# Create roles

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/iam/post-iam-roles

> Makes a role — a named group of people that permissions are granted to.

`POST /v1/iam/roles`

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

|               |                                        |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/iam/roles`    |
| **Method**    | `POST`                                 |
| **Operation** | `post_iam_roles`                       |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY` |

Makes a role — a named group of people that permissions are granted to.
Granting to a role rather than to each person is what keeps access correct as
your team changes: add someone to the role and they inherit everything it can
do. A name already used in your organization is refused.

## Request

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

| Field         | In   | Type      | Required | Description                                                                                                                    |
| ------------- | ---- | --------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `createdTime` | body | string    | —        |                                                                                                                                |
| `description` | body | string    | —        |                                                                                                                                |
| `displayName` | body | string    | —        |                                                                                                                                |
| `domains`     | body | string\[] | —        |                                                                                                                                |
| `isEnabled`   | body | boolean   | —        |                                                                                                                                |
| `name`        | body | string    | —        | Name addresses the team on update and names it on create; every other field is content and binds from the BODY, never the URL. |
| `owner`       | body | string    | —        |                                                                                                                                |
| `roles`       | body | string\[] | —        |                                                                                                                                |
| `teams`       | body | string\[] | —        |                                                                                                                                |
| `users`       | body | string\[] | —        |                                                                                                                                |

## Response

| Status    | Body            | Meaning           |
| --------- | --------------- | ----------------- |
| `200`     | iam.Role        | ok                |
| `202`     | Approval        | held for approval |
| `default` | problem-details | refused           |

`200` body — 14 fields.

| Field         | In   | Type               | Always | Description |
| ------------- | ---- | ------------------ | ------ | ----------- |
| `createdAt`   | body | string (date-time) | —      |             |
| `createdTime` | body | string             | —      |             |
| `deleted`     | body | boolean            | —      |             |
| `description` | body | string             | —      |             |
| `displayName` | body | string             | —      |             |
| `domains`     | body | string\[]          | —      |             |
| `id`          | body | string             | —      |             |
| `isEnabled`   | body | boolean            | —      |             |
| `name`        | body | string             | —      |             |
| `owner`       | body | string             | —      |             |
| `roles`       | body | string\[]          | —      |             |
| `teams`       | body | string\[]          | —      |             |
| `updatedAt`   | body | string (date-time) | —      |             |
| `users`       | body | string\[]          | —      |             |

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

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo iam roles create
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

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

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

**.py**

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

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = IamApi(client).post_iam_roles(created_time="<createdTime>", description="<description>")
```

**.go**

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

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

**.rs**

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

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

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

**.java**

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

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

var result = new IamApi(client).postIamRoles();
```

**HTTP**

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

**MCP**

MCP reaches **iam** through the `iam` tool, which names its 44 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_iam_applications"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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