---
title: "Create a hosted project"
method: POST
path: "/api/v0/desk/projects"
tags: ["Desk"]
---

# Create a hosted project

`POST /api/v0/desk/projects`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.outerport.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.outerport.com/api/v0/desk/projects`
- Auth: HTTP bearer
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/outerport/apis/outerport-api/docs/api/v0/desk/projects/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

An empty project under a name unique to this account, connected to ``knowledge_base_id`` when given, one of the caller's collections.

## Request body

- DeskProjectCreateRequest
  - `name` string, required
  - `knowledge_base_id` string, uuid, nullable

## Response `201`

Successful Response

- DeskProjectResponse
  - `id` string, uuid, required
  - `name` string, required
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required
  - `revision` integer, required: Moves on every change to the project's files.
  - `file_count` integer, required
  - `total_bytes` integer, required
  - `is_owner` boolean, required: The caller created this project.
  - `can_manage` boolean, required: The caller may rename, delete and unshare the project: its owner, or an admin of the organization it is shared with. Sharing it, or moving it to another organization, is the owner's alone (``is_owner``).
  - `owner_email` string, nullable: The owner's address, on a project the caller does not own.
  - `shared_with` DeskProjectShare: The organization a project is shared with.
    - `organization_id` string, uuid, required
    - `name` string, required
  - `knowledge_base` DeskProjectKnowledgeBase: The collection a project is connected to.
    - `id` string, uuid, required
    - `name` string, required

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-10-26** `07854361a13b`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/outerport/apis/outerport-api/changes/api/v0/desk/projects/post.md)

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