Grade a person across a career
curl --request POST \
--url https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"grades": [
{
"skillId": "77",
"managerGradeId": "3",
"managerYearsOfExperience": 4,
"selfGradeId": "2",
"selfYearsOfExperience": 2
}
]
}
'import requests
url = "https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades"
payload = { "grades": [
{
"skillId": "77",
"managerGradeId": "3",
"managerYearsOfExperience": 4,
"selfGradeId": "2",
"selfYearsOfExperience": 2
}
] }
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
grades: [
{
skillId: '77',
managerGradeId: '3',
managerYearsOfExperience: 4,
selfGradeId: '2',
selfYearsOfExperience: 2
}
]
})
};
fetch('https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'grades' => [
[
'skillId' => '77',
'managerGradeId' => '3',
'managerYearsOfExperience' => 4,
'selfGradeId' => '2',
'selfYearsOfExperience' => 2
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"grades\": [\n {\n \"skillId\": \"77\",\n \"managerGradeId\": \"3\",\n \"managerYearsOfExperience\": 4,\n \"selfGradeId\": \"2\",\n \"selfYearsOfExperience\": 2\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"grades\": [\n {\n \"skillId\": \"77\",\n \"managerGradeId\": \"3\",\n \"managerYearsOfExperience\": 4,\n \"selfGradeId\": \"2\",\n \"selfYearsOfExperience\": 2\n }\n ]\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"grades\": [\n {\n \"skillId\": \"77\",\n \"managerGradeId\": \"3\",\n \"managerYearsOfExperience\": 4,\n \"selfGradeId\": \"2\",\n \"selfYearsOfExperience\": 2\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"id": "512",
"name": "TIG Welding",
"description": "Gas tungsten arc welding.",
"isCertification": false,
"selfGrade": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"selfYearsOfExperience": 4,
"managerGrade": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"managerYearsOfExperience": 3,
"managerGradeUpdatedAt": "2026-02-01T10:00:00.000Z",
"managerGradeUpdatedBy": {
"id": "1042",
"name": "Dana Whitfield"
},
"benchmark": {
"effective": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"source": "manager",
"manager": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"careers": [
{
"careerId": "31",
"careerName": "Warehouse Operator",
"careerSkillId": "512",
"levelId": "7",
"levelName": "Senior",
"career": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"level": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"effective": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"effectiveSource": "manager"
}
]
},
"notApplicable": false,
"focus": {
"employee": false,
"manager": true
},
"origin": {
"direct": true,
"careers": [
{
"careerId": "31",
"careerName": "Warehouse Operator",
"careerSkillId": "512"
}
]
}
}
],
"meta": {
"total": 1342,
"limit": 50,
"offset": 0
}
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}Proficiency Data
Grade a person across a career
Sets manager and/or self grades for skills the career requires, in one call. A skill that is not part of the career for this person is a 422; self grades need the acting person to be the subject.
Requires scope: proficiency:write.
POST
/
api
/
v1
/
people
/
{personId}
/
careers
/
{careerId}
/
grades
Grade a person across a career
curl --request POST \
--url https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"grades": [
{
"skillId": "77",
"managerGradeId": "3",
"managerYearsOfExperience": 4,
"selfGradeId": "2",
"selfYearsOfExperience": 2
}
]
}
'import requests
url = "https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades"
payload = { "grades": [
{
"skillId": "77",
"managerGradeId": "3",
"managerYearsOfExperience": 4,
"selfGradeId": "2",
"selfYearsOfExperience": 2
}
] }
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
grades: [
{
skillId: '77',
managerGradeId: '3',
managerYearsOfExperience: 4,
selfGradeId: '2',
selfYearsOfExperience: 2
}
]
})
};
fetch('https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'grades' => [
[
'skillId' => '77',
'managerGradeId' => '3',
'managerYearsOfExperience' => 4,
'selfGradeId' => '2',
'selfYearsOfExperience' => 2
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"grades\": [\n {\n \"skillId\": \"77\",\n \"managerGradeId\": \"3\",\n \"managerYearsOfExperience\": 4,\n \"selfGradeId\": \"2\",\n \"selfYearsOfExperience\": 2\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"grades\": [\n {\n \"skillId\": \"77\",\n \"managerGradeId\": \"3\",\n \"managerYearsOfExperience\": 4,\n \"selfGradeId\": \"2\",\n \"selfYearsOfExperience\": 2\n }\n ]\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://prod.skillsdbnext.com/api/v1/people/{personId}/careers/{careerId}/grades")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"grades\": [\n {\n \"skillId\": \"77\",\n \"managerGradeId\": \"3\",\n \"managerYearsOfExperience\": 4,\n \"selfGradeId\": \"2\",\n \"selfYearsOfExperience\": 2\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"id": "512",
"name": "TIG Welding",
"description": "Gas tungsten arc welding.",
"isCertification": false,
"selfGrade": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"selfYearsOfExperience": 4,
"managerGrade": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"managerYearsOfExperience": 3,
"managerGradeUpdatedAt": "2026-02-01T10:00:00.000Z",
"managerGradeUpdatedBy": {
"id": "1042",
"name": "Dana Whitfield"
},
"benchmark": {
"effective": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"source": "manager",
"manager": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"careers": [
{
"careerId": "31",
"careerName": "Warehouse Operator",
"careerSkillId": "512",
"levelId": "7",
"levelName": "Senior",
"career": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"level": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"effective": {
"id": "3",
"grade": 3,
"label": "Proficient"
},
"effectiveSource": "manager"
}
]
},
"notApplicable": false,
"focus": {
"employee": false,
"manager": true
},
"origin": {
"direct": true,
"careers": [
{
"careerId": "31",
"careerName": "Warehouse Operator",
"careerSkillId": "512"
}
]
}
}
],
"meta": {
"total": 1342,
"limit": 50,
"offset": 0
}
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}{
"type": "https://help.skillsdb.com/api-docs/errors/validation-error",
"title": "Validation failed",
"status": 400,
"detail": "limit must be between 1 and 200",
"instance": "/api/v1/people",
"requestId": "0192c2f1-6f4e-7ab3-b1c4-5f6a7b8c9d0e",
"errors": [
{
"field": "email",
"code": "max_length",
"message": "email must be shorter than or equal to 75 characters"
}
],
"error": "trial_expired",
"upgrade_url": "https://app.skillsdb.com/settings/billing"
}Authorizations
An API key issued by a company administrator — an environment prefix (production: sdb_live_) followed by 32 characters. The prefix identifies the environment and MUST NOT be hard-coded or validated by clients; treat the whole key as opaque. Shown exactly once at creation; only a one-way hash is stored.
Scopes (granted per key on the create screen; :write never implies :read):
skills:readskills:writepeople:readpeople:writecareers:readcareers:writetraining:readtraining:writeflags:readflags:writeorg:readorg:writeassessments:readlearning:readlearning:writecertifications:readcertifications:writeassessments:writeproficiency:readproficiency:writesurveys:readsurveys:writelabels:readlabels:write
Headers
Any unique string (at most 200 characters). Retrying with the same key and identical content replays the stored response for 24h instead of executing twice.
Maximum string length:
200Path Parameters
The person's email address — or the opaque person id from any response.
Example:
"ada@example.com"
Opaque resource id.
Body
application/json
One entry per skill of the career to grade.
Show child attributes
Show child attributes