--- title: "advice_without_adopt" url: https://services.dev/docs/reference/check/advice_without_adopt --- # advice_without_adopt URL: https://services.dev/docs/reference/check/advice_without_adopt > The rules reserve an advice class for the Service, and its talk names no role from a Pool that holds the row's credential to adopt held answers. | Fix | Fails in | Exit | |---|---|---| | Set talk: \{ adopt: `''` \} to a role from a Pool whose credential meets the advice row, or turn talk off with talk: false. | `services/translation.ts` | 1 | **Owned by** [Talk](https://services.dev/docs/service/talk.md): the page that explains what this gate holds. ## What check says ```txt title="npx services.dev check" ✗ The rules reserve an advice class for the Service, and its talk names no role from a Pool that holds the row's credential to adopt held answers. Set talk: { adopt: '' } to a role from a Pool whose credential meets the advice row, or turn talk off with talk: false. rules 2026-10 reserve advise as advice, and talk names no role to adopt it. https://services.dev/docs/reference/check/advice_without_adopt ✗ 1 to fix ``` ## The failing file ```ts title="services/translation.ts" import { Service } from 'services.dev' import { translators } from '../pools/translators.ts' import rules from '../rules.ts' export default Service({ name: 'Translation', input: { document: 'file', to: 'language: a BCP 47 tag, such as fr-CA' }, output: { document: 'file' }, rules, roles: { translator: { pool: translators } }, deliver: { translate: 'ai', harden: { review: 'adversarial', lenses: ['meaning', 'terms'] }, sign: { by: 'translator', stamp: true }, }, price: 89, }) ``` ## The fix ```diff title="git add -A && git diff --staged" diff --git a/services/translation.ts b/services/translation.ts index e68b75e..64b7c95 100644 --- a/services/translation.ts +++ b/services/translation.ts @@ -13,5 +13,6 @@ export default Service({ harden: { review: 'adversarial', lenses: ['meaning', 'terms'] }, sign: { by: 'translator', stamp: true }, }, + talk: { adopt: 'translator' }, price: 89, }) ``` ```txt title="npx services.dev check" ✓ ready to sell · 1 Service · it keeps at least 80% of every job ``` ## The rest of the brand ```ts title="rules.ts" import { Rules } from 'services.dev' export default Rules({ version: '2026-10', services: { translation: { sign: { reserved: 'sworn translator', where: '*', position: 'A sworn translator signs a translation filed with a registry.' }, advise: { reserved: 'sworn translator', where: '*', kind: 'advice', position: 'Whether a registry will take a translation is advice.' }, }, }, }) ``` ```ts title="pools/translators.ts" import { Pool } from 'services.dev' export const translators = Pool({ name: 'translators', roles: { translator: { credential: 'sworn translator' } }, join: { name: 'text', languages: 'language[]' }, verify: 'https://verify.example.test/translators', fill: ['raise 10% 2h', 'widen 4h'], }) ``` ## In the legal example How the legal example passes this gate, in lines read from its files. ```ts title="examples/legal/rules.ts" 'contract-review': { advise: { reserved: 'bar admission', where: 'client', regions: ['US-CA', 'US-NY', 'US-TX'], kind: 'advice', rail: 'member', position: 'Advice on a contract is legal advice in the client\'s state.' }, ``` ```ts title="examples/legal/pools/attorneys.ts" roles: { attorney: { credential: 'bar admission' }, ``` ```ts title="examples/legal/services/contract-review.ts" roles: { attorney: { pool: attorneys, pay: 50 } }, talk: { adopt: 'attorney' }, ``` Read them in context: [The rules table](https://services.dev/docs/examples/legal/rules.md), [The attorneys' Pool](https://services.dev/docs/examples/legal/pool.md), [Contract review](https://services.dev/docs/examples/legal/contract-review.md). ## Explained in - [Talk](https://services.dev/docs/service/talk.md) ## What an agent reads ```json title="npx services.dev check --json · the advice_without_adopt failure" { "code": "advice_without_adopt", "reason": "The rules reserve an advice class for the Service, and its talk names no role from a Pool that holds the row's credential to adopt held answers.", "next": "Set talk: { adopt: '' } to a role from a Pool whose credential meets the advice row, or turn talk off with talk: false. rules 2026-10 reserve advise as advice, and talk names no role to adopt it.", "doc_url": "https://services.dev/docs/reference/check/advice_without_adopt" } ```
The whole document check --json prints ```json title="npx services.dev check --json" { "ai": { "cents_per_call": 42, "simulated": true }, "mcp": { "tools": 13, "tokens": 4490, "sandbox": 9, "budget": 8000 }, "files": [ { "path": "rules.ts", "lines": 7, "kind": "rules", "says": "rules 2026-10 · 1 Service · 2 rows" }, { "path": "pools/translators.ts", "lines": 5, "kind": "pool", "pools": [ "translators" ], "says": "translators · 1 role: translator · joins in 1 step · feed · hold 24h" } ], "services": [ { "path": "services/translation.ts", "lines": 11, "steps": "translate · ai → harden · ai · adversarial · 2 lenses → sign · translator · * · stamped", "ok": false, "price": "$89 per job, within 48 hours, charged on delivery.", "who": "A translator signs every document before delivery. (rules 2026-10)", "roles": [ "translator · sworn translator · from translators" ], "rules": "2026-10", "boundary": { "full": [ "reserved sign to sworn translator" ] }, "talk": "the AI answers the client · advice (advise, rules 2026-10) held, and no role adopts it · contact relays through the thread", "agent": { "tool": "order_translation", "words": 26, "job": "job_7Hq2", "status": "waiting", "on": "claim", "charged": null, "person": true, "why": "" }, "ledger": "+$89.00 · AI $1.26 (example) · you $87.74", "approved_ledger": null, "outcome": null, "margin": { "floor": { "cents": 7120, "pct": 80 }, "own": 7120, "stop": 1780, "nested": [], "cases": { "first": 7120, "cap": 7120, "decline": 7120, "advice": 0, "caps": { "sign": 0.5 }, "owned": false, "terms": { "price": 8900, "ai": 1780, "nested": 0, "fees": [ { "role": "translator", "step": "sign", "cents": 0 } ], "coverage": 0 }, "who": "translator", "does": "signs", "again": "a second translator" } }, "apps": [ "customer portal", "delivery portal", "owner console" ], "failures": [ { "code": "advice_without_adopt", "reason": "The rules reserve an advice class for the Service, and its talk names no role from a Pool that holds the row's credential to adopt held answers.", "next": "Set talk: { adopt: '' } to a role from a Pool whose credential meets the advice row, or turn talk off with talk: false. rules 2026-10 reserve advise as advice, and talk names no role to adopt it.", "doc_url": "https://services.dev/docs/reference/check/advice_without_adopt" } ] } ] } ```
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