> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.parmanasystems.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # List pending policy changes (maker-checker) > Lists Pending Policy Changes, each alongside a diff view: current (the live content at (policyName, policyVersion) today, or null if that version has never been published) and proposed (the change's own proposedContent). Requires a human-authenticated caller, the same discipline as POST .../pending-changes. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.bundled.yaml get /policies/pending-changes openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Parmana API version: 1.0.0 description: > Parmana is an Execution Trust Infrastructure that ensures there is no gap between what humans decide and what AI systems do. The API enables creation, execution, verification, replay, and auditing of Business Transactions through cryptographically verifiable Execution Trust Records. **Every route requires a caller bearer key**, except the liveness/readiness probes and documentation/verification routes that must be reachable with no credential: GET /health, GET /ready, GET /openapi.yaml, GET /documentation, GET /reference, POST /refusal/verify, POST /audit/verify, GET /keys/{keyId}, and GET /.well-known/jwks.json. Send `Authorization: Bearer ` on every other request. Keys are issued by `scripts/generate-api-key.ts` and configured server-side via `PARMANA_API_KEYS`; only a hash of each key is ever held by the server, verified in constant time. A missing or invalid credential returns 401 before a Business Transaction is even constructed, independent of Policy evaluation and gateway attestation, see `packages/api/src/middleware/caller-auth.ts` and [Authentication](/api-reference/authentication). Local development may set `PARMANA_AUTH_DISABLED=true` to skip this middleware entirely; that flag must never be set in a real deployment. contact: name: Parmana Systems email: founder@parmanasystems.com license: name: Proprietary, source-available for evaluation only, see LICENSE url: https://github.com/pavancharak/AgentLabsBuildathon/blob/main/LICENSE servers: - url: http://localhost:3000 description: Local (packages/api, PORT env var, default 3000) security: - bearerAuth: [] tags: - name: Execution description: >- Executes a Business Transaction through the complete Execution Trust pipeline - name: Transactions description: Business Transaction creation and retrieval - name: Verification description: Deterministic verification of an Execution Trust Record - name: Receipts description: Cryptographically signed Execution Trust Receipts - name: Trust Records description: Execution Trust Record retrieval - name: Replay description: Deterministic replay of a recorded Execution Trust Record - name: Policies description: Policy existence/readability check - name: Policy Governance description: Maker-checker proposal, listing, approval, and rejection of policy changes - name: Refusal Records description: >- Durable, signed evidence that a policy decision rejected a transaction (RFC-0021) - name: Audit description: >- Signed caller-authentication audit events, independently third-party-verifiable - name: System description: Operational endpoints paths: /policies/pending-changes: get: tags: - Policy Governance summary: List pending policy changes (maker-checker) description: > Lists Pending Policy Changes, each alongside a diff view: current (the live content at (policyName, policyVersion) today, or null if that version has never been published) and proposed (the change's own proposedContent). Requires a human-authenticated caller, the same discipline as POST .../pending-changes. operationId: listPendingPolicyChanges parameters: - name: status in: query required: false schema: type: string enum: - PENDING_APPROVAL - APPROVED - REJECTED responses: '200': description: Pending Policy Changes, with diff. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/pending-changes-list-response.schema' examples: oneOpen: summary: Real captured response value: changes: - pendingPolicyChangeId: 6f4e4020-adf5-4449-938d-27aab58f66b7 policyName: openapi-capture-demo policyVersion: 1.0.0 proposedContent: policyId: openapi-capture-demo policyVersion: 1.0.0 schemaVersion: 1.0.0 rules: - id: always-approve condition: always: true outcome: action: approve reason: OpenAPI spec capture fixture proposedBy: human-maker proposedAt: '2026-09-15T03:47:13.920Z' status: PENDING_APPROVAL reason: >- Capture a real Pending Policy Change for the OpenAPI spec diff: current: null proposed: policyId: openapi-capture-demo policyVersion: 1.0.0 schemaVersion: 1.0.0 rules: - id: always-approve condition: always: true outcome: action: approve reason: OpenAPI spec capture fixture '400': description: >- status query param is not one of PENDING_APPROVAL, APPROVED, REJECTED. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/error.schema' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized' '403': description: Caller is not human-credentialed (NON_HUMAN_CALLER_DENIED). content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/error.schema' components: schemas: pending-changes-list-response.schema: title: Pending Changes List Response description: >- Response returned by GET /policies/pending-changes. Each entry is a Pending Policy Change plus a diff view: current (the live content at (policyName, policyVersion) today, or null if that version has never been published) and proposed (the change's own proposedContent). type: object additionalProperties: false required: - changes properties: changes: type: array items: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/pending-policy-change.schema' - type: object required: - diff properties: diff: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - current - proposed properties: current: description: >- The live policy.json content today, or null if this version has never been published. proposed: description: The same value as this entry's own proposedContent. examples: - changes: - pendingPolicyChangeId: 6f4e4020-adf5-4449-938d-27aab58f66b7 policyName: openapi-capture-demo policyVersion: 1.0.0 proposedContent: policyId: openapi-capture-demo policyVersion: 1.0.0 schemaVersion: 1.0.0 rules: - id: always-approve condition: always: true outcome: action: approve reason: OpenAPI spec capture fixture proposedBy: human-maker proposedAt: '2026-09-15T03:47:13.920Z' status: PENDING_APPROVAL reason: Capture a real Pending Policy Change for the OpenAPI spec diff: current: null proposed: policyId: openapi-capture-demo policyVersion: 1.0.0 schemaVersion: 1.0.0 rules: - id: always-approve condition: always: true outcome: action: approve reason: OpenAPI spec capture fixture error.schema: title: Error Response description: >- Shared error envelope produced by packages/api/src/middleware/error-handler.ts and by every route's inline validation checks. error is always a plain human-readable string (never a nested object). code is present only when the failure was a RuntimeError subclass reaching the centralized error handler (VerificationFailedError, ReceiptGenerationError, or an uncategorized RuntimeError); it is absent from every inline route-level check (businessTransactionId format/required checks) and from BusinessTransactionValidationError, PolicyValidationError, SignalValidationError, PolicyNotFoundError, DuplicateBusinessTransactionError, and the generic 500 fallback. POST /policies/validate does NOT use this envelope at all. See its own response schema. For the triggering condition and recommended caller action behind any specific error/code/status combination, see the Error catalog at /api-reference/error-catalog. type: object additionalProperties: false required: - error properties: error: type: string description: Human-readable error message. code: type: string description: >- Stable machine-readable error code. Only present for errors that reach the handler as a RuntimeError. examples: - RUNTIME_ERROR - VERIFICATION_FAILED - RECEIPT_GENERATION_FAILED examples: - error: businessTransactionId must be a valid UUID. - error: >- Business Transaction 'eed2a972-1bf5-4166-8472-761f76fbf1b2' already exists. - error: >- Execution rejected: Vendor payment rejected because the assessed payment risk exceeds the maximum permitted threshold. code: RUNTIME_ERROR pending-policy-change.schema: title: Pending Policy Change description: >- A proposed change to a policy's content, held in a durable pending state until a second, distinct human explicitly approves or rejects it (Policy Governance, maker-checker). Only ever moves from PENDING_APPROVAL to APPROVED or REJECTED, exactly once. type: object additionalProperties: true required: - pendingPolicyChangeId - policyName - policyVersion - proposedContent - proposedBy - proposedAt - status - reason properties: pendingPolicyChangeId: type: string description: Unique Pending Policy Change identifier. policyName: type: string description: >- The policy this proposal targets, same identifier as Policy.policyId. policyVersion: type: string description: >- The existing version this proposal is a change against ("the version being replaced"). Not necessarily equal to proposedContent's own declared version: an in-place patch and a version bump are both legitimate. proposedContent: type: object description: >- The full proposed policy.json content, in its entirety, not a diff or patch. additionalProperties: true proposedBy: type: string description: >- Identity of the proposer (maker). Always a human-authenticated (credentialHolderType USER) caller. proposedAt: type: string format: date-time status: type: string enum: - PENDING_APPROVAL - APPROVED - REJECTED reason: type: string description: Free-text justification from the proposer, required at creation. resolvedBy: type: string description: >- Identity of the resolver (checker). Absent while PENDING_APPROVAL. Never equal to proposedBy. resolvedAt: type: string format: date-time description: Absent while PENDING_APPROVAL. rejectionReason: type: string description: Present only when status is REJECTED. coverageWarnings: type: array description: >- Present only when non-empty: uncovered-fact warnings from PolicyValidator.findUncoveredFacts against proposedContent. items: type: string ruleConflicts: type: array description: >- Present only when non-empty: advisory rule-conflict warnings from PolicyValidator.findRuleConflicts against proposedContent, never blocking. items: type: string examples: - pendingPolicyChangeId: 6f4e4020-adf5-4449-938d-27aab58f66b7 policyName: openapi-capture-demo policyVersion: 1.0.0 proposedContent: policyId: openapi-capture-demo policyVersion: 1.0.0 schemaVersion: 1.0.0 rules: - id: always-approve condition: always: true outcome: action: approve reason: OpenAPI spec capture fixture proposedBy: human-maker proposedAt: '2026-09-15T03:47:13.920Z' status: APPROVED reason: Capture a real Pending Policy Change for the OpenAPI spec resolvedBy: human-checker resolvedAt: '2026-09-15T03:48:03.586Z' responses: Unauthorized: description: >- Missing or invalid caller credential (StaticKeyAuthenticator returned no identity). Real captured response, packages/api/src/middleware/caller-auth.ts. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/error.schema' examples: authRequired: summary: Real captured response, missing or invalid Authorization header value: error: authentication required securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: > Caller API key issued by scripts/generate-api-key.ts. Sent as Authorization: Bearer . Verified against a stored SHA-256 hash in constant time by packages/api/src/auth/StaticKeyAuthenticator.ts. Required on every route not listed as exempt in this document's top-level description. See /api-reference/authentication. ````