> This page is for version 2025-09-18 (default).
> For other versions, use one of these documentation indexes:
> - 2025-09-18 (default): https://apidocs.polytomic.com/2025-09-18/llms.txt
> - 2024-02-08: https://apidocs.polytomic.com/2024-02-08/llms.txt
> - 2023-04-25: https://apidocs.polytomic.com/2023-04-25/llms.txt
> - 2022-12-12: https://apidocs.polytomic.com/2022-12-12/llms.txt
> - 2021-05-23: https://apidocs.polytomic.com/2021-05-23/llms.txt

> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://apidocs.polytomic.com/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://apidocs.polytomic.com/_mcp/server.

# List Roles

GET https://app.polytomic.com/api/permissions/roles

Lists all permissions roles available in the caller's organization, including built-in system roles.

System roles such as Admin and Member are always present in every organization
and cannot be modified or deleted. Custom roles appear alongside them and can
be created, updated, or removed as needed.

To inspect or modify a specific role, use
[`GET /api/permissions/roles/{id}`](../../../api-reference/permissions/roles/get).

Reference: https://apidocs.polytomic.com/api-reference/permissions/roles/list

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer user API key
- `Authorization` header (basic auth, required) — Basic organization-scoped API key

## Response

### 200

OK

- `data` (list of RoleResponse, optional, nullable)

## Errors

### 500 Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

- `key` (string, optional)
- `message` (string, optional)
- `metadata` (map from string to any, optional)
- `status` (integer, optional)

## Types

### RoleResponse

- `id` (string, optional)
- `name` (string, optional)
- `organization_id` (string, optional)
- `system` (boolean, optional)

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "248df4b7-aa70-47b8-a036-33ac447e668d",
      "name": "Custom",
      "organization_id": "248df4b7-aa70-47b8-a036-33ac447e668d",
      "system": false
    }
  ]
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://app.polytomic.com/api/permissions/roles"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://app.polytomic.com/api/permissions/roles';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://app.polytomic.com/api/permissions/roles"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

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

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

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.polytomic.com/api/permissions/roles")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

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

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://app.polytomic.com/api/permissions/roles")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://app.polytomic.com/api/permissions/roles', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://app.polytomic.com/api/permissions/roles");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://app.polytomic.com/api/permissions/roles")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```