Create a user capability grant
Settings module
POST/user-capability-grantsuserCapabilityGrants.create
A time-boxed capability grant to a person. A person cannot grant themselves a capability. Creates a user capability grant. Requires `Idempotency-Key`; a replay returns the original response. The organization is derived from the credential or the parent row, never from the body.
- Requires the capability org.members.manage.
- OAuth scopes: org.
- Send an Idempotency-Key header. A replay with the same key returns the original response.
- Error statuses: 400, 401, 409, 422, 429. Errors are RFC 9457 problem details.
Request body: UserCapabilityGrantCreate
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| capability_code | string | Yes | Capability verb.Constraints: pattern ^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,63}$ |
| valid_from | string (date-time) | No | Start of the grant. |
| valid_to | string (date-time) | null | No | End of the grant. |
| membership_id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the membership that receives the capability. |
| scope_kind | "organization" | "workspace" | "team" | "project" | "record" | null | No | Kind of scope the grant is limited to; null for an org-wide grant. |
| scope_id | string (uuid) | null | No | Identifier of the workspace, team, project or record the grant is limited to; null for an org-wide grant. |
| reason | string | Yes | Why the grant was made.Constraints: length 1 to 2000 |
{
"capability_code": "crew.timesheet.approve",
"valid_from": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"valid_to": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"membership_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"scope_kind": "organization",
"scope_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"reason": "Covering approvals during the tour."
}Response 201: UserCapabilityGrant
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the user capability grant. |
| org_id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the owning organization, derived from the parent row and never accepted from the caller. |
| created_at | string (date-time) | Yes | When the row was created. |
| created_by | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the person who created the row; null when a seed, platform or system process created it. |
| updated_at | string (date-time) | Yes | When the row was last updated. |
| updated_by | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the person who last updated the row; null when a seed, platform or system process updated it. |
| capability_code | string | Yes | Capability verb.Constraints: pattern ^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,63}$ |
| valid_from | string (date-time) | Yes | Start of the grant. |
| valid_to | string (date-time) | null | Yes | End of the grant. |
| membership_id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the membership that receives the capability. |
| scope_kind | "organization" | "workspace" | "team" | "project" | "record" | null | Yes | Kind of scope the grant is limited to; null for an org-wide grant. |
| scope_id | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the workspace, team, project or record the grant is limited to; null for an org-wide grant. |
| granted_by | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the person who granted it; never the grantee. |
| reason | string | Yes | Why the grant was made.Constraints: length 1 to 2000 |
{
"id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"org_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"created_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"created_by": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"updated_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"updated_by": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"capability_code": "crew.timesheet.approve",
"valid_from": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"valid_to": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"membership_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"scope_kind": "organization",
"scope_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"granted_by": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"reason": "Covering approvals during the tour."
}Code samples
curl -X POST "$XOS_BASE_URL/user-capability-grants" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $XOS_API_KEY" \
-H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"capability_code":"crew.timesheet.approve","valid_from":"2026-10-08T14:30:00Z","valid_to":"2026-10-08T14:30:00Z","membership_id":"0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f","scope_kind":"organization","scope_id":"0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f","reason":"Covering approvals during the tour."}'const { data } = await xos.userCapabilityGrants.create({
"capability_code": "crew.timesheet.approve",
"valid_from": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"valid_to": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"membership_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"scope_kind": "organization",
"scope_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"reason": "Covering approvals during the tour."
});response = xos.user_capability_grants.create({"capability_code": "crew.timesheet.approve", "valid_from": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z", "valid_to": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z", "membership_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f", "scope_kind": "organization", "scope_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f", "reason": "Covering approvals during the tour."})xos user-capability-grants create --data '{"capability_code":"crew.timesheet.approve","valid_from":"2026-10-08T14:30:00Z","valid_to":"2026-10-08T14:30:00Z","membership_id":"0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f","scope_kind":"organization","scope_id":"0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f","reason":"Covering approvals during the tour."}'