---
title: "Create or update a policy draft"
method: PUT
path: "/zones/{zone_id}/policies/{policy_id}/draft"
tags: ["PolicyDrafts"]
---

# Create or update a policy draft

`PUT /zones/{zone_id}/policies/{policy_id}/draft`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://docs.keycard.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://docs.keycard.ai/zones/{zone_id}/policies/{policy_id}/draft`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - OAuth 2
    - Client credentials
    - Token URL: `/service-account-token`

## Path parameters

- `zone_id` string, required
- `policy_id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `format` 'cedar' | 'json'
- `validate_cedar` boolean

## Headers

- `X-API-Version` string
- `X-Client-Request-ID` string, uuid

## Request body

- PdpUpsertPolicyDraftRequest
  - `cedar_json` object, nullable: Cedar policy in JSON representation. Mutually exclusive with cedar_raw.
  - `cedar_raw` string, nullable: Cedar policy in human-readable Cedar syntax. Mutually exclusive with cedar_json.
  - `schema_version` string, required

## Response `200`

The upserted policy draft

- PdpPolicyDraft
  - `policy_id` string, required
  - `cedar_json` object, nullable: Cedar policy in JSON representation. Populated by default and when `format=json` is passed; null when `format=cedar` narrows the response to the text representation only. Serialized verbatim from the converted Cedar so the order of `staticPolicies` matches the source policy order (ACC-613).
  - `cedar_raw` string, nullable: Cedar policy in human-readable syntax. Populated by default and when `format=cedar` is passed; null when `format=json` narrows the response to the JSON representation only.
  - `schema_version` string, required
  - `base_version_id` string, nullable: ID of the policy version this draft was hydrated from. Null when the draft was created without an existing version.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_by` string, required
  - `updated_by_user` PdpUser: The organization user behind a `created_by`, `updated_by` or `archived_by` value. Returned only when `expand[]=user` is requested.
    - `id` string, required: Public ID of the user in the organization's platform zone. This is not the same value as the `*_by` field it expands; use it to link to `/zones/{zone_id}/users/{id}`.
    - `zone_id` string, required: Public ID of the organization's platform zone the user belongs to.
    - `email` string, nullable, required: The user's email address, or null when not known.

## Other responses

- `400`: bad request error response when caller supplied invalid input data
- `401`: unauthorized error response when caller session is not authenticated
- `403`: forbidden error response when caller does not have permissions to a resource
- `404`: not found error response when caller does not have permission to see a resource or the resource does not exist
- `409`: Conflict - concurrency conflict
- `429`: rate limit exceeded error response when caller has exhausted api limits for the given time period
- `500`: internal server error response when server encountered error of its own creation
- `503`: service unavailable error when server you're attempting to reach is not available
- `default`: internal server error response when server encountered error of its own creation

## Changes

- **2026-10-16** `0cfaff865771`: 18 breaking, 9 warning, 91 info
  - the response property `details/items/field` became optional for the status `400`
  - the response property `details/items/field` became optional for the status `401`
  - the response property `details/items/field` became optional for the status `403`
  - the response property `details/items/field` became optional for the status `404`
  - …114 more
- **2026-04-02** `aee6e66de0d3`: 2 breaking, 8 info
  - the response property `cedar_json` became nullable for the status `200`
  - the response property `cedar_json` became optional for the status `200`
  - the endpoint scheme security `OAuth2` was added to the API
  - added the new optional `query` request parameter `format`
  - …6 more
- **2026-03-16** `d3d69f45bfed`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/keycardai/apis/untitled-api/changes/zones/:zone_id/policies/:policy_id/draft/put.md)

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