Replace one member's assigned roles with roles — the whole set, not a change to it

PUT /api/auth/roles/{organizationId}/{userId}

The member's next token carries them (an open admin re-mints the moment the fact is published). Governance is membership, never assigned: an owner or admin holds every scope whatever is stored here. 400 InvalidRoles for a name that is not an assignable role or one named twice, 404 NotAMember for a person outside the organization, 403 AdminRequired for anyone but an owner or admin, 403 GrantExceedsYours (naming the excess scopes and views) for roles reaching beyond what the assigner holds themselves — no one grants more than they hold. Appends auth.member-roles-changed. Idempotent by content: assigning the set the member already holds, in any order, is acknowledged and appends nothing.

Access

Requires a signed-in session: An active owner or admin of the organization, checked against its membership by the route (the person's BetterAuth session)

How scopes come from roles: Scopes and roles. Getting a token: Authentication and app tokens.

Retries

Idempotent by content: assigning the set the member already holds, in any order, is acknowledged and appends nothing.

Why every write carries a key: Idempotency and retries.

Facts appended

auth.member-roles-changed

What a fact is: Facts and the journal.

AI agent tool

No agent tool. Assigning roles decides what every member may do: an owner's or admin's decision in Settings › Users, never an agent's — an agent must not widen its own person's reach.

Connecting an agent: AI agents.

Example

curl

curl -X PUT 'https://auth.getmanifold.io/api/auth/roles/org_01a156d2-8680-7738-ab2e-ff985e454887/usr_01a1600c-9600-70f1-9e3a-5bfd672d5b23' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MANIFOLD_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "roles": [
    "fulfilment",
    "receiving"
  ]
}'

JavaScript (fetch)

const response = await fetch("https://auth.getmanifold.io/api/auth/roles/org_01a156d2-8680-7738-ab2e-ff985e454887/usr_01a1600c-9600-70f1-9e3a-5bfd672d5b23", {
  method: "PUT",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MANIFOLD_TOKEN}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "roles": [
      "fulfilment",
      "receiving"
    ]
  }),
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);
const answer = await response.json();

Request body · application/json

{
  "roles": [
    "fulfilment",
    "receiving"
  ]
}

Response · 200 · application/json

{
  "userId": "usr_01a1600c-9600-70f1-9e3a-5bfd672d5b23",
  "role": "member",
  "roles": [
    "fulfilment",
    "receiving"
  ],
  "effective": [
    "fulfilment",
    "receiving"
  ]
}

The panel writes this call in other languages. It does not send it: Manifold's APIs do not take calls from a web page on another site, so run the call from your own code or terminal. The whole API as OpenAPI: auth-service.openapi.json. Base URL https://auth.getmanifold.io.

Errors

Every refusal is a status and a JSON body whose _tag names it. A refused call changes nothing.

`400`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`InvalidRoles` reason	A role named is not one that can be assigned, or is named twice.	Send each assignable role once.

`401`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`Unauthorized` reason	The token is missing, expired or not one Manifold issued.	Get a fresh token and send the call again.
`TokenAlreadyUsed` tokenId	A single-use app token was already spent.	Mint a new token for this call.

`402`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`SubscriptionRequired` status	The organization's subscription has lapsed, so writes are refused.	An owner settles billing. Reads still work meanwhile.

`403`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`AdminRequired`	Only an owner or admin of the organization may do this.	Ask an owner or admin.
`GrantExceedsYours` scopes, views	The grant would give more than you hold yourself.	Ask an owner or admin to make it.
`TenantRequired` userId	The token names no organization.	Choose the organization, then get a new token.
`ScopeRequired` required	The token's roles do not grant the scope this call needs.	Ask an owner or admin for a role that grants it.

`404`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`NotAMember` userId	The person is not a member of this organization.	Check the organization, or invite them first.

`409`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`MirroredFromSource` source	This area is fed by your source system until the organization goes live.	Make the change in the source system, or go live first.

`503`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`RequestLogUnavailable` tokenId, reason	The service could not record the request, so it did nothing.	Send the same request again shortly.

How refusals work everywhere: Errors.