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name: aeoforge-authority
description: Authority and machine-access entry stub. Bootstrap, follow next_task, and fetch the authed authority_baseline, authority_distribution, or machine_access task pack.
---

# AEOForge Authority Skill

Use this stub for authority or machine-access work with an account API key (`aeo_sk_`) or workspace handoff token (`aeo_ho_`). Proprietary workflows live in **authenticated task packs**, not this public file.

**API base:** every `/api/…` path in this file lives on `https://aeoforged.com` (so `GET /api/v1/onboard` means `GET https://aeoforged.com/api/v1/onboard`). Never send these to `localhost`, a dev server, a preview deploy, or the client's own domain, and never look for them in the repo you have open — a client project has its own `/api/` routes that have nothing to do with AEOForge.

## Work

Bootstrap, then follow **`next_task`**:

- Account key: `GET /api/v1/onboard?workspace_id={workspace_id}`
- Handoff token: `GET /api/v1/handoff/{token}`

Use the credential as a Bearer token on subsequent calls. If **`next_task`** names a pack, fetch and follow it:

```
GET /api/v1/agent-tasks/{pack_id}?workspace_id={workspace_id}
```

Authority and access pack ids are `authority_baseline`, `authority_distribution`, and `machine_access`. Follow the returned pack's steps, constraints, human gates, and completion rules. If `next_task` is empty, ask the human what they want done. When work changes, re-bootstrap or follow the next returned task.

## Hard rules

- Never promise citations or invent measured results.
- Never bypass a human gate or claim that a human posted or deployed work.
- Never set an action item to `verified`; only the verification endpoint may grant that status.
- Do not invent prices, credentials, workspace ids, or room URLs.

## Wrong skill?

- Signup + free audit (no key yet) → `https://aeoforged.com/skills/aeoforge-free-audit/SKILL.md`
- Fix Programme after payment → `https://aeoforged.com/skills/aeoforge-fix/SKILL.md`
- General ongoing self-serve work → `https://aeoforged.com/skills/aeoforge-selfserve/SKILL.md`