> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.parley.so/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a task > Create a task, optionally about one project, account, or contact, with a status (todo unless given), assignee, due date, and description. Pass reminder to have Parley remind the caller about it. ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://api.parley.so/openapi.json post /tasks openapi: 3.1.1 info: title: Parley API version: 1.0.0 description: >- Manage Parley's projects (matters or cases), accounts (client organizations), contacts (people), tasks, custom fields, notes, files, activity, automations, and skills. Records refer to each other as { type, id, name } references; writes take IDs. Errors are { error: { code, message, details } }, where code names what went wrong and each operation lists the codes it can return. In a query string, write a timestamp's offset as Z or %2B, because a raw + arrives as a space. The MCP server at /mcp offers the same data as a smaller set of tools. servers: - url: https://api.parley.so/v1 security: - bearerAuth: [] tags: - name: Projects description: >- A project is a matter or case: it groups the files, notes, activity, and tasks for one engagement, and links to the accounts and contacts it involves. - name: Accounts description: >- An account is a client organization. Contacts belong to it, and projects link to it. - name: Contacts description: >- A contact is a person, optionally belonging to one account and linked to projects. - name: Tasks description: >- A task is a to-do with a status, assignee, and due date, optionally about one project, account, or contact. - name: Fields description: >- Custom fields defined for projects, accounts, contacts, or tasks. Records carry their values in fields, keyed by field name. - name: Notes description: >- Markdown notes on a project, account, or contact. Updates take the version you last read, so concurrent edits fail with 409 VERSION_CONFLICT instead of overwriting. - name: Files description: >- Files and folders of a project, account, contact, or intake, or the organization's Library. Add a file by creating an upload, PUTting its bytes, and adding the upload to a location. - name: Activity description: >- What happened across the organization or on one record: changes, links, notes, files, USCIS case updates, and synced emails and meetings. Each item's kind says which details it carries. - name: Sessions description: >- Conversations with Parley's assistant, from the web app, Word, Outlook, automation runs, and the API. Start one with a message, follow up or steer it while it works, and read its replies. - name: Automations description: >- Instructions Parley's assistant carries out on a schedule, as the person who created them, with nobody present. - name: Skills description: >- Reusable playbooks for Parley's assistant: a SKILL.md plus optional bundled documents, addressed by slug. - name: Users description: The people in your organization, and the caller. paths: /tasks: post: tags: - Tasks summary: Create a task description: >- Create a task, optionally about one project, account, or contact, with a status (todo unless given), assignee, due date, and description. Pass reminder to have Parley remind the caller about it. operationId: createTask requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: title: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 500 description: Task title. status: enum: - todo - in_progress - done - cancelled type: string description: Defaults to todo. assigneeId: type: string minLength: 1 description: >- The ID of an active user in the organization to assign it to. dueDate: type: string format: date description: The day the task is due, as YYYY-MM-DD. description: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 2000 description: Details, up to 2,000 characters. linkedRecord: type: object properties: type: enum: - project - account - contact type: string description: 'The kind of record: project, account, or contact.' id: type: string minLength: 1 description: The record's ID. required: - type - id additionalProperties: false description: >- The project, account, or contact the task is about, as { type, id }. A project must be one you can edit. reminder: type: object properties: remindAt: type: string format: date-time description: >- When Parley should remind you, through your notification settings. An ISO 8601 date-time in the future. required: - remindAt additionalProperties: false description: Your reminder for the task, as { remindAt }. fields: type: object propertyNames: type: string minLength: 1 additionalProperties: anyOf: - type: string - type: number - type: boolean - type: array items: type: string - type: object properties: streetAddress: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' cityTown: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' state: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' country: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' additionalProperties: false - type: 'null' description: >- Custom field values to set on the task, keyed by field name or ID. A value replaces the current one, null clears it, and fields you don't mention are left alone. Each value must match its field's type: a string for text, long_text, email, url, single_select (one of the field's options), and user (the id of an active user in the organization); a number; true or false; an ISO 8601 date-time or YYYY-MM-DD date; a list of strings for collection ([] clears it); or { streetAddress, cityTown, state, country } for address. At most 50 fields. Status, assignee, due date, and description are properties of the task, not fields. required: - title additionalProperties: false responses: '201': description: Created. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Task' headers: Location: description: The URL of the created resource. schema: type: string '400': description: >- The request was invalid. VALIDATION_FAILED, INVALID_REFERENCE, INVALID_FIELD_VALUES. content: application/json: schema: oneOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationFailedError' - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidReferenceError' - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidFieldValuesError' '401': description: Missing or invalid credentials. UNAUTHORIZED. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedError' '403': description: You don't have permission. FORBIDDEN. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ForbiddenError' '429': description: Too many requests, or a usage limit was reached. TOO_MANY_REQUESTS. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TooManyRequestsError' components: schemas: Task: type: object properties: id: type: string minLength: 1 description: The task ID. title: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 500 description: Task title. status: anyOf: - enum: - todo - in_progress - done - cancelled type: string description: >- Where the task stands: todo, in_progress, done, or cancelled. done and cancelled close it. - type: 'null' description: >- Where the task stands: todo, in_progress, done, or cancelled, or null when it has no status. done and cancelled close it. assignee: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserRef' - type: 'null' description: The person the task is assigned to, or null. dueDate: anyOf: - type: string format: date description: The day the task is due, as YYYY-MM-DD. - type: 'null' description: The day the task is due, as YYYY-MM-DD, or null. description: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' description: Details, or null. linkedRecord: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordRef' - type: 'null' description: The project, account, or contact the task is about, or null. reminder: anyOf: - type: object properties: remindAt: type: string format: date-time description: When Parley reminds you, through your notification settings. sentAt: anyOf: - type: string format: date-time - type: 'null' description: When the reminder was sent, or null until then. required: - remindAt - sentAt - type: 'null' description: >- Your reminder for the task, or null. Reminders are personal: each person sees only their own. createdAt: type: string format: date-time description: When the task was created. updatedAt: type: string format: date-time description: >- When the task was last renamed or linked to a different record. Changes to its status, assignee, due date, description, field values, and reminders do not change it. fields: type: object propertyNames: type: string additionalProperties: anyOf: - type: string - type: number - type: boolean - type: array items: type: string - type: object properties: streetAddress: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' cityTown: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' state: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' country: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' required: - streetAddress - cityTown - state - country description: A postal address. Each part is a string or null. - type: 'null' description: >- Custom field values, keyed by field name, with a key for every field defined for tasks (null when unset). The value's shape follows the field's type. Status, assignee, due date, and description are properties of the task, not fields. required: - id - title - status - assignee - dueDate - description - linkedRecord - reminder - createdAt - updatedAt - fields ValidationFailedError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: VALIDATION_FAILED message: type: string examples: - The request is invalid. details: type: object properties: issues: type: array items: type: object properties: path: type: string description: >- Where the problem is, as a dotted path into the input such as accountIds.add.0 or reminder.remindAt. Empty for the input as a whole. message: type: string description: What is wrong with the value. required: - path - message description: Each problem with the input. required: - issues required: - code - message - details required: - error InvalidReferenceError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: INVALID_REFERENCE message: type: string examples: - >- The request refers to a record or user that doesn't exist or that you can't use. details: type: object properties: field: type: string description: The input that holds the reference, such as accountIds. ids: type: array items: type: string description: The IDs that could not be used. required: - field - ids required: - code - message - details required: - error InvalidFieldValuesError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: INVALID_FIELD_VALUES message: type: string examples: - Some custom field values were not accepted. details: type: object properties: unknownFields: type: array items: type: string description: Keys that are not the name or ID of a field. readOnlyFields: type: array items: type: string description: Fields Parley maintains, which cannot be set. duplicateFields: type: array items: type: string description: Keys that set a field another key already sets. invalidValues: type: array items: type: object properties: field: type: string description: The name or ID the value was given under. expected: type: string description: What the field accepts. required: - field - expected required: - unknownFields - readOnlyFields - duplicateFields - invalidValues required: - code - message - details required: - error UnauthorizedError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: UNAUTHORIZED message: type: string examples: - Missing or invalid credentials. required: - code - message required: - error ForbiddenError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: FORBIDDEN message: type: string examples: - You don't have permission to do this. required: - code - message required: - error TooManyRequestsError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: TOO_MANY_REQUESTS message: type: string examples: - Too many requests. required: - code - message required: - error UserRef: type: object properties: id: type: string description: The user's ID. name: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' description: >- The user's full name, or null when it is unknown, as for someone who has left the organization. email: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' description: The user's email address, or null when it is unknown. required: - id - name - email description: A reference to a person in the organization. RecordRef: type: object properties: type: enum: - project - account - contact type: string description: 'The kind of record: project, account, or contact.' id: type: string description: Its ID. name: type: string description: >- The record's name. A contact's is its first and last name, or an email address when it has no name. required: - type - id - name description: A reference to a project, account, or contact. securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: A Parley API key. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.