# Create handle

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/affiliate/post-affiliate-me-handle

> Sets the caller's public leaderboard display name, or clears it.

`POST /v1/affiliate/me/handle`

> [Affiliate →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/affiliate) · [All API references →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi) · [Get started →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/guides)

|               |                                               |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/affiliate/me/handle` |
| **Method**    | `POST`                                        |
| **Operation** | `post_affiliate_me_handle`                    |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`        |

Sets the caller's public leaderboard display name, or clears it.

The handle IS the opt-in. An empty handle opts out: the affiliate keeps its
rank and can still see its own row, it simply stops being listed to anyone
else. That is the whole privacy control — there is no separate visibility
flag, and no way to be listed without choosing a name.

Requires a validated principal and an existing affiliate record; apply first.
The handle is bounded and restricted to letters, digits, space, hyphen,
underscore and dot.

## Request

1 field, body `application/json` (required).

| Field    | In   | Type   | Required | Description                                                    |
| -------- | ---- | ------ | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `handle` | body | string | —        | Handle is the public leaderboard display name; empty opts out. |

## Response

| Status    | Body                | Meaning |
| --------- | ------------------- | ------- |
| `200`     | affiliate.handleSet | ok      |
| `default` | problem-details     | refused |

`200` body — 1 field.

| Field    | In   | Type   | Always | Description                                                       |
| -------- | ---- | ------ | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `handle` | body | string | —      | Handle is the display name as STORED, echoed back after trimming. |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo affiliate me handle
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, AffiliateApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new AffiliateApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.postAffiliateMeHandle({ handle: "<handle>" });
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import AffiliateApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = AffiliateApi(client).post_affiliate_me_handle(handle="<handle>")
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.AffiliateAPI.PostAffiliateMeHandle(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, affiliate_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = affiliate_api::post_affiliate_me_handle(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.AffiliateApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new AffiliateApi(client).postAffiliateMeHandle();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/affiliate/me/handle \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "handle": "<handle>"
     }'
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **affiliate** through the `affiliate` tool, which names its 10 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_affiliates"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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[Affiliate API](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/affiliate) · [All Hanzo APIs](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi) · [Interactive reference](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/reference)