Hello Vercel team,

I’d like to request support for assigning a team member role directly from the CLI when inviting users to a team.

Problem

Currently, the vercel teams invite command does not support specifying a role, which complicates automation flows.

Current Behavior

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vercel teams invite user@example.com --scope my-team

Proposed Behavior

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vercel teams invite user@example.com --scope my-team --role DEVELOPER

This would help with onboarding and automation flows where the invited user needs a specific non-default team role immediately.

Workaround

At the moment, the workaround is to call the Team Members API directly instead of using the CLI. For example:

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curl -X POST \
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  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VERCEL_TOKEN" \
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  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
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  -d '{"email":"user@example.com","role":"DEVELOPER"}' \
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  "https://api.vercel.com/v1/teams/my-team/members"

I prepared a draft PR for this here:

https://github.com/vercel/vercel/pull/15567

GitHub

Add role selection to vercel teams invite by shige · Pull Request #15567 · vercel/vercel

Summary add --role <ROLE> to vercel teams invite validate and normalize supported team member roles before calling the API pass role only when explicitly provided, add telemetry, and cover t...

Would this be the right direction for the CLI?

If the command shape looks acceptable, I’m happy to keep iterating on the PR.

Thanks!