Give someone access to the dashboard

Gives an email address access to this brand's dashboard, as the team panel does. They sign in with the Google account on that address. Nothing is emailed to them.

POSThttps://api.tryscouty.com/v1/team

Scopeteam:manage
Write
Safe to retry
MCP toolscouty_add_team_member

Markdown version for your agent

Authorization

Send a Scouty token as a bearer token in the Authorization header. The token needs the team:manage scope, or the call answers 403 insufficient_scope. Tokens and scopes

Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTY_TOKEN

Headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`Idempotency-Key`	`string`	Optional	The same key the body's idempotencyKey carries. Send one or the other, or both with the same value.

Body parameters

A JSON object, sent with Content-Type: application/json.

Name	Type	Required	Description
`idempotencyKey`	`string`	Required	A key you choose for this call, 8 to 128 characters of letters, digits, dot, underscore, colon or hyphen. Sending the same key with the same arguments replays the first answer and changes nothing, so a retry after a timeout is safe.
`email`	`string`	Required	The person's email address. It is the Google account they sign in with.

Details

scouty_add_team_member gives an email address access to your dashboard. They sign in with the Google account on that address. Scouty emails nobody, so tell them yourself.

json

{ "status": "added",
  "member": { "email": "alex@glow.example", "addedAt": "2026-09-23T12:00:00.000Z", "isYou": false },
  "note": "They sign in with the Google account on that address. Adding it does not email anybody, so tell them yourself." }

Errors

A refusal answers { "error": { "code", "message" } }. Branch on code; the message is for a person. Every error and its fix

Status	error.code	Meaning
400 Bad Request	`invalid_request`	The request was not the shape this capability takes, or its body was not JSON.
401 Unauthorized	`missing_token` `invalid_token` `token_revoked` `token_expired` `token_orphaned`	No token, or one that is not recognized, revoked or expired.
403 Forbidden	`insufficient_scope` `wrong_principal`	The token does not carry the scope this capability needs.
409 Conflict	`idempotency_conflict`	That idempotency key was already used for a different request. Nothing was changed.
429 Too Many Requests	`rate_limited`	Too many requests this minute. Retry-After says how long is left.