API

List instructions

Retrieve all compiled watch instructions stored in Watch.

GET/instructions

Use this endpoint to list every instruction Watch has loaded. Each instruction represents a compiled rule that transactions are evaluated against.

Request

This endpoint has no path, query, or body parameters.

curl http://localhost:8081/instructions

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "HighValueTransaction",
    "text": "rule HighValueTransaction {\n    description \"Review any transaction above $10,000\"\n    when amount > 10000\n    then review\n         score   0.5\n         reason  \"Amount exceeds threshold\"\n}",
    "description": "Review any transaction above $10,000",
    "dsl_json": "{\"name\":\"HighValueTransaction\",\"when\":[...],\"then\":{...}}",
    "created_at": "2026-03-16T10:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-03-16T10:00:00Z"
  }
]

Failed to retrieve instructions

Response

Each item in the array matches the instruction object returned by compile and save instruction.

idinteger

Auto-generated instruction ID.

namestring

Unique rule name.

textstring

Original Watch DSL script text.

descriptionstring

Rule description from the DSL script, if provided.

dsl_jsonstring

Compiled rule JSON used during transaction evaluation.

created_atstring

ISO 8601 timestamp of when the instruction was created.

updated_atstring

ISO 8601 timestamp of when the instruction was last updated.