Skill: glpi-followup — Add a Followup to a GLPI Ticket

Post a followup (comment / progress note / resolution writeup) to a GLPI ticket. This documents work but does not change the ticket status — to close a ticket out, follow with glpi-solve to set status to Solved.

When to use

Recording progress, a decision, or a root-cause/resolution note on a ticket.
The documentation step that usually precedes closing a ticket out (glpi-solve).

Critical quirk

Use the top-level /ITILFollowup endpoint, NOT /Ticket/<id>/ITILFollowup. The sub-resource path returns permission errors even with a Super-Admin profile.

Procedure

1. Session + creds

SESSION=$(~/.config/mosaic/tools/glpi/session-init.sh -q)
source ~/.config/mosaic/tools/_lib/credentials.sh && load_credentials glpi

2. Post the followup

TICKET_ID=<id>
CONTENT="<the followup text>"
curl -sk -X POST "${GLPI_URL}/ITILFollowup" \
  -H "App-Token: $GLPI_APP_TOKEN" \
  -H "Session-Token: $SESSION" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "$(jq -n --argjson id "$TICKET_ID" --arg c "$CONTENT" \
        '{input:{itemtype:"Ticket", items_id:$id, content:$c}}')"

Expect HTTP 201. Building the payload with jq keeps quotes/newlines in the content safe.

3. Long or multi-paragraph content

Write the note to a file first, then read it into the payload:

curl -sk -X POST "${GLPI_URL}/ITILFollowup" \
  -H "App-Token: $GLPI_APP_TOKEN" -H "Session-Token: $SESSION" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "$(jq -n --argjson id "$TICKET_ID" --rawfile c /path/to/note.md \
        '{input:{itemtype:"Ticket", items_id:$id, content:$c}}')"

Guardrails

Never echo the GLPI app/user/session tokens.
A followup alone leaves the ticket open. If the work is done, run glpi-solve next.

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