> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.eigenpal.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create folder > Create a folder in the workflow or template tree. `type` is required. Missing parents 404; a same-named sibling at that location returns 409. Nested agent directories in Git are source organization only and are not folders. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /v1/folders openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Eigenpal API version: 1.0.0 description: >- Public REST API for inspecting automations, starting and monitoring runs, managing files, collecting human reviews, and running evaluations. contact: name: Eigenpal url: https://eigenpal.com license: name: Apache-2.0 url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 servers: - url: https://api.eigenpal.com description: Production (canonical API hostname) security: - bearerAuth: [] tags: - name: Metadata description: Authenticate and inspect the current API context. - name: Models description: >- List text, vision, and OCR models configured for the current tenant environment. This is a catalog inventory, not a live provider health probe. - name: Automations description: >- Inspect runnable workflow and agent automations, their versions, triggers, and source sync state. Move YAML workflows between folders and delete automations. - name: Folders description: >- Create and organize workflow and template folders. Deleting a folder unfiles contained workflows or templates and does not delete them. - name: Runs description: >- Start, monitor, retry, review, and debug automation runs, including artifacts. - name: Reviews description: >- Record human review verdicts, manage corrected outputs, and monitor review health. - name: Files description: Upload reusable files for later run or dataset use. - name: Templates description: >- Upload, inspect, version, download, and delete tenant-scoped DOCX and XLSX templates. - name: Email servers description: >- Create and manage outbound email servers for workflow mail. Secrets are encrypted at rest and never returned. - name: Evaluation description: >- Manage datasets, examples, evaluators, experiment batches, evaluator scores, and run promotion workflows. paths: /v1/folders: post: tags: - Folders summary: Create folder description: >- Create a folder in the workflow or template tree. `type` is required. Missing parents 404; a same-named sibling at that location returns 409. Nested agent directories in Git are source organization only and are not folders. operationId: folders.create requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateFolderRequest' responses: '201': description: Created folder content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Folder' '400': description: Validation error. Request shape did not match the spec. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorEnvelope' '401': description: Missing or invalid API key content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorEnvelope' '403': description: API key lacks required scope content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorEnvelope' '404': description: Resource not found content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorEnvelope' '409': description: Conflict. The resource is in a state that forbids the request. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorEnvelope' '413': description: Payload too large. Upload exceeded the per-request size cap. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorEnvelope' '429': description: Rate limit exceeded headers: Retry-After: description: Seconds until the next request may succeed schema: type: string content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorEnvelope' '500': description: Internal server error content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorEnvelope' components: schemas: CreateFolderRequest: type: object properties: name: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 255 description: Folder name. Cannot contain `/`. type: $ref: '#/components/schemas/FolderType' description: Which folder tree to create in. Required; there is no default. parentId: description: Parent folder id. Omit or `null` to create at the tree root. anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' required: - name - type Folder: type: object properties: id: type: string parentId: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' type: $ref: '#/components/schemas/FolderType' name: type: string createdAt: anyOf: - type: string - type: string childCount: description: Direct subfolder count. Present on tree listings. type: integer minimum: -9007199254740991 maximum: 9007199254740991 workflowCount: description: >- Workflows filed directly in this folder. Present on workflow-tree listings. type: integer minimum: -9007199254740991 maximum: 9007199254740991 previewItems: description: >- Up to a handful of item names — subfolders first, then workflows — for a peek at folder contents. Present on workflow-tree listings. type: array items: type: object properties: name: type: string kind: type: string enum: - folder - workflow required: - name - kind additionalProperties: false required: - id - parentId - type - name - createdAt additionalProperties: false ApiErrorEnvelope: type: object properties: issues: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorIssue' requestId: type: string description: Request id echoed via the x-request-id header hint: description: Suggested fix for known error patterns type: string docsUrl: description: Link to relevant docs type: string conflictingWorkflowId: description: >- Present on 409 workflow_name_conflict responses. Id of the workflow that already owns the requested name. type: string required: - issues - requestId additionalProperties: false FolderType: type: string enum: - workflow - template ApiErrorIssue: type: object properties: field: type: string description: JSON path of the offending field, or "" message: type: string description: Human-readable error message code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable error code (e.g. invalid_value, not_found, api_trigger_disabled, manual_trigger_disabled) severity: type: string enum: - error - warning description: Issue severity required: - field - message - code - severity additionalProperties: false securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- API key issued from Settings → API Keys. Pass as `Authorization: Bearer `. ````