---
title: "Set Agent Operator Trust Dial"
method: PUT
path: "/agent/operators/{operator}/skills/{skill_key}"
tags: ["Agents"]
---

# Set Agent Operator Trust Dial

`PUT /agent/operators/{operator}/skills/{skill_key}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1/agent/operators/{operator}/skills/{skill_key}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Set how far ONE skill may go on its own. THIS GOVERNS UNATTENDED ACTION.

The trust dial is the control that decides whether a finding stays a
finding, becomes an approval a person decides, or is simply DONE. Raising
it is the single most consequential write on this surface, which is why it
takes the `run` grant rather than plain write.

THE DIAL IS A CEILING REQUEST, NOT A SETTING. The effective autonomy is the
minimum of this value, the skill's graph8-managed risk cap and the platform
ceiling, so a skill capped at `PROPOSE` stays at `PROPOSE` no matter what
is sent. Read the response rather than assuming the write took literally.

Read `GET /agent/operators/{operator}/scorecard` first. A dial raised on a
skill that has been wrong is how unattended work becomes unattended damage.

## Path parameters

- `operator` string, required
- `skill_key` string, required: Skill key from `GET /agent/operators/{operator}/skills`.

## Headers

- `Authorization` string, nullable
- `X-Target-Org-Id` string, nullable

## Request body

- OperatorTrustDialRequest: Mirror of `TrustDialUpdate`, with `autonomy` closed to the shipped set.
  - `autonomy` 'OFF' | 'DETECT' | 'PROPOSE' | 'AUTO', required: How far this skill may go on its own. `OFF` - do not run it. `DETECT` - look, and record what it finds. `PROPOSE` - look, and raise an approval task a person decides. `AUTO` - act and log, with no human in the loop. THIS IS A REQUEST, NOT A GUARANTEE: the effective level is the MINIMUM of this dial, the skill's own graph8-managed risk cap and the platform ceiling, so a skill capped at `PROPOSE` stays at `PROPOSE` however this is set. Read the response, and `GET /agent/operators/{operator}/skills`, for what the dial actually resolved to.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ApiResponseOperatorPayload
  - `data` OperatorPayload, required: An open envelope for one operator answer. Open because an operator's health snapshot, scorecard and catalog are per-operator documents whose shape follows what that operator monitors - the revenue operator reports different checks from the deliverability one, and both grow. On an OVERSIGHT surface a dropped field reads as "nothing to worry about" rather than "we did not tell you", which is the failure mode worth designing against.
  - `pagination` PaginationMeta
    - `page` integer, required: Current page number (1-indexed)
    - `limit` integer, required: Items per page
    - `total` integer, required: Total number of items
    - `has_next` boolean, required: Whether there are more pages
    - `next_cursor` string, nullable: Opaque cursor for the next page; null when there are no more items. Pass it back as the `cursor` query param to fetch the following page without computing page numbers.
    - `total_available` integer, nullable: Search endpoints only: how many records really match, when known. Can be larger than `total`, which is capped at the 10,000 results that can be paged. For company search this is a distinct-company estimate. Null when unknown; absent outside search.
    - `total_is_lower_bound` boolean, nullable: Search endpoints only: true when more records match than `total` shows (the result set is larger than the 10,000 results that can be paged). Absent outside search.
    - `notes` string[], nullable: Search endpoints only: plain-language notes about the result, e.g. that more records match than can be paged, or that a reversed `between` range was put in order.

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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