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# Create graph

POST https://api.getzep.com/api/v4/graphs
Content-Type: application/json

Reference: https://docs-beta.getzep.com/sdk-reference/graph/create

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (required) (prefixed with ` Api-Key  `) — Type "Api-Key" followed by a space and the project API key.

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a v4.CreateGraphRequest.

- `content_policy` (v4.GraphContentPolicyRequest, optional) — Content policy additions for the graph. The graph binds the current project content policy plus these additions, and the binding does not change after creation.
- `description` (string, optional) — A description of the graph.
- `name` (string, optional) — A display name for the graph.
- `time_zone` (string, optional) — The graph's IANA time zone.

## Response

### 201

Created

- `created_at` (string, optional) — The time the graph was created.
- `description` (string, optional) — A description of the graph.
- `graph_id` (string, optional) — The developer-assigned identifier of the graph, present only for standard graphs.
- `name` (string, optional) — The display name of the graph.
- `time_zone` (string, optional) — The graph's IANA time zone.
- `type` (string, optional) — The kind of graph: user for a user's personal graph, or standard for a named graph created directly.
- `updated_at` (string, optional) — The time the graph was last updated.
- `user_uuid` (string, optional) — The unique identifier of the user this graph belongs to, present only for a user graph.
- `uuid` (string, optional) — The unique identifier of the graph.

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `error` (v4.ErrorBody, optional)

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Unauthorized

- `error` (v4.ErrorBody, optional)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Forbidden

- `error` (v4.ErrorBody, optional)

### 404 Not Found Error

Not Found

- `error` (v4.ErrorBody, optional)

### 409 Conflict Error

Conflict

- `error` (v4.ErrorBody, optional)

## Types

### v4.GraphContentPolicyRequest

- `categories` (list of v4.ContentPolicyCategoryRequest, optional) — Categories to add for this graph. A key that the project policy already has is ignored.
- `project_revision` (integer, optional) — When set, the create fails with content_policy_revision_stale unless this is the current project revision.
- `rules` (list of v4.ContentPolicyRuleRequest, optional) — Rules to add for this graph. A rule that the project policy already has, with the same category key and description, is ignored.

### v4.ErrorBody

- `code` (string, optional)
- `details` (map from string to any, optional)
- `message` (string, optional)
- `param` (string, optional)
- `request_id` (string, optional)

### v4.ContentPolicyCategoryRequest

- `description` (string, optional) — What the category covers, in plain language. Maximum 500 characters.
- `key` (string, optional) — A stable key for the category, unique within the policy. Lowercase letters, digits, and underscores; 2 to 64 characters.

### v4.ContentPolicyRuleRequest

- `category_key` (string, optional) — The key of the category this rule belongs to. The category must be in the same policy.
- `description` (string, optional) — The content this rule prohibits, in plain language. Maximum 1000 characters.
- `permitted_examples` (list of string, optional) — Examples of similar content the rule permits. 0 to 8 items, each at most 500 characters.
- `prohibited_examples` (list of string, optional) — Examples of content the rule prohibits. 1 to 8 items, each at most 500 characters.

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "created_at": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "graph_id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "time_zone": "string",
  "type": "string",
  "updated_at": "string",
  "user_uuid": "string",
  "uuid": "string"
}
```