---
title: "Creating a new Skill Membership"
method: POST
path: "/skill_memberships"
tags: ["Skill Memberships"]
---

# Creating a new Skill Membership

`POST /skill_memberships`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.mavenlink.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.mavenlink.com/api/v1/skill_memberships`
- Auth: none declared

Adds a skill to a user.

**Bulk Create**

This endpoint supports bulk creating up to 200 objects. In the request body, set the top-level key to its plural form and place the objects in an array. Example:

```
{
  "skill_memberships": [
    {
      "skill_id": 123,
      "user_id": 111
    },
    {
      "skill_id": 456,
      "user_id": 222
    }
  ]
}
```


This endpoint returns structured Skill Membership objects.
As with all Kantata OX API endpoints, the returned data will be referenced in sorted order in the `results` array
and will be indexed by ID in the `skill_memberships` top-level JSON key.
Please see our [Response Format](#section/Response-Format) section for more information.

## Query parameters

- `include` string

## Request body

- object
  - `skill_membership` object
    - `skill_id` integer, required: The ID of the skill.
    - `user_id` integer, required: The ID of the user.
    - `level` integer: The user's proficiency level in the skill (1-5). This defaults to 0 if it is not specified. Note: Not all skills have levels.

## Response `200`

Skill Membership has been created.

- object
  - `count` integer
  - `meta` object
    - `count` integer
    - `page_count` integer
    - `page_number` integer
    - `page_size` integer
  - `results` object[]
    - `key` string
    - `id` string
  - `skill_memberships` object
  - `skills` object
  - `users` object

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `401`: Unauthorized request
- `403`: Forbidden request
- `404`: Page Not Found
- `422`: Unprocessable Entity
- `503`: Service is unavailable

---

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