---
title: "List Taxonomy Templates"
method: POST
path: "/v1/templates/taxonomies"
tags: ["Templates", "Taxonomy Templates"]
---

# List Taxonomy Templates

`POST /v1/templates/taxonomies`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.mixpeek.com`
- URL: `https://api.mixpeek.com/v1/templates/taxonomies`
- Auth: HTTP bearer and API key in header `X-Namespace`

List taxonomy templates (system + organization + user).

Supports filtering, sorting, and search like other list operations.

## Request body

- ListTemplatesRequest: Request model for listing templates. Provides the same filtering, sorting, and search capabilities as other list operations (list collections, list buckets, etc.).
  - `filters` object, nullable: Filters to apply when listing templates. Format: {"AND": [{"field": "field_name", "operator": "eq", "value": "value"}]}
  - `sort` object, nullable: Sort options for the results. Format: {'field': 'name', 'direction': 'asc'}
  - `search` string, nullable: Search term for wildcard search across template_id, name, description, and tags
  - `scope` 'system' | 'organization' | 'user' | 'public': Scope of template availability. system: Mixpeek-provided, available to all orgs organization: Private to org members user: Private to creator only public: User-created, discoverable by all orgs (marketplace)
  - `category` string, nullable: Filter by category
  - `is_active` boolean: Show only active templates
  - `tags` string[], nullable: Filter by tags (templates must have ALL specified tags)

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ListTemplatesResponse: Response model for listing templates.
  - `results` BaseTemplateModel[], required: List of templates
    - `template_id` string, required: Unique template identifier (e.g., 'tmpl_semantic_search')
    - `template_type` 'namespace' | 'retriever' | 'cluster' | 'collection' | 'bucket' | 'taxonomy' | 'scaffold', required: Types of resources that can be templated.
    - `mode` 'scaffold' | 'config' | 'clone' | 'manifest': Mode of template instantiation. scaffold: Create from pre-built preset - Creates: namespace + bucket + collection + retriever - Endpoint: POST /templates/scaffolds/{id}/instantiate - All resources empty, ready for data config: Copy resource configuration only - Creates: empty resource with same settings - Endpoint: POST /templates/{resource}/{id}/instantiate - No data copied clone: Copy resource with all data - Creates: full copy including vectors/embeddings - Endpoint: POST /namespaces/{id}/clone - For a config-only namespace copy, export a manifest and apply it manifest: A whole pipeline as a Mixpeek manifest - Creates: every resource the manifest declares (connections, buckets, syncs, collections, retrievers, alerts, triggers) - Endpoint: POST /manifest/apply with configuration["manifest"] - For templates that need more than extractors and indexes
    - `scope` 'system' | 'organization' | 'user' | 'public', required: Scope of template availability. system: Mixpeek-provided, available to all orgs organization: Private to org members user: Private to creator only public: User-created, discoverable by all orgs (marketplace)
    - `internal_id` string, required: Organization internal ID. For system templates, use 'system'. For org templates, use the actual internal_id.
    - `name` string, required: Human-readable template name
    - `description` string, required: Detailed description of the template's purpose
    - `category` string, nullable: Optional category for organizing templates
    - `configuration` object, required: Template-specific configuration (varies by template_type)
    - `tags` string[]: Tags for categorizing and filtering templates
    - `is_active` boolean: Whether this template is available for use
    - `is_public` boolean: Whether this template is publicly discoverable without authentication
    - `use_cases` string[]: List of common use cases for this template
    - `requirements` string[]: List of requirements (e.g., 'Requires text embeddings')
    - `created_by` string, nullable: User ID who created this template (for org templates)
    - `source_resource_id` string, nullable: ID of the resource this template was created from (for org templates)
    - `sample_namespace_id` string, nullable: Reference to a sample/golden namespace for this scaffold (used for Studio quickstart cloning)
    - `example_queries` string[]: Runnable example queries for this template's sample data; the first renders on the card
    - `whats_inside` string, nullable: One-sentence description of the sample corpus (what you get, with counts)
    - `materialize_estimate` string, nullable: Honest time estimate for sample data to become searchable after instantiate
    - `created_at` string, date-time: Timestamp when template was created
    - `updated_at` string, date-time: Timestamp when template was last updated
  - `total_count` integer, required: Total number of templates matching the query

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not Found
- `422`: Unprocessable Entity
- `429`: Too Many Requests
- `500`: Internal Server Error
- `503`: Service Unavailable

## Changes

- **2026-10-09** `61a175e8eb9a`: 1 warning, 5 info
  - removed the optional property `detail` from the response with the `422` status
  - added the non-success response with the status `429`
  - added the non-success response with the status `503`
  - added the optional property `success` to the response with the `422` status
  - …2 more
- **2026-09-16** `06a23e5a9062`: 1 warning
  - added the new `manifest` enum value to the `results/items/mode` response property for the response status `200`
- **2026-08-09** `5d4c905106b4`: 1 info
  - the endpoint scheme security `BearerAuth AND NamespaceHeader` was added to the API
- **2026-07-26** `7cb051533311`: 3 info
  - added the optional property `results/items/example_queries` to the response with the `200` status
  - added the optional property `results/items/materialize_estimate` to the response with the `200` status
  - added the optional property `results/items/whats_inside` to the response with the `200` status

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/mixpeek/apis/mixpeek-api/changes/v1/templates/taxonomies/post.md)

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