---
title: "Read backend-managed agent workflow guidance."
method: GET
path: "/agent-guidance"
tags: ["Discovery"]
---

# Read backend-managed agent workflow guidance.

`GET /agent-guidance`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://docs.sleeperhit.studio/api/v1`
- URL: `https://docs.sleeperhit.studio/api/v1/agent-guidance`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Returns the current admin-editable agent guidance sidecar for Story API, MCP, and CLI clients, structured non-blocking development flow warnings, and MCP server instructions plus tool/resource titles and descriptions. Agents should read this before planning, refining, mutating audio, or finalizing table-read artifacts.

## Response `200`

Backend-managed agent guidance.

- AgentGuidance
  - `version` 1, required
  - `available` boolean, required
  - `promptSystem` 'SidecarPrompt', required
  - `developmentFlow` DevelopmentFlow, required
    - `warnings` object[], required
      - `id` 'series_bible_before_screenplay' | 'project_stage_before_generation' | 'mood_board_before_storyboard_rendering' | 'coverage_round_after_screenplay', required
      - `stage` 'before_screenplay_generation' | 'before_planning_or_generation' | 'before_storyboard_rendering' | 'after_screenplay_exists', required
      - `severity` 'warning', required
      - `blocking` boolean, required
      - `title` string, required
      - `guidance` string, required
      - `recommendedActions` string[], required
      - `surfaces` string[], required
  - `source` object, required
    - `feature` 'B2B_STORY_API', required
    - `name` 'story_api_agent_guidance', required
    - `sidecarId` string, nullable, required
    - `currentVersion` integer, nullable, required
    - `updatedAt` string, date-time, nullable, required
    - `interpolatesSnippets` boolean, required
  - `guidance` object, nullable, required
    - `format` 'markdown', required
    - `content` string, required
  - `mcp` object, required
    - `available` boolean, required
    - `promptSystem` 'SidecarPrompt', required
    - `source` object, required
      - `feature` 'B2B_STORY_API', required
      - `name` 'story_api_mcp_metadata', required
      - `sidecarId` string, nullable, required
      - `currentVersion` integer, nullable, required
      - `updatedAt` string, date-time, nullable, required
      - `interpolatesSnippets` boolean, required
    - `metadata` object, nullable, required
      - `version` 1, required
      - `serverInstructions` string, required
      - `resources` object, required
    - `message` string
  - `message` string

## Other responses

- `401`: Missing, malformed, revoked, or expired API key.
- `403`: API key is valid but lacks the scope, is blocked by IP allowlist, or the account is disabled.
- `429`: Rate limit for this API key + IP + route family was exceeded.
- `500`: The API failed unexpectedly. Safe to retry with the same Idempotency-Key.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/sleeperhit/apis/sleeper-hit-studio-story-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/sleeperhit/apis/sleeper-hit-studio-story-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/sleeperhit/apis/sleeper-hit-studio-story-api/revisions/4534f5d25540?raw)