# Create repos

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/git/post-git-repos

> Provisions an empty bare repository in the caller's scope and returns it with its clone URLs.

`POST /v1/git/repos`

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|               |                                        |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/git/repos`    |
| **Method**    | `POST`                                 |
| **Operation** | `post_git_repos`                       |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY` |

Provisions an empty bare repository in the caller's scope and
returns it with its clone URLs. Answers 201. The name must be unique within
the scope — a repeat is a 409, never a silent overwrite of an existing repo.
The org comes from the validated principal, so a repo is always born owned by
the caller's own tenant.

## Request

4 fields, body `application/json` (required).

| Field         | In   | Type    | Required | Description                                                                                  |
| ------------- | ---- | ------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `description` | body | string  | —        | Description is a free-form blurb, max 4KiB.                                                  |
| `name`        | body | string  | —        | Name is the repo's handle, unique within the scope, and the last segment of both clone URLs. |
| `project`     | body | string  | —        | Project narrows the repo to a sub-scope of the org.                                          |
| `public`      | body | boolean | —        | Public grants ANONYMOUS read (fetch) only; push and the whole control plane stay org-authed. |

## Response

| Status    | Body            | Meaning |
| --------- | --------------- | ------- |
| `201`     | git.repoView    | created |
| `default` | problem-details | refused |

`201` body — 14 fields.

| Field           | In   | Type            | Always | Description                                                                                            |
| --------------- | ---- | --------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `branches`      | body | string\[]       | —      | Branches are the repo's branch names.                                                                  |
| `cloneUrl`      | body | string          | —      | CloneURL is the HTTPS smart-HTTP remote `git clone` takes.                                             |
| `createdAt`     | body | string          | —      | CreatedAt is RFC 3339 UTC.                                                                             |
| `defaultBranch` | body | string          | —      | DefaultBranch is where HEAD points on a fresh repo ("main").                                           |
| `description`   | body | string          | —      | Description is the caller-supplied blurb (max 4KiB).                                                   |
| `head`          | body | string          | —      | Head is the resolved HEAD commit, empty on an empty repo.                                              |
| `id`            | body | string          | —      | ID is the repo's stable, prefixed identifier ("repo\_" + 128 random bits).                             |
| `name`          | body | string          | —      | Name is the org-unique handle, and the last path segment of both URLs below.                           |
| `org`           | body | string          | —      | Org owns the repo — the gateway-minted X-Org-Id, and the isolation key.                                |
| `project`       | body | string          | —      | Project is the optional sub-scope the repo lives in; absent for the org's default scope.               |
| `public`        | body | boolean         | —      | Public grants ANONYMOUS read (fetch) only; push and the whole control plane stay org-authed.           |
| `sizeBytes`     | body | integer (int64) | —      | SizeBytes is the repo's measured on-disk size, re-measured on create, after each push, and after a gc. |
| `sshUrl`        | body | string          | —      | SSHURL is the scp-style SSH remote (git\@host:org/repo.git).                                           |
| `updatedAt`     | body | string          | —      | UpdatedAt is RFC 3339 UTC, empty until the first write.                                                |

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

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo git repos create
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

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

const api = new GitApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.postGitRepos({ description: "<description>", name: "<name>" });
```

**.py**

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

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = GitApi(client).post_git_repos(description="<description>", name="<name>")
```

**.go**

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

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

**.rs**

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

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

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

**.java**

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

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

var result = new GitApi(client).postGitRepos();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/git/repos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "description": "<description>",
       "name": "<name>"
     }'
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **git** through the `git` tool, which names its 38 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_git_keys"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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