Exchange the signed-in person's session for a token in one personal view

POST /api/auth/views/{view}/session

Exchange the signed-in person's session for a token in one personal view — reporting, the B2B order form, the support desk, the ops board or the back office — which the view's app carries on every call: the person's own claims with the view, whose ceiling every service narrows their roles by.

403 ViewNotOpened when their roles do not open the view, 400 ViewNeedsStation for a station's view (those open by unlocking an enrolled station), 403 NoActiveOrganization when the session names no organization the person still reaches, 404 UnknownView for a view there is not. Appends nothing: a mint changes no state, and the sign-in it is minted from was journalled when it happened. No idempotency key: a retry mints another short-lived token and appends nothing.

Access

Requires a signed-in session: The signed-in person's own session, in the organization it is active in; the view's app calls it after sign-in

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

Retries

No idempotency key: a retry mints another short-lived token and appends nothing.

Why every write carries a key: Idempotency and retries.

Facts appended

None. This call records nothing in a journal.

What a fact is: Facts and the journal.

AI agent tool

No agent tool. Opening a session in a view mints a token for that view's app after a person signs in; a token is never handed to an agent, whose own session is the MCP exchange.

Connecting an agent: AI agents.

Example

From Set up a station and unlock it with a PIN, step 8: Open the reporting view.

curl

curl -X POST 'https://auth.getmanifold.io/api/auth/views/reporting/session' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MANIFOLD_TOKEN"

JavaScript (fetch)

const response = await fetch("https://auth.getmanifold.io/api/auth/views/reporting/session", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MANIFOLD_TOKEN}` },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);
const answer = await response.json();

Response · 200 · application/json

{
  "token": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSJ9.eyJ2aWV3IjoicmVwb3J0aW5nIn0.dmlldy1zZXNzaW9u",
  "expiresAt": "2026-08-17T09:15:00.000Z",
  "tenantId": "org_01a1586e-f9f6-7a8b-9c7d-6e5f4a3b2c1d",
  "userId": "usr_01a15869-1d2e-7f3a-8b4c-5d6e7f8a9b0c",
  "view": "reporting"
}

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
`ViewNeedsStation` view	The request was refused, and nothing changed.	Fix the request. Sending it again unchanged gets the same answer.

`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
`ViewNotOpened` view	Their roles do not open the view.	The caller may not do this. Use a token whose roles allow it.
`NoActiveOrganization`	The session names no organization the person still reaches.	The caller may not do this. Use a token whose roles allow 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
`UnknownView` view	No such record in this organization.	Check the id in the path or the body.

`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.

Used in

Set up a station and unlock it with a PIN, step 8: Open the reporting view