Scopes

Every endpoint in the v1 API declares the scope a caller must hold to invoke it. Scopes are enforced uniformly for both API keys and OAuth access tokens by the requireApiScope middleware – the API never trusts a token’s tenant binding alone, and a request that lacks the required scope returns 403 scope_insufficient.

The required scope for each endpoint is shown in the API Reference.

Catalog

Scopes fall into three groups: per-resource CRUD, workflow actions, and meta scopes.

Resource scopes

10 resource families × 3 actions = 30 scopes. :read lets you list and fetch; :write lets you create and update; :delete lets you soft-delete. :write does not include :delete.

Resource	Read	Write	Delete
Contacts	contacts:read	contacts:write	contacts:delete
Leads	leads:read	leads:write	leads:delete
Projects	projects:read	projects:write	projects:delete
Bids	bids:read	bids:write	bids:delete
Pay applications	pay_apps:read	pay_apps:write	pay_apps:delete
Change orders	change_orders:read	change_orders:write	change_orders:delete
Site logs	site_logs:read	site_logs:write	site_logs:delete
Time entries	time_entries:read	time_entries:write	time_entries:delete
Products	products:read	products:write	products:delete
Documents	documents:read	documents:write	documents:delete

Workflow scopes

State transitions and side-effecting actions get their own dedicated scopes – separate from :write – so you can grant edit access without granting the ability to send a customer email or move a pay app through approval.

Scope	What it allows
bids:send	Email a bid to a customer from the associated user account.
bids:accept_reject	Transition bids to accepted or rejected.
pay_apps:approve	Move pay apps through the approval workflow.
pay_apps:mark_paid	Confirm payment of an approved pay application – manager only.
change_orders:approve	Approve or reject change orders.

Meta scopes

Scope	What it allows
users:read	List users in your organization (name, email, role).
webhooks:manage	Create, update, and delete webhook endpoints.
jobs:read	Check status and download results of async jobs the caller initiated.
jobs:write	Enqueue CSV imports/exports, PDFs, bulk ops; cancel or delete jobs.
audit:read	Read API audit log entries and consumption metrics for the calling tenant.
settings:read	Read organization-wide configuration such as project templates.
settings:write	Manage organization-wide configuration such as project templates. Admin-only.
offline_access	Issue an OAuth refresh token so the app can stay connected without re-prompting.

Scope intersected with role (OAuth)

When an OAuth client requests a scope, the user authorizing it can only grant scopes their own tenant role permits. A viewer consenting to your contacts:write request will only grant contacts:read – their role doesn’t allow writes anywhere.

Concretely:

• The granted scope set is the intersection of what the client requested and what the user’s role can delegate.
• Inspect scope on the token response to see what was actually granted.
• Degrade gracefully when a scope you wanted is missing.

See OAuth 2.1 for the full flow.

Enforcement

Every v1 route is wrapped in requireApiScope("..."). When you call a route:

1. The bearer token is validated and bound to a tenant.
2. The required scope is checked against the token’s granted scopes.
3. If the scope is missing, the request fails with 403 scope_insufficient – it never reaches the handler.

For API keys, the granted scopes are whatever the admin selected at key-creation time. For OAuth tokens, they’re the role-intersected subset granted at consent.

Note

offline_access is OAuth-specific – it’s the signal that a refresh token should be issued alongside the access token. API keys don’t expire and don’t need it.

Choosing scopes

For OAuth clients, request the smallest set that covers your features. Users are far more likely to consent to contacts:read leads:read than to a sprawling list. You can always re-prompt for additional scopes later if a new feature needs them.

For API keys, the same principle applies – a reporting script doesn’t need :delete scopes, and a webhook receiver doesn’t need any scopes at all (delivery doesn’t authenticate to your token).