# Roles A role is a set of permissions that people in the account share, such as "Web editors". Give a role a permission and everyone in it has that permission. Roles used to be called groups, and some fields still use that name. Every account starts with two roles: Everyone, which every user is in, and Account administrators. A role is also an [assignee](https://developers.silktide.com/v1/platform/assignees.md), so it can be given things the way a person can. In Silktide itself: [Roles screen](https://docs.silktide.com/settings/screens/roles), in Help. ## Operations - [List the account's roles](https://developers.silktide.com/v1/platform/roles/list-roles.md): `GET /v1/roles` - [Create a role](https://developers.silktide.com/v1/platform/roles/create-role.md): `POST /v1/roles`