# Create approvals

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/patent/post-patent-approvals

> Appends one person's decision about one disclosure.

`POST /v1/patent/approvals`

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|               |                                            |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/patent/approvals` |
| **Method**    | `POST`                                     |
| **Operation** | `post_patent_approvals`                    |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`     |

Appends one person's decision about one disclosure. The
approver is the validated principal and nothing else, so no caller records a
sign-off on someone else's behalf — which is the only way this field would be
worth reading.

## Request

13 fields, body `application/json` (required).

| Field                       | In   | Type                     | Required | Description                                                                              |
| --------------------------- | ---- | ------------------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `approvals`                 | body | patent.PatentApproval\[] | —        | Approvals are the decisions to append, at most 2000.                                     |
| `approvals[].authored_by`   | body | string                   | —        | AuthoredBy is the validated principal who decided.                                       |
| `approvals[].canonical`     | body | boolean                  | —        | Canonical is DERIVED on read: this author's latest word on this disclosure.              |
| `approvals[].comment`       | body | string                   | —        | Comment is the reviewer's note — the part an inventor reads.                             |
| `approvals[].content_hash`  | body | string                   | —        | ContentHash is the server's digest of the recorded content.                              |
| `approvals[].decision`      | body | string                   | —        | Decision is approved, rejected or needs-work.                                            |
| `approvals[].disclosure_id` | body | string                   | —        | DisclosureID is the document this decides on.                                            |
| `approvals[].id`            | body | string                   | —        | ID is the server's handle for this decision, derived from the disclosure and its author. |
| `approvals[].project`       | body | string                   | —        | Project is the SERVER's scope value.                                                     |
| `approvals[].recorded_at`   | body | string                   | —        | RecordedAt is the server's clock.                                                        |
| `approvals[].revision`      | body | string                   | —        | Revision is original, corrected or retracted.                                            |
| `approvals[].role`          | body | string                   | —        | Role is the capacity the person acted in: author, cto, reviewer, attorney or counsel.    |
| `approvals[].seq`           | body | integer (int64)          | —        | Seq is the append order.                                                                 |

## Response

| Status    | Body                  | Meaning |
| --------- | --------------------- | ------- |
| `200`     | patent.patentWriteOut | ok      |
| `default` | problem-details       | refused |

`200` body — 3 fields.

| Field       | In   | Type            | Always | Description                                                               |
| ----------- | ---- | --------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `canonical` | body | integer (int64) | —      | Canonical is how many entries the org's log now holds for this kind.      |
| `project`   | body | string          | —      | Project is the scope the batch was filed under, as the server decided it. |
| `recorded`  | body | integer (int64) | —      | Recorded is how many new versions this call appended.                     |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo patent approvals create
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, PatentApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new PatentApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.postPatentApprovals({ approvals: [{"authored_by":"<authored_by>","canonical":false,"comment":"<comment>","content_hash":"<content_hash>"}] });
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import PatentApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = PatentApi(client).post_patent_approvals(approvals=[{"authored_by":"<authored_by>","canonical":false,"comment":"<comment>","content_hash":"<content_hash>"}])
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.PatentAPI.PostPatentApprovals(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, patent_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = patent_api::post_patent_approvals(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.PatentApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new PatentApi(client).postPatentApprovals();
```

The method above is the one at the current release of the document. `hanzoai@8.5.914` (npm) and `hanzoai@8.5.914` (PyPI) were generated from an earlier release, where this operation carried a different id, so it spells the method differently — regenerating the clients is what makes the two agree. [SDKs →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/sdks)

**HTTP**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/patent/approvals \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "approvals": [
         {
           "authored_by": "<authored_by>",
           "canonical": false,
           "comment": "<comment>",
           "content_hash": "<content_hash>"
         }
       ]
     }'
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **patent** through the `patent` tool, which names its 12 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_patent_approvals"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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