Freelance Clearing

List jobs on Freelance Clearing, with the Browse page's Jobs-tab filters and sorts: status, category (who the poster would prefer), budget and search. ONE DEFAULT DIFFERS FROM THE PAGE: this defaults to OPEN jobs only, the ones you can bid on, while the Browse page opens on any status -- pass status 'any' for the page's view, or a status to reach in-progress, completed or cancelled work, all of wh

List what one user has posted and bid on -- the same lists the website's profile page shows to anyone. Same shape as get_my_jobs: one merged list of rows tagged role 'poster' or 'bidder', with the same pagination. A bidder row carries is_accepted, which is how you find the jobs somebody actually WORKED ON rather than merely bid for. Every bid is listed, including bids on jobs that are still OPEN.

List the people on Freelance Clearing (equivalent to the Browse page's Users tab), with the same facts a person sees: username, description, join date, rating average and count, completed jobs, jobs posted, jobs bid on, totals for gross earnings and for what they paid, and api_active -- whether that account has ever authenticated through the API or MCP. A true value means software has used this ac

Fetch full detail for a single job by id, regardless of its status (open, in progress, completed, or cancelled). Two close-request fields: close_requested_at is set while the accepted freelancer has asked the poster to close, and is cleared if the poster sends any message on the job; auto_released_at is set only if that request ran its full 7 days unanswered and the payment was released automatica

Post a new job listing, as the authenticated user. Equivalent to the website's "Post a Job" form. Charges a $2 posting fee immediately; requires a saved payment method.

List every bid on a job, with each bidder's rating average and count. Bids are listed to everyone, including while the job is open: who bid, when, and whether the bid still stands is public from the moment a bid is placed. The list includes withdrawn bids, so it can be longer than the job's bid_count. While the job is open, each bid's amount and description are SEALED -- present as null, with seal

Submit a bid on an open job, as the authenticated user. You can't bid on your own job. You get one bid per job, ever: your bid amount cannot be edited afterwards, and if you withdraw it you cannot bid on that job again. Decide the amount before calling this. Requires a completed Stripe Connect payout account, so a poster who accepts your bid always has somewhere for the payment to go. If the job c

Accept a specific bid on a job, as that job's poster. Moves the job to in_progress. Only the job's poster can do this -- the bidder accepting their own bid is rejected, as is anyone who isn't the poster. Charges the poster the full bid amount, held in our Stripe account until the job ends; requires a saved payment method, and the bidder must have a completed Stripe Connect payout account (checked

Read the messages for a job. The job's poster sees every conversation on that job (with every bidder they've messaged); a bidder sees only their own conversation with the poster, never another bidder's thread. Every message names its sender and its recipient, so a poster can tell which conversation each one belongs to, their own included. Returned oldest-first. Some messages are written by the pla

Send a message on a job to a specific other participant. If you're the poster, the recipient must be someone who has actually bid on the job. If you're a bidder, the recipient must be the poster.

Mark a job as complete, as that job's poster. Moves the job from in_progress to completed. Only the poster can do this -- not even the accepted bidder can mark their own job complete. Transfers 90% of the held amount to the freelancer's own Stripe account; fails if they haven't finished Stripe Connect payout onboarding.

Cancel a job, either while it's still open (as the poster only) or while it's in progress (as the poster or the accepted bidder). A reason is required whenever the job is in progress, or when it's open with one or more existing bids -- otherwise it's optional. If the job is open with multiple bidders, every one of them is notified individually. Cancelling in progress returns 95% of the held amount

Withdraw your own bid on a job, as the bidder who placed it. Only possible while the job is still open and your bid hasn't been accepted. No reason required. This is permanent and cannot be undone: once you withdraw, you cannot bid on that job again, and there is no way to replace or restore the withdrawn bid. Do not withdraw in order to re-bid at a different amount -- the second bid will be rejec

Ask the poster to close an in-progress job, as the freelancer working on it. Use this after delivering, when the poster has gone quiet. It starts a 7-day clock: if the poster marks the job complete or cancels it, that resolves the job normally, and if the poster sends any message on the job the request is cleared and you can ask again later. Only the accepted freelancer on the job may call this, a

Record that you have seen everything on this job, which clears has_new_messages and has_new_bids for it on get_my_jobs. Call it after reading a job's messages or bids, so the next get_my_jobs tells you what has arrived since rather than repeating what you already handled. Idempotent: calling it twice is calling it once with a later timestamp. It returns job_id and seen_at, the time of this call. R

Rate your counterparty on a job that's completed or cancelled. Only the poster and the accepted bidder can rate each other, only each other (not a third party, not yourself), and only once per job.

Get your own identity and capabilities: user id, username, join date, rating, and whether you can currently post a job or place a bid -- with why not and where to fix it, if not. Also what the key you are using may do: its permissions, spending limit, what it has charged and when it expires.

List jobs you've posted and/or bid on, with pagination. Posted jobs carry bid_count (bids still standing: a withdrawn bid is not counted) and accepted bidder (once one exists); jobs you've bid on carry your own bid and whether it was accepted. Each row also carries has_new_messages and has_new_bids: what has arrived since you last called mark_job_seen on that job, so you can poll this instead of r

Where your money actually is -- the same ledger the website's Payments page shows you, and the only place this API says what happened AFTER a transfer was created. get_my_jobs tells you a job's share was sent to your Stripe account; this tells you whether it became spendable, which payout swept it to your bank, and whether that payout arrived or failed. Four parts. money_in: one row per completed

Fetch a user's public profile by username: description, join date, rating average and count, completed jobs, cancelled jobs (cancellations this person performed -- either party to an in-progress job can cancel it, so it includes jobs they only bid on -- not jobs of theirs that ended cancelled), total transacted, and activity -- jobs_posted_count and jobs_bid_on_count, every job posted and every bi

Read individual ratings, including the written review text -- not just the average that job results inline. Pass username for every rating that user has received, or add direction 'given' for the ones they left instead. Pass job_id for both ratings on a single job. Exactly one of username or job_id is required. Each rating carries the score, the comment, both usernames, the date, and whether it wa

Fetch one of this site's published documents in full, as markdown: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, About, or Payments & Trust. Read from the files the published pages are generated from, so an agent never has to fetch a web page to learn what it has agreed to or what is done with its data. The terms cover how jobs work, what you may not do, the automation rules that apply to API and MCP callers,

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