---
title: "Create a team"
method: POST
path: "/teams"
tags: ["teams"]
---

# Create a team

`POST /teams`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.sparkvault.com/v1`
- URL: `https://api.sparkvault.com/v1/teams`
- Auth: HTTP bearer
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/sparkvault/apis/sparkvault-api/docs/teams/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Create an empty team (org admins only). An organization holds at most 100 teams.

## Response `200`

The team.

- object
  - `data` Team, required: A team of the organization's users. A user is in at most one team.
    - `team_id` string, required: The team's id (`team_…`).
    - `name` string, required: Its name as given: one line, at most 60 characters, unique in the organization whatever its case.
    - `member_count` integer, required: How many users are in the team.
  - `meta` ResponseMeta: Envelope metadata present on every successful response.
    - `api_version` string
    - `request_id` string
    - `response_ms` integer
    - `timestamp` integer: Unix seconds.
    - `pools` object: Storage and bandwidth capacity snapshot for the account.
    - `billing` object
      - `past_due` boolean
    - `quota` object: This minute of the account request budget. Present on authenticated success responses that passed the throttle; absent otherwise.
      - `limit` integer
      - `used` integer
      - `remaining` integer
      - `resets_at` integer: Unix seconds.

## Other responses

- `400`: VALIDATION_ERROR — `name` is missing, blank, over 60 characters, or holds markup.
- `401`: AUTHENTICATION_ERROR — missing or invalid credentials.
- `403`: FORBIDDEN — the caller is not an org admin, or the credential is not an interactive session.
- `409`: TEAM_NAME_TAKEN — another team of the organization holds the name, whatever its case. TEAM_LIMIT_REACHED — the organization holds 100 teams.
- `429`: RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED — the account exceeded 5000 requests this minute. `Retry-After` carries the seconds to wait, and `details` carries limit/resets_at, plus `used` whenever the request was counted. A request refused because the limiter itself was unavailable reports no `used`.

## Changes

- **2026-10-28** `a9a10e328ba5`: 20 info
  - the response property `error/details` became required for the status `400`
  - the response property `error/details` became required for the status `401`
  - the response property `error/details` became required for the status `403`
  - the response property `error/details` became required for the status `409`
  - …16 more
- **2026-10-28** `56d7c265a77a`: 5 breaking
  - the response property `error/details` became nullable for the status `400`
  - the response property `error/details` became nullable for the status `401`
  - the response property `error/details` became nullable for the status `403`
  - the response property `error/details` became nullable for the status `409`
  - …1 more
- **2026-10-21** `9f5e902abd83`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/sparkvault/apis/sparkvault-api/changes/teams/post.md)

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