# create

URL: /business/nouns/role/create · Id: `verb:Role.create` · Call: `await $.Role.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 a Role.

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

## Inputs
| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | Yes | The title of the seat. |
| `responsibilities` | `text` | No | The work the seat owns. |
| `autonomy` | `json` | No | How much its agent does without asking: a rung, `assist`, `supervised` or `full`, with another rung per decision class where it differs. |
| `team` | [Team](/business/nouns/team) | No | A Team groups the Roles that do one kind of work under one owner. |

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

## Effects
- Emits `Role.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. | [Role.create](/business/nouns/role/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 a role to PetPantry.
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/petpantry.shop/roles \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"PetPantry"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/petpantry.shop",
  "role": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/petpantry.shop/roles/role_1",
    "$type": "Role",
    "name": "PetPantry",
    "status": "vacant"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/petpantry.shop/actions/action_1",
    "operation": "Role.create",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/petpantry.shop/actions/action_1"
  }
}
```

**SDK**

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

const role = await $.Role.create({ name: 'PetPantry' })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Role.create --json '{"name":"PetPantry"}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Role.create({ name: 'PetPantry' })"
  }
}
```

Next: [`Role.staff`](/business/nouns/role/staff) (in `guide:add-a-role`, `guide:add-a-team`).

Guides that call it: [Add a role to the team](/agents/add-a-role), [Add a team](/agents/add-a-team).