---
title: "Notify Impersonation Start"
method: POST
path: "/api/admin/impersonation/notify"
tags: ["v2", "admin", "admin", "impersonation"]
---

# Notify Impersonation Start

`POST /api/admin/impersonation/notify`

Emit a Discord audit alert when an admin starts impersonating a user.

Admin-only. The alert gates impersonation: callers must treat a non-2xx
response as "do not impersonate".

## Request body

- ImpersonationNotifyRequest
  - `target_user_id` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ImpersonationNotifyResponse
  - `alerted` boolean, required

## Other responses

- `401` — Authentication required
- `422` — Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-09-07** `d3946c727d24` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/significant-gravitas/apis/autogpt-agent-server/changes/api/admin/impersonation/notify/post.md)

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