---
title: "Create Work Agent"
method: POST
path: "/work/agents"
tags: ["Work"]
---

# Create Work Agent

`POST /work/agents`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1/work/agents`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Create one Work agent and its conversation.

``visibility: "organization"`` needs the share permission (see
``GET /work/agents/policy``); ``403`` otherwise. Creating does not run it.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string, uuid, nullable: Retry-safety key (a UUID). Replaying one returns the ORIGINAL agent instead of creating a second. Omit it and the server mints one, so a retried request creates again.
- `Authorization` string, nullable
- `X-Target-Org-Id` string, nullable

## Request body

- WorkAgentProfileRequest: A Work agent's profile. Mirrors ``work.agent_profiles.AgentProfileInput``.
  - `name` string, required: Agent name
  - `role` string: Role shown beside the name
  - `description` string, required: The agent's instructions
  - `avatar` 'spark' | 'compass' | 'chart' | 'code' | 'pen' | 'search' | 'shield' | 'bolt': Avatar glyph
  - `visibility` 'private' | 'organization': `private` to its owner, or shared with the `organization`

## Response `201`

Successful Response

- ApiResponseWorkAgentCreated
  - `data` WorkAgentCreated, required: A newly created Work agent and its first conversation.
    - `agent_id` string, nullable: Agent id
    - `session_id` string, nullable: The agent's conversation session id
  - `pagination` PaginationMeta
    - `page` integer, required: Current page number (1-indexed)
    - `limit` integer, required: Items per page
    - `total` integer, required: Total number of items
    - `has_next` boolean, required: Whether there are more pages
    - `next_cursor` string, nullable: Opaque cursor for the next page; null when there are no more items. Pass it back as the `cursor` query param to fetch the following page without computing page numbers.
    - `total_available` integer, nullable: Search endpoints only: how many records really match, when known. Can be larger than `total`, which is capped at the 10,000 results that can be paged. For company search this is a distinct-company estimate. Null when unknown; absent outside search.
    - `total_is_lower_bound` boolean, nullable: Search endpoints only: true when more records match than `total` shows (the result set is larger than the 10,000 results that can be paged). Absent outside search.
    - `notes` string[], nullable: Search endpoints only: plain-language notes about the result, e.g. that more records match than can be paged, or that a reversed `between` range was put in order.

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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