---
title: "POST /projects/{projectId}/criteria/proposals"
method: POST
path: "/projects/{projectId}/criteria/proposals"
---

# POST /projects/{projectId}/criteria/proposals

`POST /projects/{projectId}/criteria/proposals`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.caveman.so/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.caveman.so/api/v1/projects/{projectId}/criteria/proposals`
- Auth: one of:
  - OAuth 2
    - Authorization code: `/api/v1/oauth/authorize`
    - Token URL: `/api/v1/oauth/token` scopes: `eval:write`
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `cave_access`
  - API key in cookie `__Secure-cave_identity.session_token`

POST /api/v1/projects/{projectId}/criteria/proposals on the Caveman Cloud control plane. Requires the eval:write scope. Exposed to autonomous agents as the propose_criterion action of the caveman_evals_write tool (write access). Author versioned datasets, reusable evaluators and workbenches; create strict suites, ingest evidence, and run baselines. Evidence ingest supports dry_run — always dry-run first. Ask Caveman to draft quality criteria again within the drafting allowance, propose a criterion for a person to turn on, and hold the pull request that adds the Caveman check to CI. Track a criterion on a slice of traces in one step: from an agent it lands proposed, and a person turns it on. Queue units for review and label them (an agent's label is recorded as an agent's, never as human gold), and make a dataset from recorded traffic.

## Request body

- object
  - `workload_id` string, uuid, nullable
  - `scope` 'span' | 'trace' | 'task', required
  - `level` 'step' | 'outcome', required
  - `kind` 'assertion' | 'question' | 'output_grader' | 'code', required
  - `statement` string, required
  - `pass_def` string
  - `fail_def` string
  - `na_def` string
  - `selector` object
  - `params` object
  - `code` object
    - `ref` string, required
    - `sha256` string, required
  - `motivating_units` object[]
    - `scope` 'span' | 'trace' | 'task', required
    - `unit_id` string, required
    - `task_key` string, nullable
    - `trace_id` string, nullable
    - `cell_id` string, nullable

## Response `2XX`

Successful response. Exact status depends on synchronous or durable delivery outcome.

## Other responses

- `4XX`: Structured failure. `error.code` is stable; `error.request_id` is echoed in the x-cave-request-id header.
- `5XX`: Structured failure. `error.code` is stable; `error.request_id` is echoed in the x-cave-request-id header.

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