# create

URL: /business/nouns/integration/create · Id: `verb:Integration.create` · Call: `await $.Integration.create({ … })` (SDK) or the `do` tool at `https://api.sb/mcp`. Inputs says what to pass, Outputs what returns, When it waits who approves.

> Creates an Integration.

Create makes a new [Integration](/business/nouns/integration) from the inputs below. It is inherited: every [Noun](/business/nouns/noun) has `get`, `list`, `create`, `update` and `delete`.

## Inputs
| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `acquired` | `string` | Yes | One of `owned`, `wrapped`, or `recruited`. |
| `terms` | `text` | No | The terms the Startup holds the right to use and resell it under. |
| `scope` | `string` | Yes | One of `studio`, `startup`, or `customer`. |
| `sync` | `string` | No | Which side leads a sync connector: `platform` or `provider`. |
| `mode` | `string` | Yes | How records move: `mirror` writes db.sb out to the outside tool; `import` turns edits there into Changes. db.sb is the record in both. |
| `venue` | `string` | No | The id of the ad, social or app-store venue the account is on, when it is on one. |
| `account` | `string` | No | The outside account’s own id, such as an ad account, a workspace or a repository. |
| `grants` | `string[]` | No | The outside permissions the account holder approved: the narrowest set its Verbs need. |
| `connectedBy` | [Party](/business/nouns/party) | No | Who approved the connection; a Human’s own account is used only under that Human’s Mandate. |
| `environment` | `string` | No | A `test` Integration reaches only the upstream’s test account, as a Stripe test account does. |
| `expiresAt` | `datetime` | No | When access lapses unless refreshed. |
| `refreshedAt` | `datetime` | No | When the platform last renewed the outside token. |
| `lastError` | `string` | No | The error slug of the last failed call or refresh, cleared by the next success. |
| `cursor` | `string` | No | Where the last sync run stopped, so the next run reads only what changed. |
| `system` | [System](/business/nouns/system) | No | An Integration connects an outside Source to one System, with credentials at Studio, Startup or Customer scope. |

## Outputs
| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `integration` | [Integration](/business/nouns/integration) | Yes | The Integration. |

## Effects
- Emits `Integration.created`.
- Two-way: `try`, `send`, `do`.

## Refuses when
| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | [Integration.create](/business/nouns/integration/create) |

## When it waits
| Gate | Default |
| --- | --- |
| Decision class | Low: two-way, nothing at stake |
| [Delay window](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/one-way-windows) | None: it runs once review passes. |
| Limit | The call [Limit](/business/nouns/limit) of the [Permission](/business/nouns/permission) it runs under. |
| Over the Limit | It waits `pending` for an [Approval](/business/nouns/approval) from the [Founder](/agents/founding/founder). Approved, it runs; refused, it ends `refused` with [`limit-exceeded`](/code/api/errors/limit-exceeded); unanswered by its deadline, it ends `canceled`. |

## Example

**Ask**

```text
Add an integration to Kiln Bakery.
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/kilnbakery.com/integrations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"acquired":"owned","scope":"studio","mode":"mirror"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/kilnbakery.com",
  "integration": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/kilnbakery.com/integrations/integration_1",
    "$type": "Integration",
    "acquired": "owned",
    "scope": "studio",
    "mode": "mirror",
    "state": "connecting"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/kilnbakery.com/actions/action_1",
    "operation": "Integration.create",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/kilnbakery.com/actions/action_1"
  }
}
```

**SDK**

```ts
import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

const integration = await $.Integration.create({ acquired: 'owned', scope: 'studio', mode: 'mirror' })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Integration.create --json '{"acquired":"owned","scope":"studio","mode":"mirror"}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Integration.create({ acquired: 'owned', scope: 'studio', mode: 'mirror' })"
  }
}
```