# takeSuggestion

mutation · in the family [Work and notes](/reference/work-and-notes/)

## What it does

Take a suggestion — a scratchpad is created with its drafted plan, ready for your review and approval.

TAKE a suggestion: mints a Scratchpad THROUGH THE LIVE SPINE — origin `suggestion`, parented to YOU, the caption carried, the WHY as the intent, and the drafted plan landed via the setScratchpadPlan validate/mark path VERBATIM (a step that no longer checks out arrives MARKED, never silently repaired; the standing diff preview shows it). The offer law gates the act (every drafted step must be runnable under YOUR OWN capability — AUTHZ/FORBIDDEN naming the steps otherwise; preview ≡ enforcement) and your ≤16 open-scratchpad bound applies. The suggestion flips open→taken stamping takenScratchpadId in the SAME write; a lost race compensates (the fresh scratchpad abandons, reason narrated) and surfaces CONFLICT. A past-expiry open refuses CONFLICT/EXPIRED, lazily expiring on the touch. Returns the born Scratchpad — approve and realize it under your own gates (the hardened-Aldric law). Requires authentication (user sessions) + the record's current revision. Template class.

## What happens

You can only take a suggestion whose plan your own permissions could run. The scratchpad carries the plan exactly as drafted (a step that no longer checks out arrives marked, never silently fixed); nothing real is created until you approve and realize it yourself.

## Careful

Taking closes the offer for everyone — the work then lives on your scratchpad.

## 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:takeSuggestion`

## Arguments

| Name | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `input` | [TakeSuggestionInput](/types/TakeSuggestionInput/) `TakeSuggestionInput!` | 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 ExampleTakeSuggestion($input: TakeSuggestionInput!) {
  takeSuggestion(input: $input) {
    id
    sysId
    type
    caption
    status
    parentId
    rootId
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    revisionNum
    revision
    origin
    intent
    planRevision
    approvedPlanRevision
    inFlightSeq
    realizationFault
  }
}
```

Variables:

```json
{
  "input": {
    "id": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-37386ae00000",
    "revision": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-b7960e180000",
    "reason": "Correcting a miscount."
  }
}
```

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

## Example response

```json
{
  "data": {
    "takeSuggestion": {
      "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/))
- `NOT_FOUND/*` — That record could not be found. ([NOT_FOUND](/errors/NOT_FOUND/))
- `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/))

## Used in

- [Act on the desk’s suggestions](/use-cases/act-on-suggestions/)