---
title: "Pause accounts affected by a deliverability recommendation"
method: POST
path: "/api/v2/ai-agents/deliverability/feed-items/{id}/pause-affected-accounts"
tags: ["AIDeliverabilityAgent"]
---

# Pause accounts affected by a deliverability recommendation

`POST /api/v2/ai-agents/deliverability/feed-items/{id}/pause-affected-accounts`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.instantly.ai`
- URL: `https://api.instantly.ai/api/v2/ai-agents/deliverability/feed-items/{id}/pause-affected-accounts`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Pause active email accounts currently affected by the default agent's DNS-health or blocklist recommendation. The recommendation is revalidated before account statuses are changed. Calling this endpoint for an already completed feed item is idempotent.


Requires all of the following scope groups:
- One of `ai_agents:update`, `ai_agents:all`, `all:update`, `all:all`
- One of `accounts:update`, `accounts:all`, `all:update`, `all:all`

## Path parameters

- `id` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

Default Response

- object
  - `item` object, required
    - `id` string, uuid, required
    - `organization_id` string, uuid, required
    - `agent_id` string, uuid, required
    - `source_activity_id` string, nullable
    - `feed_code` string, required
    - `kind` 'insight' | 'recommendation' | 'action', required
    - `status` 'todo' | 'done' | 'dismissed' | 'failed', required
    - `severity` 'info' | 'success' | 'warning' | 'critical', required
    - `priority` number, required
    - `subject_type` string, nullable
    - `subject_id` string, nullable
    - `subject_name` string, nullable
    - `payload` object, required
    - `result_payload` object, nullable
    - `action_code` string, nullable
    - `action_status` string, nullable
    - `action_payload` object, nullable
    - `dedupe_key` string, required
    - `timestamp_created` string, date-time, required
    - `timestamp_updated` string, date-time, required
    - `completed_at` string, date-time, nullable
    - `dismissed_at` string, date-time, nullable
    - `expires_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `affected_account_count` number, required
  - `affected_domain_count` number, required
  - `paused_account_count` number, required
  - `paused_provider_counts` object, required
    - `custom_imap_smtp` number, required
    - `google` number, required
    - `microsoft` number, required
    - `airmail` number, required
    - `other` number, required
  - `paused_managed_account_count` number, required
  - `paused_self_managed_account_count` number, required

## Other responses

- `400`: The feed item is not an account recommendation.
- `401`: This request is unauthorized (either the Authorization header is missing or invalid, or the API key has been revoked)
- `402`: This request cannot be fulfilled because the workspace does not have an active paid plan
- `404`: The requested resource was not found
- `409`: The feed item is not pending, its action is not proposed, or the recommendation could not be revalidated.
- `429`: You have exceeded the rate limit. Please check the rate limit docs for more information.

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `c781051105a8`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/instantly/apis/api-explorer/changes/api/v2/ai-agents/deliverability/feed-items/:id/pause-affected-accounts/post.md)

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