Record Heartbeat

beta.environments.work.heartbeat(work_id, **kwargs) -> BetaSelfHostedWorkHeartbeatResponse

POST/v1/environments/{environment_id}/work/{work_id}/heartbeat

Note: these endpoints are called automatically by the pre-built environment worker provided in the SDKs and CLI, for orchestrating sessions with self-hosted sandbox environments. They are included here as a reference; you do not need to invoke them directly.

Record a heartbeat for a work item to maintain the lease.

Parameters

environment_id: String⁠Path

work_id: String⁠Path

desired_ttl_seconds: Integer⁠Query

Desired TTL in seconds

expected_last_heartbeat: String⁠Query

Expected last_heartbeat for conditional update (optimistic concurrency). Use literal 'NO_HEARTBEAT' to claim an unclaimed lease (first heartbeat). For subsequent heartbeats, echo the server's previous last_heartbeat value exactly. Returns 412 Precondition Failed if the actual value doesn't match.

betas: Array[AnthropicBeta]⁠Header

Optional header to specify the beta version(s) you want to use.

One of the following:

String = String

:"message-batches-2024-09-24"

:"prompt-caching-2024-07-31"

:"computer-use-2024-10-22"

:"computer-use-2025-01-24"

:"pdfs-2024-09-25"

:"token-counting-2024-11-01"

:"token-efficient-tools-2025-02-19"

:"output-128k-2025-02-19"

:"files-api-2025-04-14"

:"mcp-client-2025-04-04"

:"mcp-client-2025-11-20"

:"dev-full-thinking-2025-05-14"

:"interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14"

:"code-execution-2025-05-22"

:"extended-cache-ttl-2025-04-11"

:"context-1m-2025-08-07"

:"context-management-2025-06-27"

:"model-context-window-exceeded-2025-08-26"

:"skills-2025-10-02"

:"fast-mode-2026-02-01"

:"output-300k-2026-03-24"

:"user-profiles-2026-03-24"

:"user-profiles-2026-08-18"

:"user-profiles-2026-09-04"

:"advisor-tool-2026-03-01"

:"managed-agents-2026-04-01"

:"cache-diagnosis-2026-04-07"

:"dreaming-2026-04-21"

:"thinking-token-count-2026-05-13"

:"server-side-fallback-2026-06-01"

:"server-side-fallback-2026-07-01"

:"fallback-credit-2026-06-01"

:"fallback-credit-2026-07-01"

:"agent-memory-2026-07-22"

:"mid-conversation-tool-changes-2026-07-01"

:"compact-2026-01-12"

:"computer-use-2025-11-24"

:"mcp-tunnels-2026-06-22"

:"structured-outputs-2025-11-13"

:"task-budgets-2026-03-13"

:"thinking-display-updates-2026-08-18"

:"ce-user-management-2026-07-13"

:"mid-conversation-output-config-2026-07-01"

:"thinking-binding-controls-2026-08-01"

:"mid-conversation-system-clear-at-2026-08-21"

:"compact-2026-09-04"

:"inline-tools-2026-09-15"

:"mcp-client-2026-09-15"

:"ce-plugins-2026-09-01"

:"spend-limit-reads-2026-09-26"

:"telemetry-destinations-2026-08-11"

Returns

class BetaSelfHostedWorkHeartbeatResponse { type: :work_heartbeat, last_heartbeat, lease_extended, 2 more }

Response after recording a heartbeat for a work item.

type: :work_heartbeat

The type of response

last_heartbeat: String

RFC 3339 timestamp of the actual heartbeat from DB

lease_extended: bool

Whether the heartbeat succeeded in extending the lease

state: :queued | :starting | :active | 2 more

Current state of the work item (active/stopping/stopped)

One of the following:

:queued

:starting

:active

:stopping

:stopped

ttl_seconds: Integer

Effective TTL applied to the lease

Record Heartbeat

require "anthropic"

anthropic = Anthropic::Client.new(api_key: "my-anthropic-api-key")

beta_self_hosted_work_heartbeat_response = anthropic.beta.environments.work.heartbeat("work_id", environment_id: "env_011CZkZ9X2dpNyB7HsEFoRfW")

puts(beta_self_hosted_work_heartbeat_response)

Response 200

{
  "last_heartbeat": "last_heartbeat",
  "lease_extended": true,
  "state": "queued",
  "ttl_seconds": 0,
  "type": "work_heartbeat"
}

Returns Examples

Response 200

{
  "last_heartbeat": "last_heartbeat",
  "lease_extended": true,
  "state": "queued",
  "ttl_seconds": 0,
  "type": "work_heartbeat"
}