curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/projects/project-id/hosted_tool_permissions' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

# POST /organization/projects/{project_id}/hosted_tool_permissions (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI admin key; required.
Request formats: application/json.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Modify project hosted tool permissions

## Critical Gotchas
* The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.
* Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/projects/project-id/hosted_tool_permissions' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| project_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the project. |
| file_search | body | object | No | The file search permission update. |
| web_search | body | object | No | The web search permission update. |
| image_generation | body | object | No | The image generation permission update. |
| mcp | body | object | No | The MCP permission update. |
| code_interpreter | body | object | No | The code interpreter permission update. |

## Response example
{"file_search":{"enabled":true},"web_search":{"enabled":true}}

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POST

POST /organization/projects/{project_id}/hosted_tool_permissions — OpenAI API

OpenAI admin key (required); https://api.openai.com/v1

OpenAI API

Modify project hosted tool permissions

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.

Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/projects/project-id/hosted_tool_permissions' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
project_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the project.
file_search	body	object	No	The file search permission update.
web_search	body	object	No	The web search permission update.
image_generation	body	object	No	The image generation permission update.
mcp	body	object	No	The MCP permission update.
code_interpreter	body	object	No	The code interpreter permission update.

Response 200 OK

{
  "file_search": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "web_search": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "image_generation": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "mcp": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "code_interpreter": {
    "enabled": true
  }
}

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