# Fetch Payloads

> Fetch recent release payloads from the OpenShift release controller

- Skill: `openshift-eng/fetch-payloads` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add openshift-eng/fetch-payloads`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/openshift-eng/fetch-payloads/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: openshift-eng (https://skillmd.com/u/openshift-eng)
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/openshift-eng/fetch-payloads

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# Fetch Payloads

This skill fetches recent release payloads from the OpenShift release controller, showing their tag name, acceptance phase, timestamp, blocking job results, and a link to the release details page.

## When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

- Find the latest accepted (or rejected) nightly or CI payloads for a given OCP version
- Check the current state of release payloads for any architecture
- See which blocking jobs failed for rejected payloads
- Get a link to the release controller page for a specific payload

## Implementation Steps

### Step 1: Determine defaults

If the user did not specify an architecture or stream, default to `amd64` and `nightly`. If no version is specified, the script automatically fetches the latest from the Sippy API.

### Step 2: Fetch payloads

```bash
FETCH_PAYLOADS="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/fetch-payloads/fetch_payloads.py"
if [ ! -f "$FETCH_PAYLOADS" ]; then
  FETCH_PAYLOADS=$(find ~/.claude/plugins -type f -path "*/ci/skills/fetch-payloads/fetch_payloads.py" 2>/dev/null | sort | head -1)
fi
if [ -z "$FETCH_PAYLOADS" ] || [ ! -f "$FETCH_PAYLOADS" ]; then echo "ERROR: fetch_payloads.py not found" >&2; exit 2; fi
python3 "$FETCH_PAYLOADS" [architecture] [version] [stream]
```

Examples:

```bash
# Latest amd64 nightly payloads (all defaults, last 5)
python3 "$FETCH_PAYLOADS"

# arm64 4.18 nightly
python3 "$FETCH_PAYLOADS" arm64 4.18 nightly

# Only accepted payloads
python3 "$FETCH_PAYLOADS" amd64 4.18 nightly --phase Accepted

# Show more results
python3 "$FETCH_PAYLOADS" amd64 4.18 nightly --limit 20
```

### Step 3: Present results

The script outputs one block per payload to stdout with job details. Present to the user as-is or summarize.

## Output Format

The script outputs a JSON object to stdout:

```json
{
  "hours_since_last_accepted": 23.5,
  "last_accepted_tag": "4.22.0-0.nightly-2026-02-24-030944",
  "payloads": [ ... ]
}
```

- **`hours_since_last_accepted`**: Hours since the most recent Accepted payload in the stream (from the full unfiltered history), or `null` if none found.
- **`last_accepted_tag`**: Tag name of the most recent Accepted payload, or `null` if none found.
- **`payloads`**: Array of payload objects, each containing tag, phase, release controller URL, and job results (blocking and async jobs with Prow URLs and retry details).

## Error Handling

1. **Unknown architecture**: Exits with error listing valid architectures
2. **CI stream on non-amd64**: Exits with error (CI stream is amd64-only)
3. **Network error**: Prints connection failure to stderr, exits 1
4. **No payloads found**: Prints message to stderr, exits 1