jfrog-provision-project

name	jfrog-provision-project
description	Provision a new project on the JFrog Platform via REST API. Use when the user wants to create a JFrog project, set up a new project in Artifactory, or as part of onboarding a GitHub repo to JFrog.

JFrog Provision Project

Creates a project on the JFrog Platform. Projects are the top-level organizational unit that groups repositories, builds, and members.

Prefer jf api (../../../platform-features/skills/jfrog-cli/jf-api-patterns.md); curl below is fallback.

Inputs

• project_key -- 3-32 chars, lowercase letters and digits only, must start with a letter
• display_name -- human-readable name
• description -- optional project description

Workflow

0. Load credentials

# Load .env if JFROG_URL or JFROG_ACCESS_TOKEN are not already set
if [ -z "$JFROG_URL" ] || [ -z "$JFROG_ACCESS_TOKEN" ]; then
  if [ -f .env ]; then
    set -a; source .env; set +a
  fi
fi

1. Validate project key

# Must be 3-32 lowercase alphanumeric, starting with a letter
echo "$PROJECT_KEY" | grep -qE '^[a-z][a-z0-9]{2,31}$' || echo "ERROR: Invalid project key"

2. Check if project already exists

SC=/tmp/jf-proj-exists.code
SB=/tmp/jf-proj-exists.json
jf api "/access/api/v1/projects/$PROJECT_KEY" >"$SB" 2>"$SC"
STATUS=$(tr -d '\r\n' < "$SC")

if [ "$STATUS" = "200" ]; then
  echo "Project '$PROJECT_KEY' already exists. Skipping creation."
  # Proceed to next step in the onboarding chain
fi

3. Create the project

jf api /access/api/v1/projects -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "project_key": "'"$PROJECT_KEY"'",
    "display_name": "'"$DISPLAY_NAME"'",
    "description": "'"$DESCRIPTION"'",
    "admin_privileges": {
      "manage_members": true,
      "manage_resources": true,
      "index_resources": true
    }
  }'

Expected response: HTTP 201 on stderr; body on stdout.

Fallback: curl -sf -X POST "$JFROG_URL/access/api/v1/projects" -H "Authorization: Bearer $JFROG_ACCESS_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '...'

4. Verify creation

jf api "/access/api/v1/projects/$PROJECT_KEY" | jq .

Fallback: curl -sf -H "Authorization: Bearer $JFROG_ACCESS_TOKEN" "$JFROG_URL/access/api/v1/projects/$PROJECT_KEY" | jq .

Error Handling

• 409 Conflict: Project already exists -- treat as success
• 400 Bad Request: Invalid project key format -- report to user
• 403 Forbidden: Token lacks permissions -- ask user to use a Platform Admin token

Additional Resources

For full API spec details, see reference.md.