---
title: "Fire a global workflow event signal"
method: POST
path: "/api/workflow-events"
tags: ["WorkflowEvents"]
---

# Fire a global workflow event signal

`POST /api/workflow-events`

Emits an event onto the workflow event bus. Wait-states with `scope: 'global'` may match. Run-scoped waits will NOT match this broadcast unless the payload carries a matching `workflowRunId`.

## Request body

- object
  - `name` string, required
  - `payload` object

## Response `200`

Event emitted

- object
  - `ok` true, required
  - `name` string, required

## Other responses

- `400` — Validation error

## Changes

- **2026-08-07** `06cac6a7c5bc` — 2 info
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `200`
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `400`

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/desplega-ai/apis/agent-swarm-api/changes/api/workflow-events/post.md)

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