# createScratchpad

mutation · in the family [Scratchpad](/reference/scratchpad/)

## What it does

Create a new scratchpad — a plan of records to create, reviewed and approved before anything is born at your organization.

Create a Scratchpad in the caller's org group. Template class (universal staff work — the Task row's class; hand-derived v66).

## Who may call it

Capability area: **Work and notes** — Tasks, notes, messages, dashboards and the everyday tools every staff member keeps.

- Owner
- System Administrator
- Manager
- Associate Manager
- Warehouse Associate
- Sales Associate
- Cashier
- An API key whose scope allows `api:createScratchpad`

## Arguments

| Name | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `input` | [NewScratchpadInput](/types/NewScratchpadInput/) `NewScratchpadInput!` | yes | No further notes. |

## Returns

[Scratchpad](/types/Scratchpad/) `Scratchpad!` — A Scratchpad: collects intent (free text now; wizard answers/imports/suggestions/consultations mint through their own entrances later) until it holds a PLAN — ordered {operation, input} steps in wire vocabulary (≤24; creates-only v1: each operation must be a live create-class registry mutation) — and, once a human approves, REALIZES the plan into born constructs through the ordinary ops under the realizing caller's OWN session and capability (the hardened-Aldric law: the spine holds ZERO special authority; AI is just one plan author, and the spine never knows the difference). USER-parented (the collector owns the walk), group-rooted. Invalid steps are MARKED, never repaired; a marked plan can be ready for human eyes but can never be approved. Approval PINS the plan revision (the approved plan IS the executed plan); realization is idempotent + convergent-resume (the realized-id stamps are the idempotency keys) and every step's born cause narrates the scratchpad. The ops event domain (at.ops.scratchpad.\*).

## Example request

```graphql
mutation ExampleCreateScratchpad($input: NewScratchpadInput!) {
  createScratchpad(input: $input) {
    id
    sysId
    type
    caption
    status
    parentId
    rootId
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    revisionNum
    revision
    origin
    intent
    planRevision
    approvedPlanRevision
    inFlightSeq
    realizationFault
  }
}
```

Variables:

```json
{
  "input": {
    "caption": "Blue jeans"
  }
}
```

Send it with the envelope naming the version: `"extensions": {"at": {"version": {"name":"genesis","number":0}}}`.

## Example response

```json
{
  "data": {
    "createScratchpad": {
      "id": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-37386ae00000",
      "sysId": "SD-EXMP-0000-000F",
      "type": "Scratchpad",
      "caption": "Blue jeans",
      "status": "draft",
      "parentId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-065235280000",
      "rootId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-a093dd800000",
      "createdAt": "2027-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": "2027-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "revisionNum": 1,
      "revision": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-b7960e180000",
      "origin": "<origin>",
      "intent": "<intent>",
      "planRevision": 1,
      "approvedPlanRevision": 1,
      "inFlightSeq": 1,
      "realizationFault": "<realization fault>"
    }
  },
  "extensions": {
    "at": {
      "callId": "01EXAMPLE-CALL-ID",
      "version": {
        "requested": {
          "name": "genesis",
          "number": 0
        },
        "serviced": {
          "name": "genesis",
          "number": 0
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Errors this call can answer

- `VALIDATION/INVALID` — Something in the request is not valid. ([VALIDATION](/errors/VALIDATION/))
- `AUTHN/REQUIRED` — Sign in to do this. ([AUTHN](/errors/AUTHN/))
- `AUTHZ/FORBIDDEN` — Your role does not allow this action. ([AUTHZ](/errors/AUTHZ/))
- `RATE_LIMIT/THROTTLED` — Too many requests in a short time. ([RATE_LIMIT](/errors/RATE_LIMIT/))
- `CONFLICT/*` — The record’s state, or a change made in the meantime, does not allow this; the codes are on the CONFLICT page. ([CONFLICT](/errors/CONFLICT/))
- `VALIDATION/VERSION_REQUIRED` — The request did not say which app version it came from. ([VALIDATION](/errors/VALIDATION/))

## Dry run

Add `dryRun: true` to the request envelope (`extensions.at`) to rehearse this call: every check runs, the write is rehearsed against the current records and nothing is stored; the answer is the refusal a real call would give, or the record it would create. Every response to a rehearsal carries `dryRun: true`, so a rehearsed record is never mistaken for a saved one.

## Used in

- [Plan a batch of records before creating them](/use-cases/plan-a-batch/)