Sift Decisions API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Sift Decisions API
  description: 'Sift is a digital trust and safety platform that uses machine learning to detect and prevent online fraud and abuse - payment fraud, account takeover, account abuse, content abuse, and promotion abuse. This definition covers Sift''s public REST APIs: the Events API (stream user activity), the Score API (real-time Sift Scores 0-100 per abuse type), the Decisions API (apply/retrieve accept/watch/block decisions), the Workflow Status API, the legacy Labels API, the Verification API (OTP step-up), and the PSP Merchant Management API.


    MODELED SPECIFICATION - IMPORTANT: Sift does not publish a single machine-readable OpenAPI document. This file was MODELED by API Evangelist from Sift''s public developer documentation (developers.sift.com) and its officially maintained open-source client libraries (sift-python, sift-ruby, sift-java), which encode the exact paths, HTTP methods, and per-API versions. Endpoint paths, methods, versions, and authentication are confirmed against those sources. Request and response bodies are REPRESENTATIVE: Sift documents example payloads and field dictionaries rather than full JSON Schemas for most resources, so the schema shapes here are modeled from documented examples and may not enumerate every optional field. See review.yml for the confirmed-vs-modeled breakdown.


    Versioning is per API family: Events, Score, and Labels are on v205; Decisions, Workflows, and PSP Merchant Management are on v3; Verification is on v1.'
  version: '2026-07-12'
  contact:
    name: Sift Developer Documentation
    url: https://developers.sift.com/docs
  x-modeled: true
  x-modeled-by: API Evangelist
  x-modeled-sources:
  - https://developers.sift.com/docs
  - https://developers.sift.com/docs/curl/apis-overview
  - https://github.com/SiftScience/sift-python
servers:
- url: https://api.sift.com
  description: Sift production API (single public host)
security:
- apiKeyBasic: []
tags:
- name: Decisions
  description: Apply and retrieve decisions against users, orders, sessions, and content.
paths:
  /v3/accounts/{account_id}/decisions:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
    get:
      operationId: listDecisions
      tags:
      - Decisions
      summary: List configured decisions
      description: Lists the decisions configured for an account, optionally filtered by entity type and abuse type.
      parameters:
      - name: entity_type
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - user
          - order
          - session
          - content
      - name: abuse_types
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of configured decisions.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionList'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /v3/accounts/{account_id}/users/{user_id}/decisions:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/UserId'
    get:
      operationId: getUserDecisions
      tags:
      - Decisions
      summary: Get decision status for a user
      description: Retrieves the latest decisions applied to a user, per abuse type.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The user's current decision status.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionStatus'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
    post:
      operationId: applyUserDecision
      tags:
      - Decisions
      summary: Apply a decision to a user
      description: Applies a decision (accept, watch, block) to a user.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The decision was applied.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionApplyResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /v3/accounts/{account_id}/users/{user_id}/orders/{order_id}/decisions:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/UserId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/OrderId'
    post:
      operationId: applyOrderDecision
      tags:
      - Decisions
      summary: Apply a decision to an order
      description: Applies a decision to a specific order belonging to a user.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The decision was applied.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionApplyResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /v3/accounts/{account_id}/users/{user_id}/sessions/{session_id}/decisions:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/UserId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/SessionId'
    post:
      operationId: applySessionDecision
      tags:
      - Decisions
      summary: Apply a decision to a session
      description: Applies a decision to a specific session belonging to a user.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The decision was applied.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionApplyResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /v3/accounts/{account_id}/users/{user_id}/content/{content_id}/decisions:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/UserId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContentId'
    post:
      operationId: applyContentDecision
      tags:
      - Decisions
      summary: Apply a decision to content
      description: Applies a decision to a specific piece of content created by a user.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The decision was applied.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionApplyResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    Decision:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        entity_type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - user
          - order
          - session
          - content
        abuse_type:
          type: string
        category:
          type: string
          enum:
          - block
          - watch
          - accept
    DecisionList:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Decision'
    ApiError:
      type: object
      description: Modeled error envelope. Sift returns a numeric status and error_message.
      properties:
        status:
          type: integer
          description: Sift status code (0 indicates success; non-zero indicates an error).
        error_message:
          type: string
        time:
          type: integer
          format: int64
    DecisionRequest:
      type: object
      description: Request to apply a decision to an entity (modeled from documented examples).
      required:
      - decision_id
      - source
      properties:
        decision_id:
          type: string
          description: The ID of a decision configured in the Sift console.
          example: block_user_payment_abuse
        source:
          type: string
          enum:
          - MANUAL_REVIEW
          - AUTOMATED_RULE
          - CHARGEBACK
          description: What produced the decision.
        analyst:
          type: string
          description: Identifier (e.g. email) of the analyst, required when source is MANUAL_REVIEW.
        description:
          type: string
        time:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: Epoch milliseconds the decision was made.
    DecisionStatus:
      type: object
      description: The latest decisions applied to an entity, keyed by abuse type.
      properties:
        decisions:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: object
            properties:
              decision:
                type: object
                properties:
                  id:
                    type: string
              time:
                type: integer
                format: int64
              webhook_succeeded:
                type: boolean
    DecisionApplyResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        entity:
          type: object
          properties:
            id:
              type: string
            type:
              type: string
        decision:
          type: object
          properties:
            id:
              type: string
        time:
          type: integer
          format: int64
  parameters:
    ContentId:
      name: content_id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique identifier for the content, URL-encoded.
      schema:
        type: string
    OrderId:
      name: order_id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique identifier for the order, URL-encoded.
      schema:
        type: string
    UserId:
      name: user_id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique identifier for the user, URL-encoded.
      schema:
        type: string
    AccountId:
      name: account_id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Your numeric Sift Account ID.
      schema:
        type: string
    SessionId:
      name: session_id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique identifier for the session, URL-encoded.
      schema:
        type: string
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: The requested resource was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyBasic:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: HTTP Basic authentication using your Sift REST API key as the username and an empty password. Ingestion APIs (Events, Score, Labels) also accept the key as $api_key in the JSON request body. Account-scoped APIs (Decisions, Workflows, PSP Merchant Management) require your numeric Account ID in the path in addition to the API key.