Actionist·Auth0 Management API
Auth0 Management API

Auth0 Management API

· #329 most-used

Programmatically manage users, roles, and access control across your Auth0 tenant

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The Auth0 Management API (v2) is the administrative HTTP API for Auth0's identity platform — giving developers and agents programmatic control over users, roles, permissions, connections, applications, logs, and tenant configuration. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can provision and deprovision users on demand, assign or revoke roles and permissions, inspect login logs for anomalies, rotate client secrets, and synchronize user metadata with the rest of your stack — all without requiring a human to log into the Auth0 dashboard.

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Average time saved
6 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of navigating the Auth0 dashboard to provision users, assign roles, and pull log reports — tasks that individually take minutes but add up across a week.

Schedule

What your Auth0 Management API agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs
7Agents at work
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Multi-app workflows

Auth0 Management API × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
6Apps spanned
~9 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For hr
Featured4 apps

New hire Identity provisioned before day one

The moment a new hire is added to the HRIS, the agent creates their Auth0 account, assigns the correct starter role, logs the user_id to the IT provisioning tracker, and alerts the IT ops Slack channel — all before the employee arrives on their first day.

~3 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a new employee record is created in the HRIS
Trigger
Step 1
Notion
Detect new employee record created in HRIS
write
Step 2
Auth0 Management API
Create User with email, temporary password, and department metadata
write
Step 3
Auth0 Management API
Assign Roles to User based on department and job level
write
Step 4
Google Sheets
Log Auth0 user_id and role to the IT provisioning tracker
write
Step 5
Slack
Post provisioning confirmation to #it-ops channel
Result
Create User with email, temporary password, and department metadataAssign Roles to User based on department and job levelLog Auth0 user_id and role to the IT provisioning trackerPost provisioning confirmation to #it-ops channel
The win
Saved per run
25 min
Runs / week
~8×
New hires have working access on day one without an IT ticket
Driven byHuman Resources Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    15 min / week
    Manual trial account tagging

    Sales ops manually updates Auth0 user metadata after each trial-to-paid conversion — copying plan names and dates from Stripe into the Auth0 dashboard one user at a time.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent syncs plan metadata on every conversion

    When a trial converts in Stripe, the agent calls Update User in Auth0 to write the plan name and conversion date to app_metadata within about a minute — zero dashboard visits.

  • Marketing
    20 min / week
    Manual UTM source tagging in Auth0

    Marketing manually adds UTM source metadata to Auth0 accounts created through campaign landing pages — a process that requires dashboard access and is frequently skipped.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent patches UTM metadata on every sign-up

    The agent automatically writes utm_source to app_metadata for every new Auth0 account created through a campaign — attribution is clean from sign-up without any dashboard access.

  • Customer Support
    45 min / week
    Support agents look up Auth0 manually per ticket

    Support agents switch to the Auth0 dashboard mid-ticket to look up the customer's last login, MFA status, and plan tier — adding 3-5 minutes of context-gathering to every interaction.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent surfaces Auth0 context directly in every ticket

    The agent calls Get User and appends last login, MFA status, and subscription tier to the ticket's internal notes before the support agent opens it — zero dashboard switching.

  • Human Resources
    60 min / week
    IT ticket required for every hire and leaver

    HR submits an IT ticket for every new hire (create Auth0 account) and every leaver (block/delete Auth0 account). IT processes the queue manually, causing provisioning delays of up to 2 days.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent provisions and deprovisions from HRIS events

    New hire in the HRIS → Auth0 account created and roles assigned within about a minute. Leaver processed → roles stripped and account blocked on the departure date. No IT ticket.

  • Finance
    25 min / week
    Manual access suspension for overdue invoices

    Finance emails IT when an invoice goes overdue, IT manually blocks the Auth0 account — a process that takes 1-2 business days and is inconsistently applied.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent suspends access at 14 days overdue automatically

    When an invoice crosses the 14-day overdue threshold, the agent blocks the Auth0 account and logs the action — no IT ticket, consistent enforcement, same-day suspension every time.

  • Operations
    30 min / week
    Quarterly credential rotation done manually

    Ops manually tracks which Auth0 M2M application secrets need rotating, rotates them one by one in the dashboard, and coordinates with owning teams to update environment variables — a process that takes a full day.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent identifies and rotates overdue secrets on schedule

    The agent lists all M2M applications, identifies secrets older than 90 days, rotates each one, and notifies the owning team — the full quarterly rotation runs in under an hour with no manual coordination.

  • Legal
    40 min / week
    Manual GDPR erasure requires multi-team coordination

    Legal raises an erasure request, IT deletes the Auth0 account manually, then Legal chases each other system (CRM, email, analytics) individually to confirm deletion — the full process takes 3-5 business days.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent executes erasure and logs every step automatically

    When a verified erasure request is approved, the agent deletes the Auth0 account, triggers downstream deletions, and files the timestamped record in the GDPR register — fully auditable in minutes.

+ 100s of other Auth0 Management API automations
Average time saved
24 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
8
Hours saved / year
375
Annual ROI
$28,125

Based on Auth0 Management API's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~1.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Auth0 Management API into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Supply your Auth0 tenant domain and a Management API access token scoped to the operations your agent will perform. For production use, create a dedicated Machine-to-Machine application so credentials can be rotated independently.

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Open the Auth0 Dashboard

Log in to auth0.com, select your tenant, then go to Applications → APIs → Auth0 Management API.

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Create a Machine-to-Machine application

Under Applications → Applications, create a new Machine-to-Machine app, authorize it to call the Management API, and select the required scopes (e.g. read:users, update:users, read:logs, create:role_members). Copy the Domain, Client ID, and Client Secret — or click the Test tab to generate a short-lived token for immediate use.

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Paste credentials into Actionist

Enter your tenant domain and the Management API token below, then click Test connection. Actionist runs a read-only GET /api/v2/users call to verify the credentials before saving.

Credentials you'll need
Auth0 Domain*
Your Auth0 tenant domain, e.g. yourcompany.us.auth0.com
Management API Token*
A Management API access token with the required scopes. Generate one from Auth0 Dashboard → Applications → APIs → Auth0 Management API → Test tab, or use a Machine-to-Machine application.
Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

0 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

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FAQs

Questions about Auth0 Management API + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to the Auth0 Management API?
Go to the Apps tab, find Auth0 Management API, and click Connect. You'll need two things: your Auth0 tenant domain (e.g. yourcompany.us.auth0.com) and a Management API access token. The cleanest approach is to create a dedicated Machine-to-Machine application in the Auth0 dashboard, authorize it to call the Management API, and select only the scopes your agent needs. Paste the domain and the token into Actionist, click Test connection, and the agent runs a read-only GET /api/v2/users call to verify the credentials before saving.
What scopes does the Management API token need?
The scopes depend on which actions your agent will perform. Read-only operations like List Users, Get User, Get Logs, and Get User Roles need read:users, read:users_app_metadata, read:logs, and read:roles. Write operations need the corresponding write scopes: update:users, update:users_app_metadata, create:users, delete:users, create:role_members, delete:role_members. For application management (List Applications, Rotate Client Secret) you need read:clients and update:clients. Assign only the scopes required — principle of least privilege means your Actionist connection can't do more than its stated job.
Management API tokens expire — how does Actionist handle token refresh?
Short-lived tokens generated from the Auth0 Test tab expire after 24 hours. For production use, you should create a Machine-to-Machine application with a client ID and client secret, and use the client credentials grant to generate tokens programmatically. When you configure Actionist with a domain + long-lived credentials from an M2M app, the agent can retrieve a fresh token when needed. If you paste a short-lived test token, scheduled agent tasks will start failing when it expires — plan for this by setting up proper M2M credentials before going live.
Can Actionist respond to Auth0 events in near real-time?
The Auth0 Management API is a REST API — it does not push events to Actionist directly. The agent polls for new log entries or user changes on a schedule you configure. For event-driven responses (e.g. act within about a minute of a failed login spike), you set the agent's scheduled log-check cadence tightly — every 5 or 15 minutes is common. For truly event-driven flows, you can pair Actionist with Auth0's Log Streaming feature to push events to a webhook, and trigger the agent from that webhook.
What is the difference between blocking a user and deleting a user in Auth0?
Blocking a user (Block User action) prevents login but keeps the account, its history, and all linked identities intact. Blocked users can be unblocked later — ideal for suspended subscriptions, active investigations, or temporary offboarding where reinstatement is possible. Deleting a user (Delete User action) permanently removes the account and all associated data from the tenant — no recovery possible. Use Delete User only for irreversible scenarios like GDPR erasure requests or permanent offboarding after a data-retention window closes.
How do agents use app_metadata versus user_metadata?
Both are custom key-value stores on the Auth0 user object, but they serve different audiences. app_metadata is writable only from server-side or privileged contexts (like the Management API) and is typically used for authoritative system data: subscription plan, feature flags, account tier, onboarding status. user_metadata is for user-controlled preferences: display name, notification settings, timezone. Actionist agents write to app_metadata for any entitlement or system-of-record data (e.g. subscription_plan, churned_at, job_level) and read user_metadata for preference context only.
Does Actionist support multi-tenant Auth0 setups?
Each Actionist connection to the Auth0 Management API points to one tenant (one domain). If your organization uses multiple Auth0 tenants — for example a development tenant and a production tenant, or separate tenants per product — you configure separate connections in Actionist, one per tenant. Agents can then be configured to call the correct connection for their context. There is no cross-tenant user look-up in a single API call — each tenant is independently authorized.
What Auth0 Management API operations are not supported in Actionist?
Actionist covers the core identity lifecycle operations: users (CRUD, block, roles, sessions), logs, connections, applications, and role management. Advanced Auth0 constructs — Actions (Auth0 serverless functions), Hooks, Rules, Triggers, Forms, Attack Protection configuration, and Organization management — are available in the Auth0 dashboard or via direct API calls but are not currently surfaced as named actions in Actionist. If you need to manage these, the agent can make raw HTTP calls to the Management API v2 endpoint alongside the named actions.