Manage app users and team members

In the Anythink dashboard

1. In My Anythink, open the project and find Team Access.
2. Select Invite User, enter their email address and choose a Role.
3. Select Send Invitation. Once they accept, they appear under MyAnythink Users on Settings › Users.

With the CLI

With an AI assistant (MCP)

In the Anythink dashboard

1. Open Settings › Users.
2. Project Users lists your app users with their name, email, role, sign-in method, status, last login and dates. Select a name to open the user.
3. Type in Search name or email to narrow the list.
4. Use the quick filters Has subscriptions, Native sign-in, Password sign-in, Pending invites and New this week, and sort by Newest, Recently active or A–Z. Select Clear to reset them.

The status is Active once the user has set up their account, and Invite Sent until they have. You need anythink_users:read to see the page.

With the CLI

anythink users list
anythink users get 42

users list prints every user's id, name, email and role. Find one by email with your shell:

anythink users list | grep alice@example.com

For the full record, including status and sign-in details, call the API:

anythink fetch /users/42

{
  "id": 42,
  "gid": "368f7b33-940e-4aad-a3d8-5a28215935bd",
  "is_central_user": false,
  "first_name": "Alice",
  "last_name": "Smith",
  "email": "alice@example.com",
  "is_active": true,
  "confirmed_at": "2026-10-04T13:31:50.114391Z",
  "invite_accepted_at": "2026-10-04T13:31:50.114391Z",
  "role_id": 104,
  "role_name": "Standard User",
  "auth_provider": null,
  "last_login_at": "2026-10-04T13:31:50.307407Z"
}

The response carries more fields than shown, including the role's permissions. is_active is false until an invited user accepts, or a user who must confirm their email does so.

With an AI assistant (MCP)

Find alice@example.com and tell me her role, whether she has signed in, and how she signs in.

The assistant runs users list to find her id, then fetch /users/42 for the details.

In the Anythink dashboard

1. Open Settings › Users and select Create Project User.
2. Enter the First Name, Last Name and Email, and choose a Role. The list holds your active roles, without administrator roles.
3. Select Create User. Anythink sends the invitation.

With the CLI

Find the role's id, then create the user:

anythink roles list
anythink fetch /users --method POST --body '{
  "first_name": "Alice",
  "last_name": "Smith",
  "email": "alice@example.com",
  "role_id": 104
}'

{
  "id": 42,
  "gid": "368f7b33-940e-4aad-a3d8-5a28215935bd",
  "first_name": "Alice",
  "last_name": "Smith",
  "email": "alice@example.com"
}

first_name and last_name are required and up to 50 characters. email is required, valid and up to 255 characters. role_id is the id of an existing role. The invitation goes out as part of the call.

With an AI assistant (MCP)

Invite alice@example.com, Alice Smith, as a Standard User.

The assistant runs roles list to find the role's id, then creates the user with fetch /users.

Creating a user fires the UserInvited event, so a workflow can send a welcome message or set up their records. See Triggers and scheduling.

In the Anythink dashboard

Open the user from Settings › Users. The buttons depend on where they are:

Mark as Confirmed makes the user active without waiting for the email. Copy Invite Link is also in a pending user's row menu on the list. Use it when the email doesn't arrive: send the link to the person yourself.

With the CLI

anythink fetch /users/42/send-invitation-email --method POST
anythink fetch /users/42/send-confirmation-email --method POST
anythink fetch /users/42/mark-as-confirmed --method POST

Each returns 204 No Content. Use the first for a user who hasn't accepted their invitation yet, and the second for one who hasn't confirmed. A user who has already accepted gets 400 User already accepted invite, and one who has already confirmed gets 400 User is already confirmed.

With an AI assistant (MCP)

Resend the invitation to user 42, or mark user 43 as confirmed.

The assistant calls POST /users/42/send-invitation-email or POST /users/43/mark-as-confirmed through fetch.

In the Anythink dashboard

1. Open Settings › Users and select the user.
2. Under Edit User, change the First Name, Last Name or Role.
3. Select Update User.

The role list holds your active roles, without administrator roles. The change applies to the user's next request, so they don't need to sign in again. See Roles and permissions.

With the CLI

There's no users update command, so call the API. It saves all three values, so send the user's current names with the new role:

anythink roles list
anythink fetch /users/42 --method PUT --body '{
  "first_name": "Alice",
  "last_name": "Smith",
  "role_id": 133
}'

It returns 200. first_name, last_name and role_id are all required, and a role_id that isn't a role in the project returns 400 Role does not exist.

With an AI assistant (MCP)

Move user 42 to the editor role.

The assistant looks up the role's id with roles list, reads the user's current name with users get 42, then sends the update through fetch.

Team members aren't edited here. Their name and role are managed in My Anythink.

In the Anythink dashboard

1. Open Settings › Groups and select the group.
2. Under Members, select Add member.
3. Choose the User and a Role, then select Add member.

With the CLI

anythink fetch /groups/5/members --method POST --body '{"user_id":42,"role_id":104}'
anythink fetch /groups/by-user/42

The second command lists the groups user 42 is in.

With an AI assistant (MCP)

Add user 42 to the group called Team North, with the Standard User role.

The assistant finds the group and the role with fetch /groups and roles list, then adds the member.

Group grants only count once Enable group-level row access is on under Settings › Organisation Settings. The groups API needs the anythink_groups permissions, which administrators have and no other role gets by default. Groups and row-level security covers all of it.

In the Anythink dashboard

1. Open Settings › Users and select the user.
2. Open the Profile panel and select Edit.
3. Change the Preferred name, Timezone, Locale or Marketing consent (Not asked, Given or Declined). Use Pick image to choose an avatar.
4. Select Save.

The panel also shows the attribution and signup details, which can't be edited.

With the CLI

anythink fetch /user-profiles/by-user/42
anythink fetch /user-profiles/by-user/42 --method PUT --body '{
  "preferred_name": "Alice",
  "avatar_file_id": null,
  "timezone": "Europe/London",
  "locale": "en-GB",
  "marketing_consent": true
}'

The update replaces the profile, so send all five fields. Leave one out and the call returns 400 and changes nothing. Read the profile first and send back the values you aren't changing. To page through every profile, call GET /user-profiles?page=1&page_size=25.

With an AI assistant (MCP)

Set Alice's timezone to Europe/London and her locale to en-GB. Keep everything else on her profile as it is.

The assistant reads her profile with fetch /user-profiles/by-user/42, then sends the update with all five fields.

Profiles are visible to administrators. To let your app's users read and edit their own, give their role anythink_user_profiles:read and anythink_user_profiles:update. A user with those permissions can then reach only their own profile: another user's profile and the full list return 403.

In the Anythink dashboard

1. Open Settings › Users.
2. Open the menu at the end of the user's row and choose Delete, then confirm.

To remove several, tick their rows and select Delete with the count shown in the bar above the list. You can't delete yourself, and team members have no delete action.

With the CLI

anythink users delete 42 --yes

✓ User 42 deleted.

Without --yes the CLI asks you to confirm.

With an AI assistant (MCP)

Delete user 42.

The assistant runs users delete 42 --yes, or calls DELETE /users/42 through fetch.