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General·HTTP 403·API, FE

Approval needs another admin

approval_self_forbidden

You asked for this build, so you cannot be the one to approve it.

What this means​

A deploy that needs approval has to be approved by a second person. The person who asked for the build cannot approve their own request.

How to fix it​

Ask another admin of the project to approve the build.

Retry behavior​

Sending the same request again gets the same answer.

How it appears in the response​

ComputeSphere returns errors as RFC 7807 Problem Details. The type field is the docs URL for this page — switch on code in your client.

{
  "type":    "https://docs.computesphere.com/errors/approval_self_forbidden",
  "title":   "Approval needs another admin",
  "status":  403,
  "code":    "approval_self_forbidden",
  "detail":  "You asked for this build, so you cannot be the one to approve it.",
  "instance": "/v2/…",
  "request_id": "f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
  "trace_id":   null
}

The Content-Type header is application/problem+json. On field-level validation errors a non-empty errors[] array also appears, each entry carrying its own docs_url for the offending field.