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A role is a permission set: which objects an app can read or write, which fields it can see, and which platform-level capabilities it can use. Every app’s logic functions and front components inherit the permissions of the role declared as defaultRoleUniversalIdentifier in defineApplication.
src/roles/restricted-company-role.ts
import {
defineRole,
PermissionFlag,
STANDARD_OBJECT_UNIVERSAL_IDENTIFIERS,
} from 'twenty-sdk/define';
export default defineRole({
universalIdentifier: '2c80f640-2083-4803-bb49-003e38279de6',
label: 'My new role',
description: 'A role that can be used in your workspace',
canReadAllObjectRecords: false,
canUpdateAllObjectRecords: false,
canSoftDeleteAllObjectRecords: false,
canDestroyAllObjectRecords: false,
canUpdateAllSettings: false,
canBeAssignedToAgents: false,
canBeAssignedToUsers: false,
canBeAssignedToApiKeys: false,
objectPermissions: [
{
objectUniversalIdentifier:
STANDARD_OBJECT_UNIVERSAL_IDENTIFIERS.company.universalIdentifier,
canReadObjectRecords: true,
canUpdateObjectRecords: true,
canSoftDeleteObjectRecords: false,
canDestroyObjectRecords: false,
},
],
fieldPermissions: [
{
objectUniversalIdentifier:
STANDARD_OBJECT_UNIVERSAL_IDENTIFIERS.company.universalIdentifier,
fieldUniversalIdentifier:
STANDARD_OBJECT_UNIVERSAL_IDENTIFIERS.company.fields.name.universalIdentifier,
canReadFieldValue: false,
canUpdateFieldValue: false,
},
],
permissionFlags: [PermissionFlag.APPLICATIONS],
});
The default function role
When you scaffold a new app, the CLI creates a default role file:
src/roles/default-role.ts
import { defineRole, PermissionFlag } from 'twenty-sdk/define';
export const DEFAULT_ROLE_UNIVERSAL_IDENTIFIER =
'b648f87b-1d26-4961-b974-0908fd991061';
export default defineRole({
universalIdentifier: DEFAULT_ROLE_UNIVERSAL_IDENTIFIER,
label: 'Default function role',
description: 'Default role for function Twenty client',
canReadAllObjectRecords: true,
canUpdateAllObjectRecords: false,
canSoftDeleteAllObjectRecords: false,
canDestroyAllObjectRecords: false,
canUpdateAllSettings: false,
canBeAssignedToAgents: false,
canBeAssignedToUsers: false,
canBeAssignedToApiKeys: false,
objectPermissions: [],
fieldPermissions: [],
permissionFlags: [],
});
This role’s universalIdentifier is referenced from application-config.ts as defaultRoleUniversalIdentifier:
*.role.ts declares what the role can do.
application-config.ts points to that role so your functions inherit its permissions.
Best practices
- Start from the scaffolded role, then progressively restrict it — the default grants broad read access, which is rarely what you want in production.
- Replace
objectPermissions and fieldPermissions with the exact objects and fields your functions actually need.
permissionFlags control access to platform-level capabilities. Keep them minimal.
- See a working example:
hello-world/src/roles/function-role.ts.