What in the stock needs a person — the home dashboard's inventory cards

GET /stock/attention

shortSkus counts the stocked SKUs whose projected (available + incoming + inTransit − backordered, as GET /items/:sku/stock reports it) is below zero: more promised than is on hand and on its way, the platform's reorder signal; short names the five furthest short. counts lists every live location with lastCountedAt, the latest recount adjustment there (a count that matched the shelf included; absent when the location was never counted), never-counted and longest-since first. Read-only.

Access

Requires stock:read or products:read or receiving:read or purchasing:read.

Any one of these scopes is enough.

How scopes come from roles: Scopes and roles. Getting a token: Authentication and app tokens.

AI agent tool

Agents call this as inventory_get_stock_attention (Inventory: Get stock attention), in the stock toolset. It only reads.

Connecting an agent: AI agents.

Example

curl

curl -X GET 'https://inventory.getmanifold.io/stock/attention' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MANIFOLD_TOKEN"

JavaScript (fetch)

const response = await fetch("https://inventory.getmanifold.io/stock/attention", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MANIFOLD_TOKEN}` },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);
const answer = await response.json();

Response · 200 · application/json

{
  "shortSkus": 1,
  "short": [
    {
      "sku": "WIDGET-RED",
      "name": "Widget, red",
      "projected": -4,
      "available": 0,
      "incoming": 0,
      "backordered": 4
    }
  ],
  "counts": [
    {
      "locationId": "loc_01a15b90-35a0-738e-af06-23ef7db9fddc",
      "name": "Quarantine bay"
    },
    {
      "locationId": "loc_019cd06e-3b38-7e92-b496-c92f8184a3aa",
      "name": "Shopfront",
      "lastCountedAt": "2026-03-14T09:45:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "locationId": "loc_019cadd3-8330-7e12-aa44-2cd5f05da74a",
      "name": "Main",
      "lastCountedAt": "2026-10-22T06:30:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

The panel writes this call in other languages. It does not send it: Manifold's APIs do not take calls from a web page on another site, so run the call from your own code or terminal. The whole API as OpenAPI: inventory-manager.openapi.json. Base URL https://inventory.getmanifold.io.

Errors

Every refusal is a status and a JSON body whose _tag names it. A refused call changes nothing.

`401`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`Unauthorized` reason	The token is missing, expired or not one Manifold issued.	Get a fresh token and send the call again.
`TokenAlreadyUsed` tokenId	A single-use app token was already spent.	Mint a new token for this call.

`402`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`SubscriptionRequired` status	The organization's subscription has lapsed, so writes are refused.	An owner settles billing. Reads still work meanwhile.

`403`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`TenantRequired` userId	The token names no organization.	Choose the organization, then get a new token.
`ScopeRequired` required	The token's roles do not grant the scope this call needs.	Ask an owner or admin for a role that grants it.

`409`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`MirroredFromSource` source	This area is fed by your source system until the organization goes live.	Make the change in the source system, or go live first.

`503`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`RequestLogUnavailable` tokenId, reason	The service could not record the request, so it did nothing.	Try again shortly.

How refusals work everywhere: Errors.

Used in

Read the dashboard and tidy it, step 3: What the stock needs