`proposals.create`

Suggest a change to a record for someone to review. Nothing changes until the suggestion is approved. A newer suggestion for the same record and field replaces the older one. Supply subjectType, subjectId, field, proposedValue, reasoning, optional evidence, and idempotencyKey.

POST/api/v1/accounting/proposals.create

Permissions

accounting:readaccounting:write

Who can call it

admin, finance

Retries

Idempotency key required

MCP

accounting_proposals_create

Fields

subjectTypeenumRequired
The kind of record this is about, such as entry, invoice or mail.
invoiceentrymailpartynotion_linkcontractormerchant
subjectIdstringRequired
The ID of the record this is about.
1–200 characters
fieldenumRequired
statuscategoryclassificationpaymentmappingdetails
proposedValuemapRequired
currentValuemap
reasoningstringRequired
3–2000 characters
evidencearray of objects
at most 20 items
confidenceenum
lowmediumhigh
Default "medium"
freshnessenum
neweroldersameunknown
Default "unknown"
idempotencyKeystringRequired
Any unique text you generate once per intended change, so a retried request only happens once. Send it as the Idempotency-Key header instead if you prefer; if you send both they must match.
8–200 characters

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/proposals.create \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "subjectType": "invoice",
  "subjectId": "example",
  "field": "status",
  "proposedValue": {},
  "reasoning": "example"
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/proposals.create", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "subjectType": "invoice",
    "subjectId": "example",
    "field": "status",
    "proposedValue": {},
    "reasoning": "example"
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/proposals.create",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "subjectType": "invoice",
        "subjectId": "example",
        "field": "status",
        "proposedValue": {},
        "reasoning": "example",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Response

{
  "data": { … }
}

Try it

Checks your input with this action’s real schema and answers like the API, with synthetic data. No key needed, and nothing changes.

Input

POST/api/v1/accounting/proposals.create

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/proposals.create \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "subjectType": "invoice",
  "subjectId": "example",
  "field": "status",
  "proposedValue": {},
  "reasoning": "example"
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/proposals.create", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "subjectType": "invoice",
    "subjectId": "example",
    "field": "status",
    "proposedValue": {},
    "reasoning": "example"
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/proposals.create",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "subjectType": "invoice",
        "subjectId": "example",
        "field": "status",
        "proposedValue": {},
        "reasoning": "example",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Fields

Fields inside evidence

Example

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