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title: "Create a project"
description: "`access.projects.create` (POST /v1/{parent}/projects): Creates a project."
type: reference
product: platform
summary: "Creates a project."
updated: 2026-09-28
nav: false
---

Creates a project. Access assigns the id.

- **Path** `POST https://api.sylphx.com/v1/orgs/acme/projects`
- **Scope** `access:admin`
- **Effect** `write` — a successful call changes state.
- **Collection** [projects](/docs/api/projects)
- **Query** `validate_only`

## Request

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `parent` | `string` | The parent to create in. Required. |
| `project` | `Project` | The project to create; only spec and caller-writable metadata are read. Required. |
| `validate_only` | `bool` | Validate and return the result without writing anything. |

### Project

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | `orgs/{org}/projects/{project}`. |
| `meta` | `ResourceMeta` | Resource metadata. |
| `spec` | `ProjectSpec` | Desired state. Required. |

### ResourceMeta

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `labels` | `map<string, string>` | Caller-writable, indexed labels (AIP-122 label rules). |
| `annotations` | `map<string, string>` | Caller-writable, unindexed annotations. |
| `display_name` | `string` | Caller-writable human-readable name. |

### ProjectSpec

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `slug` | `string` | Unique within the org. Required. |

## Response

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | `orgs/{org}/projects/{project}`. |
| `uid` | `string` | `prj_<cell><ulid>`; equals the name segment. Output only. |
| `meta` | `ResourceMeta` | Resource metadata. |
| `spec` | `ProjectSpec` | Desired state. Required. |
| `status` | `ProjectStatus` | Observed state. Output only. |

### ResourceMeta

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `generation` | `int64` | Increases by one on every change to `spec`. Output only. |
| `etag` | `string` | Strong ETag (AIP-154): changes on any change to spec, status, or metadata. Send it back as `If-Match` or `etag` to make Update and Delete conditional; a mismatch fails with ABORTED / 409 `ETAG_MISMATCH`. Output only. |
| `create_time` | `timestamp` | When the Resource was created. Output only. |
| `update_time` | `timestamp` | When the Resource last changed. Output only. |
| `delete_time` | `timestamp` | Set while the Resource is being deleted. Output only. |
| `labels` | `map<string, string>` | Caller-writable, indexed labels (AIP-122 label rules). |
| `annotations` | `map<string, string>` | Caller-writable, unindexed annotations. |
| `display_name` | `string` | Caller-writable human-readable name. |
| `creator` | `string` | The principal that created the Resource. Output only. |

### ProjectSpec

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `slug` | `string` | Unique within the org. Required. |

### ProjectStatus

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `observed_generation` | `int64` | The generation this status was computed from. Output only. |
| `conditions` | `Condition[]` | Ready, Reconciling, Stalled. Output only. |
| `expire_time` | `timestamp` | When an unclaimed project expires; unset once claimed. Output only. |

### Condition

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `type` | `string` | The condition type, for example `Ready`. |
| `status` | `ConditionStatus` | Whether the condition holds. One of `true`, `false`, `unknown`. |
| `observed_generation` | `int64` | The generation this observation was made against. |
| `reason` | `string` | A machine-readable UpperCamelCase reason. |
| `message` | `string` | A customer-safe human-readable message. |
| `severity` | `Severity` | How severe a FALSE condition is. One of `info`, `warning`, `error`. |
| `transition_time` | `timestamp` | When `status` last changed. |

## Errors

- [`UNAUTHENTICATED`](/docs/api/errors/UNAUTHENTICATED) — No valid key or token was presented.
- [`PERMISSION_DENIED`](/docs/api/errors/PERMISSION_DENIED) — The key lacks the method's permission.
- [`UNKNOWN_FIELD`](/docs/api/errors/UNKNOWN_FIELD) — The request has a field the schema does not know.
- [`INVALID_FIELD`](/docs/api/errors/INVALID_FIELD) — A field failed validation.
- [`RESOURCE_ALREADY_EXISTS`](/docs/api/errors/RESOURCE_ALREADY_EXISTS) — A Resource with this name exists.
- [`IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`](/docs/api/errors/IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED) — An Idempotency-Key was reused with another body.
- [`IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS`](/docs/api/errors/IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS) — The first call with this Idempotency-Key is still running.
- [`PLAN_LIMIT_REACHED`](/docs/api/errors/PLAN_LIMIT_REACHED) — The plan's limit is reached.

Every error arrives in the body [Errors](/docs/platform/errors) describes.

## Examples

**cURL**

```curl
curl -X POST "https://api.sylphx.com/v1/orgs/acme/projects" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SYLPHX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"spec":{"slug":"…"}}'
```

**TypeScript**

```ts
const response = await sylphx.access.projects.create({ parent: 'orgs/acme', project: { spec: { slug: '…' } } })
```

**Rust**

```rust
let mut req = sylphx::access::CreateProjectRequest::default();
req.parent = "orgs/acme".to_string();
req.project = Some(sylphx::access::Project {
    spec: Some(sylphx::access::ProjectSpec {
        slug: "…".to_string(),
        ..Default::default()
    }),
    ..Default::default()
});
let response = sx.access().projects().create(req).await?;
```

**CLI**

```bash
sylphx access projects create --parent orgs/acme --spec.slug …
```

**Terraform**

```hcl
resource "sylphx_access_project" "project" {
  parent = "orgs/acme"
  spec   = { slug = "…" }
}
```

**MCP**

```json
{ "method_id": "access.projects.create", "args": {"parent":"orgs/acme","project":{"spec":{"slug":"…"}}} }
```