Create a Project Draft

Create the initial project draft and establish the public project resource boundary. This is the first step in the staged Projects API lifecycle.

POST

/api/v1/projects/create

Example request

curl https://api.vidbyte.ai/api/v1/projects/create \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer vb_live_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "prompt": "Design a backend observability project",
    "project_goal": "Ship something portfolio-ready",
    "current_level": "intermediate",
    "depth_preference": "deep but practical"
  }'

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "id": "proj_Mx1q8Tt2",
  "data": {
    "id": "proj_Mx1q8Tt2",
    "item_type": "project",
    "title": "Backend observability project",
    "status": "active",
    "createdAt": "2026-04-10T18:00:00",
    "updatedAt": "2026-04-10T18:00:00",
    "project_data": { "generation_status": "questions_generating" }
  }
}

Parameter information

These are the public parameters for /api/v1/projects/create. Path parameters and request-body fields are shown together so the page stays focused on the live request contract you actually send.

promptstringRequired

The main topic, task, or learning objective you want Vidbyte to generate from. This is the core instruction the route uses.