curl -X POST 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agent-testing/folders' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-name",
  "parent_folder_id": "parent-folder-id"
}'

# POST /v1/convai/agent-testing/folders (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Create Agent Test Folder

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agent-testing/folders' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"name":"example-name","parent_folder_id":"parent-folder-id"}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| name | body | string | Yes | The name of the folder to create |
| parent_folder_id | body | string | No | The ID of the parent folder. If not provided, the folder... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"id":"string","name":"string"}

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POST

POST /v1/convai/agent-testing/folders — ElevenLabs API

ElevenLabs API

Create Agent Test Folder

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

Actions Try in browser→

Agents: curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" this URL
→ 199 tokens · Vary: Accept

Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agent-testing/folders' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "name": "example-name",  "parent_folder_id": "parent-folder-id"}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
name	body	string	Yes	The name of the folder to create
parent_folder_id	body	string	No	The ID of the parent folder. If not provided, the folder will be created at the root level.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string"
}

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