---
title: "Create a posture"
method: POST
path: "/postures"
tags: ["Postures"]
---

# Create a posture

`POST /postures`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.mnemom.ai/v1`
- URL: `https://api.mnemom.ai/v1/postures`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-Mnemom-Api-Key`

Authorized: org_admin / org_owner for org-scope; platform admins for platform-scope.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string, required

## Request body

- object
  - `slug` string, required: URL-safe identifier for the posture, unique within its scope (lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens).
  - `name` string, required: Human-readable display name for the posture.
  - `description` string: Optional human-readable summary of what this posture enforces.
  - `scope` 'platform' | 'org', required
  - `org_id` string: Required when scope=org.
  - `body` PostureBody, required: Trust posture body (PostureBody v1.0). Matches the runtime validator at src/composition/posture-validate.ts EXACTLY — strict-unknown-field rejection (additionalProperties:false) at every level, so adding a field requires a posture_schema_version bump (ADR-023/ADR-045). Used as the `body` of POST /v1/postures and PUT /v1/postures/{id}.
    - `posture_schema_version` 'v1.0', required: Schema version pin. Must be exactly `v1.0`.
    - `sideband` object, required
      - `coherence` object, required
        - `enabled` boolean, required
        - `cadence_seconds` integer, required
        - `severity_on_fire` 'low' | 'medium' | 'high' | 'critical', required
        - `fire_on` object, required
          - `pairwise_governance_floor_below` number, nullable, required: Fire when pairwise governance floor drops below this; null disables.
          - `conflict_edge_count_exceeds` integer, nullable, required: Fire when conflict-edge count exceeds this; null disables.
          - `outlier_agents_count_exceeds` integer, nullable, required: Fire when outlier-agent count exceeds this; null disables.
      - `fault_line` object, required
        - `enabled` boolean, required
        - `cadence_seconds` integer, required
        - `severity_floor` 'low' | 'medium' | 'high' | 'critical', required
        - `use_reputation_scores` boolean, required
        - `severity_on_fire` 'low' | 'medium' | 'high' | 'critical', required
      - `fleet` object, required
        - `enabled` boolean, required
        - `cadence_seconds` integer, required
        - `severity_on_fire` 'low' | 'medium' | 'high' | 'critical', required
        - `patterns` object, required
          - `outliers` boolean, required
          - `cluster_partition` boolean, required
          - `min_pair_score_below` number, nullable, required: Flag pairs scoring below this; null disables.
    - `fleet_identification` object, required
      - `by` 'team_membership', required
    - `fan_out` object, required
      - `rule` 'per_named_affected_agent', required

## Response `201`

Posture.

- Posture: Trust posture row (mig 173). Library row; revisions are versioned bodies stored separately.
  - `posture_id` string, required
  - `slug` string, required: URL-safe identifier (e.g., 'standard', 'banking-core').
  - `name` string, required
  - `description` string, nullable
  - `scope` 'platform' | 'org', required
  - `org_id` string, nullable: NULL for platform-scope postures.
  - `owner_user_id` string, uuid, nullable
  - `is_default` boolean, required: True for Mnemom-shipped platform defaults.
  - `current_revision_id` string, nullable, required: FK to trust_posture_revisions; NULL only mid-create.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required
  - `deleted_at` string, date-time, nullable: Soft-delete timestamp; NULL = live.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Forbidden
- `409`: Resource conflict — the request cannot proceed because of a current state conflict (e.g., resource already exists, version mismatch, in-flight idempotency key with a different body).
- `429`: Rate-limit exceeded. The global per-IP limiter (100 requests/minute, applied to every `/v1/*` route) rejected this request. Back off until the window resets — `Retry-After` carries the cooldown in seconds and `X-RateLimit-Reset` the absolute reset time.
- `500`: Server error — request was well-formed but the server failed to fulfill it. Typically a downstream dependency (DB / RPC / external API) returned an unexpected error.

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