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Create a project member ​

POST/api/v2/workspaces/{slug}/projects/{project_id}/members/

Members are the people on a workspace or project, and the role each one holds. Create a project member.

Path Parameters ​

slug:requiredstring

The workspace slug. It appears in your Plane URLs — in https://app.plane.so/my-team/projects/, the slug is my-team.

project_id:requiredstring

The project the resource belongs to. Accepts the project UUID or its bare identifier, for example ENG.

Body Parameters ​

member_id:optionalstring (uuid)

Id of the related member.

role:optionalstring

Role to grant.

Response shaping ​

fields:optionalstring

Comma-separated list of fields to return. Unrequested keys are omitted, not returned as null. id always comes back. Pass all for every requestable field. An unknown name is a 400. See Sparse fields.

Requestable here: id, member_id, role.

expand:optionalstring

Comma-separated relations to embed: member.

Expansion is separate-key — ?expand=state keeps state_id and adds a state object next to it. ?fields= and ?expand= are independent: naming a relation in ?fields= is a 400, and expanded objects survive field filtering. See Expanding relations.

Scopes ​

projects.members:write

Errors ​

StatusCodeCause
400invalid_requestThe request body or a query parameter failed validation.
401unauthorizedMissing or invalid credentials.
402payment_requiredThe feature this endpoint belongs to isn't enabled on your plan or is switched off.
403forbiddenYour role or token scope doesn't allow this.
404not_foundNo such resource, or it's outside your tenant.
406not_acceptableThe Accept header asks for a representation the API can't produce.
409conflictA business rule blocks the write — see the notes above.
413payload_too_largeThe request body is over the size limit.
415unsupported_media_typeThe Content-Type isn't one this endpoint accepts.
429rate_limitedThrottled. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying.
Create a project member
bash
curl -X POST \
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/members/" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "member_id": "f960d3c2-8524-4a41-b8eb-055ce4be2a7f",
  "role": "example"
}'
Response201
json
{
  "id": "b7e42a19-3c5d-4f80-9a26-8d1c0f4e7b53",
  "member_id": "f960d3c2-8524-4a41-b8eb-055ce4be2a7f",
  "role": "example"
}