP tools are REGISTERED rather than when they
        are called, so a tool your credential cannot use is absent from
        `tools/list` rather than refused mid gesture.

````

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