Create a work item from a template

POST/api/v2/workspaces/{slug}/projects/{project_id}/work-item-templates/{pk}/use/

Project work item templates pre-fill new work items in one project. Create a work item from this template in one call.

The new work item takes the template's name, description_html, and priority, and starts in the state Plane gives any new work item in the project. No other template values are applied. The response is the new work item in the same shape as Create a work item, including description_html and custom_fields.

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.

pk:requiredstring (uuid)

The id of the work item template to use.

Body Parameters

name:optionalstring

A name for the new work item. Omit it to use the template's name.

project_id:optionalstring (uuid)

Accepted but not used. The work item is always created in the project in the path.

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: archived_at, assignee_ids, completed_at, created_at, created_by_id, custom_fields, cycle_id, description_html, estimate_point_id, external_id, external_source, id, identifier, is_draft, label_ids, module_ids, name, parent_id, priority, project_id, sequence_id, sort_order, start_date, state_id, target_date, type_id, updated_at, updated_by_id.

expand:optionalstring

Comma-separated relations to embed: assignees, cycle, estimate_point, labels, modules, parent, state, type.

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

templates.work_items:write

Errors

Status	Code	Cause
400	invalid_request	The request body or a query parameter failed validation.
401	unauthorized	Missing or invalid credentials.
402	payment_required	The feature this endpoint belongs to isn't enabled on your plan or is switched off.
403	forbidden	Your role or token scope doesn't allow this.
404	not_found	No such template, it's outside your project or tenant, or the template has no work item content.
406	not_acceptable	The Accept header asks for a representation the API can't produce.
409	governance_migration_in_progress	A governance migration is running in this workspace, so writes are paused. Retry after it finishes.
413	payload_too_large	The request body is over the size limit.
415	unsupported_media_type	The Content-Type isn't one this endpoint accepts.
429	rate_limited	Throttled. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying.

Create a work item from a template

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/work-item-templates/9c1f0b3d-6d2e-4c9a-8b41-2f7e5a0d6c88/use/" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "name": "Checkout times out on slow networks"
}'

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/work-item-templates/9c1f0b3d-6d2e-4c9a-8b41-2f7e5a0d6c88/use/",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": "your-api-key"},
    json={
        "name": "Checkout times out on slow networks",
    },
)
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/work-item-templates/9c1f0b3d-6d2e-4c9a-8b41-2f7e5a0d6c88/use/",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "X-Api-Key": "your-api-key",
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      name: "Checkout times out on slow networks",
    }),
  },
);
const data = await response.json();

Response201

{
  "id": "6d3f8a21-c47b-4e09-9b5d-2a1e7c4f8b36",
  "name": "Checkout times out on slow networks",
  "description_html": "<h3>Steps to reproduce</h3><ol><li></li></ol><h3>Expected</h3><p></p><h3>Actual</h3><p></p>",
  "identifier": "PROJ-158",
  "sequence_id": 158,
  "priority": "medium",
  "project_id": "4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b",
  "state_id": "2c4d16f8-9b3e-4a52-8d71-1f0e6c9a5b48",
  "type_id": null,
  "assignee_ids": [],
  "label_ids": [],
  "cycle_id": null,
  "module_ids": [],
  "parent_id": null,
  "estimate_point_id": null,
  "start_date": null,
  "target_date": null,
  "is_draft": false,
  "sort_order": 75535.0,
  "completed_at": null,
  "archived_at": null,
  "external_id": null,
  "external_source": null,
  "created_at": "2026-01-22T13:05:48.640219Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-01-22T13:05:48.640219Z",
  "created_by_id": "16c61a3a-512a-48ac-b0be-b6b46fe6f430",
  "updated_by_id": null,
  "custom_fields": {}
}