# Add a user directly to a project

POST

/v1/projects/{projectId}/memberships

```sh
curl --request POST \
  --url https://example.com/v1/projects/example/memberships \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{ "userId": "example", "email": "example", "role": "viewer" }'
```

Names the person by exactly one of `userId` and `email` (matched as the runtime matches emails when it adds a person); someone who is not a person of this tenant, or was removed from it, is refused with 404 `identity-user-not-found`. Adding a role the member already holds answers 201 with the existing record; another role, 409 `membership-exists` naming the role they hold (`details.role`), which is kept: use PATCH to change it.

## Authorizations

- **[bearerAuth](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api.md#bearerauth)**

## Parameters

### Path Parameters

**projectId**

required

string

ProjectId — opaque branded string.

### Header Parameters

**Idempotency-Key**

string

\>= 1 characters

Caller-supplied idempotency key, scoped to the caller: the same key from someone else in the tenant is their own request (from 0.1.5). Retries with the same key return the original response byte-identical (per `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §3.1). A retry sent while the first request still runs is answered `409 idempotency-key-in-flight` with `Retry-After`, on a runtime whose store holds keys (from 0.1.5); retry after it, and you get the first request’s answer. An answer that carries a secret (a new API key or public run token, a session token, a generated signing secret) isn’t kept: a retry gets `409 idempotency-key-replay-withheld`, with the first request’s status and when it succeeded (from 0.1.5).

## Request Bodyrequired

application/json

Exactly one of `userId` and `email` names the person.

object

**userId**

string

\>= 1 characters

**email**

The person’s email, as the tenant has it.

string

\>= 1 characters

**role**

required

A role to give on a project: `owner`, `admin`, `editor` or `viewer`, each including the ones after it. `member` is refused (400): give `viewer`.

string

Allowed values: viewer editor owner admin

## Responses

### 201

Membership added.

application/json

object

**projectId**

required

string

**userId**

required

string

**role**

required

Role on a project, as read. `member` is only read, on a role given before it was retired: it grants what `viewer` does, and writes refuse it.

string

Allowed values: viewer editor owner admin member

##### Example

```json
{
  "role": "viewer"
}
```

### 400

Malformed request body.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 401

Missing / malformed / expired / revoked bearer token.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 403

The person is one a site signs in, who holds only the grants their site’s sign-in writes (`site-person-grants-managed`).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 404

No project with that id under this tenant (`project-not-found`), or the person named is not a member of this tenant (`identity-user-not-found`).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 409

A member already, with another role (`membership-exists`, `details.role`); or an Idempotency-Key reused with another body.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 413

The request body is over the API’s limit (`request-too-large`; `details.maxBytes` says how much).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 500

Server error (unmapped domain code or framework crash).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

## See also

- [`GET /v1/projects/{projectId}/memberships`: List direct memberships of a project](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api/operations/projectsmembershipslist.md)
- [`GET /v1/projects/{projectId}`: Fetch a project by id](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api/operations/projectsget.md)
- [`PATCH /v1/projects/{projectId}`: Partially update a project](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api/operations/projectsupdate.md)
- [`DELETE /v1/projects/{projectId}`: Delete a project (idempotent)](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api/operations/projectsdelete.md)
- [Error code `identity-user-not-found`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#identity-user-not-found)
- [Error code `membership-exists`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#membership-exists)
- [Error code `project-not-found`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#project-not-found)
- [Error code `request-too-large`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#request-too-large)
- [Error code `site-person-grants-managed`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#site-person-grants-managed)
- [Every error code](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md)
