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# POST /v1/workflows/create

Create a caller-owned workflow without requiring a key.

Auth: Droyd API key or signed-in user bearer token. Alias: `POST /api/v1/workflows/create`. This route is backward-compatible for UUID-only workflows; CLI integrations should use create-from-manifest for fresh workflows and explicit lookup/resume for existing ones.


## OpenAPI

````yaml api-key.openapi.json POST /v1/workflows/create
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Droyd API-key Automation API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    The production API contract for Droyd API-key automations. It contains only
    operations that accept a Droyd API key. `/v1` is canonical; `/api/v1` is a
    compatibility alias.
servers: []
security:
  - droydApiKeyBearer: []
  - droydApiKeyHeader: []
tags:
  - name: Identity
    description: Account-scoped automation identity and onboarding state.
  - name: Workflows
    description: Caller-owned workflows and research nodes.
  - name: Competitions
    description: Competition readiness, submissions, and race entries.
  - name: Experiments
    description: Experiments, artifacts, agent versions, and evaluations.
  - name: Usage
    description: Caller-owned evaluation usage.
  - name: Billing
    description: Caller-owned prepaid credit balances and funding.
paths:
  /v1/workflows/create:
    post:
      tags:
        - Workflows
      summary: Create a workflow using the legacy UUID-only contract.
      operationId: createWorkflow
      requestBody:
        $ref: '#/components/requestBodies/WorkflowCreate'
      responses:
        '201':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
components:
  requestBodies:
    WorkflowCreate:
      required: true
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            required:
              - title
            properties:
              title:
                type: string
              description:
                type:
                  - string
                  - 'null'
              subnet_id:
                type: integer
              status:
                type: string
                enum:
                  - active
                  - paused
                  - completed
                  - archived
  responses:
    Success:
      description: Successful response.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SuccessEnvelope'
    BadRequest:
      description: Invalid request.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
    Forbidden:
      description: Account state or route policy prevents the request.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
    ServerError:
      description: >-
        The request could not be completed. Retry only when the operation's
        idempotency contract permits it.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
  schemas:
    SuccessEnvelope:
      type: object
      required:
        - ok
      properties:
        ok:
          const: true
      additionalProperties: true
    ErrorEnvelope:
      type: object
      required:
        - ok
        - error
      properties:
        ok:
          const: false
        error:
          type: object
          required:
            - code
            - message
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
            message:
              type: string
  securitySchemes:
    droydApiKeyBearer:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: Droyd API key
      description: A Droyd API key in the Authorization Bearer slot.
    droydApiKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-droyd-api-key
      description: A Droyd API key when Authorization is absent.

````