# `bird trust gates verification create`

## Usage

```bash
bird trust gates verification create <slug> [flags]
```

## Description

Create a trust-gate verification

What comes back decides who finishes it. A provider-hosted requirement answers with `hosted_url`: hand that link to the person whose identity is being checked and stop there, because only they can complete it. A requirement verified with a one-time code answers with the channel and a masked destination instead, and you finish it with `bird trust gates verification check` once they read the code back to you. Pass no destination for the hosted kind.

Build the request from flags, a JSON TrustVerificationStart body via --body-file ("-" reads
stdin), or both — a flag overrides the matching body field. Run --example to
print a ready-to-edit body, or --dry-run to print the resolved request without
sending it.

## Examples

```bash
# print the body shape (no credentials needed)
bird trust gates verification create --example

# the body it prints:
```

```json
{
  "email": "alex@example.com"
}
```

## Options

#### Request

| Name                | Description                                                  |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `--body-file`       | Read the JSON request body from this file; "-" reads stdin   |
| `--example`         | Print a complete example request body, then exit             |
| `--dry-run`         | Print the resolved request without sending it, then exit     |
| `--idempotency-key` | Deduplication key; a retry with the same key won't act twice |

#### Options

| Name                | Description                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `--email`           | Where to send the one-time code, for a requirement verified that way. Omit for a provider-hosted requirement, which returns a link instead. Pass this or --phone-number, never both. |
| `--phone-number`    | Where to send the one-time code, in E.164. Omit for a provider-hosted requirement. Pass this or --email, never both.                                                                 |
| `--response-schema` | Print the fields this command returns, then exit                                                                                                                                     |

## Related

| Name                                                                                        | Description              |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ |
| [`bird trust gates verification check`](/docs/cli/reference/trust-gates-verification-check) | Verify a trust-gate code |