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Workflows

Create workflow folder

Create a workflow folder at a non-root path with workspace write access. Workspace folder trees exceeding 10,000 folders return `413`. OAuth scope: `api:write`.

POST/api/v2/workflows/folders

Create a workflow folder at a non-root path with workspace write access. Workspace folder trees exceeding 10,000 folders return 413.

OAuth scope: api:write.

Authentication

Send a personal or workspace API key in X-API-Key. See key types and access; operations that reject workspace keys say so in their description.

Send X-API-Key in the request header.

Alternatively

Send a Sim OAuth access token in Authorization: Bearer. See OAuth authentication and scopes.

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN

Required scopes: api:write

OAuth flows
json
{
  "authorizationCode": {
    "authorizationUrl": "https://www.sim.ai/api/auth/oauth2/authorize",
    "tokenUrl": "https://www.sim.ai/api/auth/oauth2/token",
    "refreshUrl": "https://www.sim.ai/api/auth/oauth2/token",
    "scopes": {
      "api:read": "Read your workspaces, workflows, files, tables, and logs",
      "api:write": "Read, create, change, run, and delete resources in your workspaces",
      "offline_access": "Stay signed in without asking again"
    }
  }
}

OAuth scope: api:write.

Request body

Required

Workspace and canonical path for a new workflow folder.

object

Workspace and canonical path for a new workflow folder.

2 fields
workspaceIdstringRequired

Workspace in which to create the folder.

minLength
1
maxLength
128
pathstringRequired

Path of the folder to create.

maxLength
4096

Additional properties are not allowed.

Request example 1

json
{
  "workspaceId": "a91c4b2e-6d3f-4e8a-b5c7-0d9e2f1a8c64",
  "path": "/Operations"
}

Responses

201

The created workflow folder.

object

The created workflow folder.

1 field
dataobjectRequired

Response data.

6 fields
namestringRequired

Folder name.

pathstringRequired

Canonical folder path used as the public folder identifier.

maxLength
4096
parentPathstringRequired

Canonical parent path; / is the root.

maxLength
4096
createdAtstringRequired

ISO 8601 timestamp when the folder was created.

format
date-time
updatedAtstringRequired

ISO 8601 timestamp when the folder was last updated.

format
date-time
lockedbooleanRequired

Whether the folder is currently locked for mutation.

Additional properties are not allowed.

Additional properties are not allowed.

Response example 1

json
{
  "data": {
    "name": "Operations",
    "path": "/Operations",
    "parentPath": "/",
    "createdAt": "2026-05-01T09:00:00.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-01T09:00:00.000Z",
    "locked": false
  }
}

Response headers

X-RateLimit-Limitinteger

Maximum requests allowed in the current window.

minimum
0
maximum
9007199254740991
X-RateLimit-Remaininginteger

Requests remaining in the current window.

minimum
0
maximum
9007199254740991
X-RateLimit-Resetstring

ISO 8601 timestamp when the current rate-limit window resets.

format
date-time
pattern
^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d(?::[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?)?(?:Z))$
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