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title: "Create a template"
description: "`notify.templates.create` (POST /v1/{parent}/templates): Creates a template."
type: reference
product: email
summary: "Creates a template."
updated: 2026-09-28
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---

Creates a template.

- **Path** `POST https://api.sylphx.com/v1/orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production/templates`
- **Scope** `notify:write`
- **Effect** `write` — a successful call changes state.
- **Collection** [templates](/docs/api/templates)
- **Query** `template_id`, `validate_only`

## Request

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `parent` | `string` | The parent to create in. Required. |
| `template_id` | `string` | The template id, the final name segment; the server assigns one when empty. |
| `template` | `Template` | The template to create; only caller-writable fields are read. Required. |
| `validate_only` | `bool` | Validate and return the result without writing anything. |

### Template

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | `orgs/{org}/projects/{project}/envs/{env}/templates/{template}`. |
| `meta` | `ResourceMeta` | Resource metadata. |
| `spec` | `TemplateSpec` | 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. |

### TemplateSpec

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `email` | `EmailContent` | Email content. |
| `sms` | `SmsContent` | SMS content. |
| `push` | `PushContent` | Push content. |
| `inbox` | `InboxContent` | In-app inbox content. |
| `send_limit` | `SendLimit` | A per-recipient send limit on messages rendered from this template; unset admits every message. |

### EmailContent

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `sender_address` | `string` | The From address; its domain is a verified Email Domain. Required. |
| `subject` | `string` | The subject. Required. |
| `html_body` | `string` | The HTML body. |
| `text_body` | `string` | The plain-text body. |
| `sender_name` | `string` | The From display name, for example the app's name. |

### SmsContent

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `sender` | `string` | The SMS Sender. Required. |
| `body` | `string` | The body. Required. |

### PushContent

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `title` | `string` | The title. Required. |
| `body` | `string` | The body. |
| `data` | `struct` | Data delivered with the notification. |

### InboxContent

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `title` | `string` | The title. Required. |
| `body` | `string` | The body. |
| `action_uri` | `string` | Where the item links. |

### SendLimit

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `min_interval` | `duration` | At least this long between two messages to one recipient. |
| `max_per_hour` | `int32` | At most this many messages to one recipient in any hour; 0 is no limit. |

## Response

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | `orgs/{org}/projects/{project}/envs/{env}/templates/{template}`. |
| `uid` | `string` | `tpl_<cell><ulid>`; never reused. Output only. |
| `meta` | `ResourceMeta` | Resource metadata. |
| `spec` | `TemplateSpec` | Desired state. Required. |
| `status` | `TemplateStatus` | 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. |

### TemplateSpec

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `email` | `EmailContent` | Email content. |
| `sms` | `SmsContent` | SMS content. |
| `push` | `PushContent` | Push content. |
| `inbox` | `InboxContent` | In-app inbox content. |
| `send_limit` | `SendLimit` | A per-recipient send limit on messages rendered from this template; unset admits every message. |

### TemplateStatus

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `observed_generation` | `int64` | The generation this status was computed from. Output only. |
| `conditions` | `Condition[]` | Ready, Reconciling, Stalled. Output only. |
| `version` | `int64` | The version the current spec is; messages pin it. Output only. |

### EmailContent

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `sender_address` | `string` | The From address; its domain is a verified Email Domain. Required. |
| `subject` | `string` | The subject. Required. |
| `html_body` | `string` | The HTML body. |
| `text_body` | `string` | The plain-text body. |
| `sender_name` | `string` | The From display name, for example the app's name. |

### SmsContent

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `sender` | `string` | The SMS Sender. Required. |
| `body` | `string` | The body. Required. |

### PushContent

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `title` | `string` | The title. Required. |
| `body` | `string` | The body. |
| `data` | `struct` | Data delivered with the notification. |

### InboxContent

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `title` | `string` | The title. Required. |
| `body` | `string` | The body. |
| `action_uri` | `string` | Where the item links. |

### SendLimit

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `min_interval` | `duration` | At least this long between two messages to one recipient. |
| `max_per_hour` | `int32` | At most this many messages to one recipient in any hour; 0 is no limit. |

### 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/shop/envs/production/templates" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SYLPHX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"spec":{}}'
```

**TypeScript**

```ts
const response = await sylphx.notify.templates.create({ parent: 'orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production', template: { spec: {} } })
```

**Rust**

```rust
let mut req = sylphx::notify::CreateTemplateRequest::default();
req.parent = "orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production".to_string();
req.template = Some(sylphx::notify::Template {
    spec: Some(Default::default()),
    ..Default::default()
});
let response = sx.notify().templates().create(req).await?;
```

**CLI**

```bash
sylphx notify templates create --parent orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production
```

**MCP**

```json
{ "method_id": "notify.templates.create", "args": {"parent":"orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production","template":{"spec":{}}} }
```