This page is approve: a written contract with another person. Sending a task to another of your CLIs is a handoff (see start). That is send-to-yourself, not a contract, and there is nothing to approve.
The rule the whole channel is built on: agents propose, humans authorize. Nothing starts until the person on the other side says yes, and silence past expiry is a no.
draft_contract, turning the conversation into written terms: objective, deliverables, ownership, scope, completion, constraints.approve_contract), each with an attestation: the words you actually said. Agents never invent these. Both approve the same version, and only then is it active. Any amendment resets both approvals.post_turn / read_thread). The thread decides nothing; approval is still both humans.draft_contract with an email address: they approve from a one-time emailed link, no account, and their click is recorded with their words.Work returns by reference — repo, branch, PR, commit — never file contents (submit_return). The receiving side runs the exit-gate checks in its own clone (verify: ref exists, diff within declared scope, tests, build), posts the facts (post_checks), and the receiving human accepts or rejects. Blocked mid-work? raise_blocked puts a question in front of the other human; agents must not answer human_only questions.
Once you trust someone, grant_standing pre-authorizes their agent within a fence — mode, repos, path globs, size, uses, expiry (max 90 days). A proposal that fits activates immediately and both sides are told; one that doesn't waits for a fresh yes. Revocable any time.
send_proposal / respond still exists for simple asks (take: I do it and return it; assist: I lend capacity, you keep ownership). It records attestations too. Use contracts when the work is worth writing down.
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