> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cognee.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create Role

> Create a new role.

This endpoint creates a new role with the specified name. Roles are used
to group permissions and can be assigned to users to manage access control
more efficiently. The authenticated user becomes the owner of the created role.

## Request Parameters
- **role_name** (str): The name of the role to create

## Response
Returns a success message indicating the role was created.

## Error Codes
- **400 Bad Request**: Invalid role name or role already exists
- **500 Internal Server Error**: Error creating the role



## OpenAPI

````yaml /cognee_openapi_spec.json post /api/v1/permissions/roles
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Cognee API
  description: Cognee API with Bearer token and Cookie auth
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://{tenant}.aws.cognee.ai
    description: 'Cognee Cloud: your tenant pod, named in the platform.cognee.ai dashboard'
    variables:
      tenant:
        default: your-tenant
        description: Your tenant name, shown in the Cognee Cloud dashboard
  - url: http://localhost:8000
    description: 'Self-hosted: a locally running cognee server'
security:
  - BearerAuth: []
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - name: activity
    description: >-
      Activity endpoints for inspecting pipeline runs, traced spans, tenant
      users, agents, and dataset exports.
  - name: add
    description: Data ingestion endpoints for adding text, files, and structured data.
  - name: agent connections
    description: >-
      Endpoints for registering, unregistering, and inspecting agent connections
      to the instance.
  - name: agent management
    description: Endpoints for creating, listing, retrieving, and deleting agents.
  - name: auth
    description: >-
      Authentication endpoints for user registration, login, and token
      management.
  - name: checks
    description: >-
      Diagnostic endpoint for validating a Cognee Cloud API key supplied in the
      X-Api-Key header.
  - name: cognify
    description: >-
      Knowledge processing endpoints to transform raw data into knowledge
      graphs.
  - name: configuration
    description: >-
      Endpoints for storing, retrieving, and listing a user's saved
      configurations.
  - name: datasets
    description: Dataset management endpoints for listing, creating, and deleting datasets.
  - name: delete
    description: Data deletion endpoints (deprecated — use datasets endpoints instead).
  - name: forget
    description: Endpoint for removing data from the knowledge graph.
  - name: health
    description: Liveness, readiness, and component health checks.
  - name: improve
    description: Endpoint for enriching and improving an existing knowledge graph.
  - name: integrations
    description: >-
      Endpoints for connecting, provisioning, and disconnecting OAuth providers
      and plugins.
  - name: llm
    description: >-
      LLM-backed endpoints for inferring graph schemas and generating custom
      extraction prompts.
  - name: memify
    description: >-
      Endpoint for running enrichment pipelines over existing graphs or supplied
      data.
  - name: ontologies
    description: >-
      Endpoints for uploading, listing, and deleting ontology files used during
      cognify.
  - name: permissions
    description: Permission management for multi-user access control.
  - name: recall
    description: >-
      Endpoints for querying the knowledge graph and reviewing past recall
      history.
  - name: remember
    description: >-
      Endpoints for ingesting data into the knowledge graph and storing session
      memory entries.
  - name: responses
    description: Response generation endpoints using the knowledge graph.
  - name: schema
    description: >-
      Schema inspection endpoints for a dataset's derived schema inventory and
      the caller-wide memory provenance graph.
  - name: search
    description: Search endpoints for querying the knowledge graph.
  - name: sessions
    description: >-
      Endpoints for listing sessions and reporting usage, cost, and token
      statistics.
  - name: settings
    description: Configuration endpoints for managing Cognee settings.
  - name: skills
    description: >-
      Skill management endpoints for ingesting, listing, retrieving, and
      deleting dataset skills, plus read-only retrieval of improvement
      proposals.
  - name: slack
    description: >-
      Endpoints for listing workspace channels, setting channel allowlists, and
      linking Slack accounts.
  - name: sync
    description: Endpoints for syncing local data to Cognee Cloud and checking sync status.
  - name: update
    description: Endpoint for updating existing data in a dataset.
  - name: users
    description: User management endpoints.
  - name: validate
    description: >-
      Diagnostic endpoint for checking consistency between a dataset's graph and
      vector stores.
  - name: visualize
    description: Graph visualization endpoints.
paths:
  /api/v1/permissions/roles:
    post:
      tags:
        - permissions
      summary: Create Role
      description: >-
        Create a new role.


        This endpoint creates a new role with the specified name. Roles are used

        to group permissions and can be assigned to users to manage access
        control

        more efficiently. The authenticated user becomes the owner of the
        created role.


        ## Request Parameters

        - **role_name** (str): The name of the role to create


        ## Response

        Returns a success message indicating the role was created.


        ## Error Codes

        - **400 Bad Request**: Invalid role name or role already exists

        - **500 Internal Server Error**: Error creating the role
      operationId: create_role_api_v1_permissions_roles_post
      parameters:
        - name: role_name
          in: query
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            description: >-
              Name of the role to create. Must be unique within the caller's
              tenant.
            examples:
              - engineering
            title: Role Name
          description: >-
            Name of the role to create. Must be unique within the caller's
            tenant.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
      security:
        - BearerAuth: []
        - ApiKeyAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
        input:
          title: Input
        ctx:
          type: object
          title: Context
      type: object
      required:
        - loc
        - msg
        - type
      title: ValidationError
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Api-Key

````