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POST
/
api
/
v1
/
api-keys
Create API key
curl --request POST \
  --url https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/api-keys \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "<string>",
  "actor_type": "user",
  "actor_name": "<string>"
}
'
{
  "id": "<string>",
  "short_id": "<string>",
  "name": "<string>",
  "prefix": "<string>",
  "last_used_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "revoked_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "key": "<string>"
}

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Authorizations

X-API-Key
string
header
required

Breadbox API key with format bb_<base62>. Carries either read_only or full_access scope. Write endpoints (and a handful of sensitive reads — /api-keys, /users/{user_id}/login) require full_access; endpoints that require it are flagged in their description.

Body

application/json
name
string
required
scope
enum<string>
required
Available options:
full_access,
read_only
actor_type
enum<string>
default:user

Attribution category. Defaults to user for human-driven integrations. agent keys are short-lived runtime credentials minted by the agent orchestrator and are auto-revoked after 1 hour by the startup cleanup sweep — do not request agent for long-lived integrations.

Available options:
user,
agent,
system
actor_name
string | null

Response

201 - application/json

Created key (plaintext returned once).

id
string
short_id
string
name
string
prefix
string
scope
enum<string>
Available options:
full_access,
read_only
last_used_at
string<date-time> | null
revoked_at
string<date-time> | null
created_at
string<date-time>
key
string

Plaintext key. Shown once on creation.