# Create action item (/docs/api/action-items/create-action-item)

## OpenAPI

```json
{
  "info": {
    "description": "The Circleback public REST API provides programmatic access to your meetings, notes, action items, transcripts, and more. Authenticate every request by sending your API key as a bearer token.",
    "title": "Circleback Public API",
    "version": "1.0.0"
  },
  "openapi": "3.2.0",
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://circleback.ai/api"
    }
  ],
  "components": {
    "securitySchemes": {
      "ApiKeyAuth": {
        "bearerFormat": "cb_<secret>",
        "scheme": "bearer",
        "type": "http"
      }
    }
  },
  "tags": [
    {
      "description": "Read and update action items captured from meetings.",
      "name": "Action items"
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/action-items": {
      "post": {
        "description": "Creates an unassigned action item owned by the authenticated user without linking it to a meeting. Title and description are required.",
        "requestBody": {
          "content": {
            "application/json": {
              "schema": {
                "additionalProperties": false,
                "properties": {
                  "title": {
                    "description": "The title of the action item.",
                    "minLength": 1,
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "description": {
                    "description": "The detailed description of the action item.",
                    "minLength": 1,
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "title",
                  "description"
                ],
                "type": "object"
              }
            }
          },
          "required": true
        },
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "additionalProperties": false,
                  "properties": {
                    "id": {
                      "description": "The unique identifier of the action item.",
                      "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
                      "type": "number"
                    },
                    "title": {
                      "description": "The title of the action item.",
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "description": {
                      "description": "The detailed description of the action item.",
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "assignee": {
                      "description": "Action item assignee, or null if unassigned.",
                      "anyOf": [
                        {
                          "additionalProperties": false,
                          "properties": {
                            "profileId": {
                              "description": "The unique identifier of the person's profile.",
                              "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
                              "type": "number"
                            },
                            "name": {
                              "anyOf": [
                                {
                                  "type": "string"
                                },
                                {
                                  "type": "null"
                                }
                              ],
                              "description": "The person's full name."
                            },
                            "title": {
                              "anyOf": [
                                {
                                  "type": "string"
                                },
                                {
                                  "type": "null"
                                }
                              ],
                              "description": "The person's job title."
                            },
                            "companyName": {
                              "anyOf": [
                                {
                                  "type": "string"
                                },
                                {
                                  "type": "null"
                                }
                              ],
                              "description": "The name of the company the person belongs to."
                            },
                            "email": {
                              "anyOf": [
                                {
                                  "type": "string"
                                },
                                {
                                  "type": "null"
                                }
                              ],
                              "description": "The person's email address."
                            }
                          },
                          "required": [
                            "profileId",
                            "name",
                            "email",
                            "title",
                            "companyName"
                          ],
                          "type": "object"
                        },
                        {
                          "type": "null"
                        }
                      ],
                      "example": {
                        "profileId": 1,
                        "name": "John Appleseed",
                        "title": "Head of Operations",
                        "companyName": "Initech",
                        "email": "john@initech.com"
                      }
                    },
                    "canEditActionItem": {
                      "type": "boolean"
                    },
                    "completedAt": {
                      "anyOf": [
                        {
                          "format": "date-time",
                          "type": "string"
                        },
                        {
                          "type": "null"
                        }
                      ],
                      "description": "The time the action item was marked as done, or null if it is not completed."
                    },
                    "status": {
                      "description": "The completion status of the action item.",
                      "enum": [
                        "PENDING",
                        "DONE"
                      ],
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "meetingIds": {
                      "description": "The IDs of the associated meetings you can access. Empty if the action item has no accessible meetings.",
                      "items": {
                        "type": "string"
                      },
                      "type": "array"
                    },
                    "meetings": {
                      "items": {
                        "additionalProperties": false,
                        "properties": {
                          "id": {
                            "description": "Circleback meeting ID. Can be used to generate a link to the meeting (`https://circleback.ai/meetings/${id}`).",
                            "type": "string"
                          },
                          "name": {
                            "anyOf": [
                              {
                                "type": "string"
                              },
                              {
                                "type": "null"
                              }
                            ],
                            "description": "Meeting name."
                          },
                          "createdAt": {
                            "description": "Meeting creation date, formatted as an ISO 8601 timestamp.",
                            "format": "date-time",
                            "type": "string"
                          }
                        },
                        "required": [
                          "createdAt",
                          "id",
                          "name"
                        ],
                        "type": "object"
                      },
                      "type": "array"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "id",
                    "completedAt",
                    "title",
                    "description",
                    "status",
                    "meetingIds",
                    "assignee"
                  ],
                  "type": "object"
                }
              }
            },
            "description": "Successful response."
          },
          "400": {
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "additionalProperties": false,
                  "properties": {
                    "code": {
                      "description": "A machine-readable code identifying the type of failure.",
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "error": {
                      "description": "A human-readable message explaining why the request failed.",
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "seatsToAdd": {
                      "description": "The authoritative number of workspace seats required.",
                      "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
                      "type": "integer"
                    },
                    "issues": {
                      "description": "The field-level validation issues found in an invalid request.",
                      "items": {
                        "additionalProperties": false,
                        "properties": {
                          "message": {
                            "description": "A human-readable explanation of the validation failure.",
                            "type": "string"
                          },
                          "path": {
                            "description": "The location of the request field that failed validation.",
                            "type": "string"
                          }
                        },
                        "required": [
                          "path",
                          "message"
                        ],
                        "type": "object"
                      },
                      "type": "array"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "error"
                  ],
                  "type": "object"
                }
              }
            },
            "description": "The request failed validation."
          },
          "429": {
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/paths/~1action-items/post/responses/400/content/application~1json/schema"
                }
              }
            },
            "description": "The request exceeded the rate limit for the account's plan, which the error message names: 3 requests per second and 20 per minute on Free, 20 per second and 300 per minute on Pro, Business, and Enterprise. Retry after the number of seconds in the `Retry-After` header."
          }
        },
        "security": [
          {
            "ApiKeyAuth": []
          }
        ],
        "summary": "Create action item",
        "tags": [
          "Action items"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}
```