Users - Naïve

A tenant user is one of your end-users. Every primitive — cards, inboxes, vault, connections, verification, formation — is scoped to a tenant user, so each of your customers gets their own isolated set of Naive resources. Tenant users are not auth subjects: they never sign in, and you manage them entirely through the API/SDK/CLI. On signup you automatically get a default tenant user, so solo usage needs no users.create() — every top-level call (naive.cards, naive.vault, …) acts on it. Multi-tenant builders create one tenant user per end-user and scope calls with naive.forUser(id).

CLI First

# Create a tenant user and make them the active CLI subject
naive users create --external-id alice_db_uuid --email alice@example.com --label "Alice"
naive users list
naive use <user_id>          # every subsequent command targets this user

Tools

Tool	Type	Description
`users_list`	Core	List all tenant users in the workspace
`users_create`	Core	Provision a new tenant user
`users_get`	Core	Fetch a single tenant user
`users_update`	Core	Update label, email, metadata, or assigned Account Kit
`users_delete`	Management	Remove a tenant user and their scoped resources

Creating a User

Each user is governed by an Account Kit. Omit account_kit_id to use your workspace’s Default kit.

curl -X POST https://api.usenaive.ai/v1/users \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nv_sk_your_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "external_id": "alice_db_uuid", "email": "alice@example.com", "label": "Alice" }'

import { Naive } from "@usenaive-sdk/server";
const naive = new Naive({ apiKey: process.env.NAIVE_API_KEY });

const alice = await naive.users.create({
  external_id: "alice_db_uuid",
  email: "alice@example.com",
  label: "Alice",
});
// Scope any primitive to this user:
await naive.forUser(alice.id).cards.create({ name: "Ads", spendingLimitCents: 25000 });

Response:

{
  "id": "90a734a7-5f5a-4c4f-ba8f-80f770971d16",
  "external_id": "alice_db_uuid",
  "email": "alice@example.com",
  "label": "Alice",
  "status": "active",
  "account_kit_id": "4273359a-7a80-460c-a93f-f49f9058fd23",
  "is_default": false,
  "created_at": "2026-06-04T06:45:36Z"
}

Parameters

Param	Type	Required	Default	Description
`external_id`	string	No	—	Your own stable id for this user (e.g. your DB row id)
`email`	string	No	—	The end-user’s email
`label`	string	No	—	Human-friendly display name
`account_kit_id`	string	No	Default kit	The Account Kit governing this user
`metadata`	object	No	—	Arbitrary JSON you can attach

The default tenant user is created on signup and can’t be deleted. Reference it as the sentinel default (e.g. /v1/users/default/vault) or via its id.

Listing & Fetching

curl https://api.usenaive.ai/v1/users \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nv_sk_your_key"

const { users } = await naive.users.list();
const alice = await naive.users.get(userId);

Updating & Deleting

# Reassign a user to a different Account Kit
curl -X PATCH https://api.usenaive.ai/v1/users/{user_id} \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nv_sk_your_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "account_kit_id": "kit-uuid" }'

# Delete a user
curl -X DELETE https://api.usenaive.ai/v1/users/{user_id} \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nv_sk_your_key"

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Recovery
`not_found`	`user_id` doesn’t exist in this workspace (or a cross-tenant id)	Use `GET /v1/users` to list valid ids
`invalid_input`	Malformed `account_kit_id` / `user_id`	Pass a valid UUID, or omit to use the Default kit
`duplicate_record`	`external_id` already exists	Reuse the existing user or pick a new `external_id`

Typical Workflow

Your app signs up a new customer "Alice"
    │
    ├─ POST /v1/users                       → Provision her tenant user
    │   { external_id: "alice_db_uuid" }
    │   → id: 90a734a7-...
    │
    ├─ POST /v1/users/90a734a7.../connections/connect   → Connect Gmail for her
    ├─ PUT  /v1/users/90a734a7.../vault/openai_key       → Store her secret
    └─ POST /v1/users/90a734a7.../cards                  → Issue her a card
        (all isolated to Alice, governed by her Account Kit)

​CLI First

​Tools

​Creating a User

​Parameters

​Listing & Fetching

​Updating & Deleting

​Error Handling

​Typical Workflow

CLI First

Tools

Creating a User

Parameters

Listing & Fetching

Updating & Deleting

Error Handling

Typical Workflow