# Create a manual activity

Creates a manual activity for the client. The server always forces \`source\` to \`manual\` — activities created through the API are manual by definition (the source/operation matrix only permits creating manual activities). A request body that sets \`source\` to anything other than \`manual\` is rejected with \`400 invalid_argument\` rather than silently overridden. \`participants\` is a flat list of email addresses, stored email-only (no display name, no automatic linking to existing contacts). \`occurredAt\` defaults to the current time when omitted.

POST

/`clients`/`{clientId}`/`activities`

## Authorization

`bearerAuth`` `

AuthorizationBearer \<token\>

Salfio API tokens start with the literal prefix `sk_live_` followed by 32 base62 characters (≈190 bits of entropy). Tokens are hashed at rest with argon2id and shown to the user only once at creation.

In: `header`

## Path Parameters

clientId\*string

Format`uuid`

## Request Body

`application/json`

TypeScript Definitions

Use the request body type in TypeScript.

## Response Body

### 

`application/json`

### 

`application/json`

### 

`application/json`

### 

`application/json`

### 

`application/json`

    curl -X POST "https://api.salfio.com/v1/clients/497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08/activities" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "type": "email"  }'

    {
      "meta": {
        "cursor": "string",
        "hasMore": true
      },
      "data": {
        "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
        "clientId": "5e505642-9024-474d-9434-e5a44f505cc5",
        "type": "email",
        "source": "manual",
        "subject": "string",
        "content": "string",
        "occurredAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
        "participants": [
          "[email protected]"
        ],
        "immutable": true,
        "archivedAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
        "createdAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
        "updatedAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z"
      }
    }

    {
      "error": {
        "code": "invalid_argument",
        "message": "limit must be an integer between 1 and 100"
      }
    }

    {
      "error": {
        "code": "unauthorized",
        "message": "Authentication required"
      }
    }

    {
      "error": {
        "code": "not_found",
        "message": "client not found"
      }
    }

    {
      "error": {
        "code": "rate_limited",
        "message": "Rate limit exceeded",
        "details": {
          "retry_after_seconds": 30
        }
      }
    }

## Related pages

- [Administrator Tools](./administrator-tools.md)
- [Agent Tools](./mcp-external-servers.md)
- [Assign a Slack channel to a client over the API](./guides-assign-slack-channel.md)
- [Authenticated health check](./api-reference-gethealth.md)
- [Authentication](./api-authentication.md)
- [Cards](./cards.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Connect a workspace](./getting-started-connect-workspace.md)
- [Connect an integration](./getting-started-connect-integration.md)

# Agent Instructions

This portal answers questions programmatically. To receive a synthesized,
source-cited answer instead of crawling page by page, append the `?ask=`
query parameter to any page URL on this site:

    /guides/quickstart?ask=how+do+I+authenticate

Optional parameters:

- `&goal=<what-you-are-trying-to-do>` steers the answer toward your
  objective (e.g. `&goal=write+a+python+client`).
- `&version=<label>` scopes the answer to a mounted version when the
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The response is `text/markdown`: the answer followed by a `# Sources` list
of the portal pages it was grounded in. Status codes are the contract:

- `200` — the answer; `402` — the portal owner’s plan or answer credits are
  exhausted (surface this to your operator; do NOT retry); `429` — you are
  rate-limited; back off for the `Retry-After` seconds; `503` — the answer
  lane is temporarily unavailable; fall back to crawling the `.md` pages.

For the full corpus map read `llms.txt` at the site root; for the tool
surface (search + page fetch as MCP tools) see `/mcp`.