Create skill

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.agile-tools.io/v1/public/skills \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "Python (programming language)",
  "description": "General-purpose programming language",
  "category": "Programming",
  "skillType": "skill/competence",
  "proficiencyScale": "1-10",
  "active": true,
  "externalId": "SKILL_PYTHON"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.agile-tools.io/v1/public/skills"

payload = {
    "name": "Python (programming language)",
    "description": "General-purpose programming language",
    "category": "Programming",
    "skillType": "skill/competence",
    "proficiencyScale": "1-10",
    "active": True,
    "externalId": "SKILL_PYTHON"
}
headers = {
    "X-API-Key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'X-API-Key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    name: 'Python (programming language)',
    description: 'General-purpose programming language',
    category: 'Programming',
    skillType: 'skill/competence',
    proficiencyScale: '1-10',
    active: true,
    externalId: 'SKILL_PYTHON'
  })
};

fetch('https://api.agile-tools.io/v1/public/skills', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.agile-tools.io/v1/public/skills",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'name' => 'Python (programming language)',
    'description' => 'General-purpose programming language',
    'category' => 'Programming',
    'skillType' => 'skill/competence',
    'proficiencyScale' => '1-10',
    'active' => true,
    'externalId' => 'SKILL_PYTHON'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "X-API-Key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.agile-tools.io/v1/public/skills"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"name\": \"Python (programming language)\",\n  \"description\": \"General-purpose programming language\",\n  \"category\": \"Programming\",\n  \"skillType\": \"skill/competence\",\n  \"proficiencyScale\": \"1-10\",\n  \"active\": true,\n  \"externalId\": \"SKILL_PYTHON\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.agile-tools.io/v1/public/skills")
  .header("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"name\": \"Python (programming language)\",\n  \"description\": \"General-purpose programming language\",\n  \"category\": \"Programming\",\n  \"skillType\": \"skill/competence\",\n  \"proficiencyScale\": \"1-10\",\n  \"active\": true,\n  \"externalId\": \"SKILL_PYTHON\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.agile-tools.io/v1/public/skills")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"name\": \"Python (programming language)\",\n  \"description\": \"General-purpose programming language\",\n  \"category\": \"Programming\",\n  \"skillType\": \"skill/competence\",\n  \"proficiencyScale\": \"1-10\",\n  \"active\": true,\n  \"externalId\": \"SKILL_PYTHON\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "4f5c6d7e-0000-0000-0000-000000000001",
    "name": "Python (programming language)",
    "description": "General-purpose programming language",
    "scopeNote": "Includes scripting, automation and data processing use cases.",
    "reuseLevel": "transversal",
    "collections": [
      "digital"
    ],
    "category": "Programming",
    "skillType": "skill/competence",
    "proficiencyScale": "1-10",
    "externalId": "SKILL_PYTHON",
    "active": true,
    "global": false
  },
  "meta": {
    "requestId": "f056699e-497d-41d9-a877-d7c862de6587",
    "timestamp": "2026-04-03T12:08:00Z"
  }
}