--- title: "Add or remove ids on one of a trait's multi-link fields" method: POST path: "/api/v2/trait/{id}/links/{field}" tags: ["Trait"] --- # Add or remove ids on one of a trait's multi-link fields `POST /api/v2/trait/{id}/links/{field}` ## Request - Base URL: `https://www.onlyworlds.com` - URL: `https://www.onlyworlds.com/api/v2/trait/{id}/links/{field}` - Auth: API key in header `API-Key` and API key in header `API-Pin` ## Path parameters - `id` string, uuid, required - `field` 'empowered_abilities', required ## Headers - `If-Match` string - `X-OW-Agent` string ## Request body - LinkOperation: Atomic add/remove on one multi-link field. Adds dedupe; removes of absent ids are tolerated. Added ids must exist in this world. - `add` string[] - `remove` string[] ## Response `200` Updated: the full element. - Trait: A trait as the API returns it. Single links are an id or null, multi links an array of ids; extension fields appear inline. `?fields=` returns only the named keys, and `?expand=` replaces the named links' ids with ElementStub objects. - `type` 'trait', required - `id` string, uuid, required - `name` string, required: Name of the element. - `description` string, required: Any kind of details about the element. - `supertype` string, required: The top level category to which the element belongs. - `subtype` string, required: The sub level category through which the element is further classified. - `image_url` string, required: URL to an image representing the element. - `social_effects` string, required: Relating to social relationships, reputation, or interaction dynamics. - `physical_effects` string, required: Relating to physical changes, limitations, or enhancements. - `functional_effects` string, required: Relating to practical or learned performance or aptitude. - `personality_effects` string, required: Relating to temperament, mental state, or personality expression. - `behaviour_effects` string, required: Relating to visible aspects and patterns of behavior. - `significance` string, required: Describes the trait's societal, symbolic, or systemic presence. - `charisma` integer, nullable, required: Affecting a character's charisma score. - `coercion` integer, nullable, required: Affecting a character's coercion score. - `competence` integer, nullable, required: Affecting a character's competence score. - `compassion` integer, nullable, required: Affecting a character's compassion score. - `creativity` integer, nullable, required: Affecting a character's creativity score. - `courage` integer, nullable, required: Affecting a character's courage score. - `anti_trait` string, uuid, nullable, required: Opposing trait that contradicts or nullifies the trait. A Trait's id. - `empowered_abilities` string[], required: Abilities strengthened or enabled by the trait. Ability ids. - `created_at` string, date-time, required - `updated_at` string, date-time, required - `change_seq` integer, required: The world change sequence at this element's last write. - `created_by` string, uuid, nullable, required: The world membership that created this element, or null when the world's owner did. - `changed_by` string, uuid, nullable, required: The world membership that last changed this element, or null when the world's owner (or the server) did, or no write has touched it since doors were recorded. - `changed_via` 'seat' | 'mcp' | 'declared' | 'api' | 'v1' | 'sync' | 'server' | 'null', nullable, required: The door of the last change: `seat` (an agent seat), `mcp` (the MCP server), `declared` (the request sent an X-OW-Agent header), `api`, `v1`, `sync` (the mobile app's sync) or `server` (the server, on its own behalf). The first three mean an agent made it. Null: no write since doors were recorded. - `known_of` true: Present, and true, only on an element this reader knows of but does not see whole: a guest or player reaches it only because its own Character's sheet links to it (one step out). Such a row keeps `id`, `type`, `name`, `description`, `supertype`, `subtype`, `image_url`, `created_at`, `updated_at` and `change_seq`, and its type's public fields (none for a trait); every other field reads as unset (text "", numbers and single links null, multi links [], `created_by`, `changed_by` and `changed_via` null, no extension fields), its files are 404, and search matches only what it keeps. Absent: the element is whole. Any other grant (it names the reader's Character, the reader knows it, it is on the roster, the reader made it) makes it whole; a hidden element is never even a stub, whatever its public fields. Read-only: a write carrying `known_of` is refused (`known_of_not_writable`). ## Other responses - `400`: A link names an element that does not exist in this world (code invalid_link). - `401`: Missing, invalid or revoked credential, or a wrong PIN (authentication_error; code key_revoked for a revoked key, invalid_credentials otherwise). - `403`: The credential is valid but lacks the scope: a read key on a write route (permission_error). Or a contributor or guest key changed, replaced, relinked or deleted an element someone else created (code not_author); those members change only their own, and, for an agent seat the owner gave a Character, that Character (never deleting it). - `404`: Not found in this world (not_found). - `412`: If-Match named a change_seq the element has moved past (precondition_failed); nothing was written. The body carries the envelope and, beside it, `current`: the element as it is now. - `422`: Invalid request: unknown or read-only field, bad value, unknown query parameter, over-long text, extensions over the size cap (invalid_request); `param` names the culprit. - `429`: Too many failed PIN attempts; see the Retry-After header (rate_limited). Or too many requests: over the request budget (code too_many_requests, type rate_limited): 300 requests a minute per key or account token, 60 a minute per address for a request with neither. Retry after the Retry-After header's seconds. - `503`: The server is busy: every request slot stayed full for 10 s (code server_busy, type api_error). Retry after the Retry-After header's seconds. ## Changes - **2026-10-20** `78df39c4c62e`: 8 warning - added the new `known_of_not_writable` enum value to the `allOf[subschema #1: Error]/error/code` response property for the response status `412` - added the new `known_of_not_writable` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `400` - added the new `known_of_not_writable` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `401` - added the new `known_of_not_writable` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `403` - …4 more - **2026-10-20** `4dd5b1cd0687`: 16 warning, 2 info - added the new `character_taken` enum value to the `allOf[subschema #1: Error]/error/code` response property for the response status `412` - added the new `character_taken` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `400` - added the new `character_taken` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `401` - added the new `character_taken` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `403` - …14 more [Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/onlyworlds/apis/onlyworlds-api/changes/api/v2/trait/:id/links/:field/post.md) --- [API](https://skmtc.dev/onlyworlds/apis/onlyworlds-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/onlyworlds/apis/onlyworlds-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/onlyworlds/apis/onlyworlds-api/revisions/1752622ae8ce?raw)