---
title: "overlane api-key create"
description: "Create a team API key; the secret is shown once"
---

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# overlane api-key create

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Creates an API key for the team. A key carries scopes (read, or read and write), may be limited to one project, expires (90 days by default, one year at most) and may carry its own calls-per-minute cap under the plan limit. A key acts as an agent for the member who made it and never holds more than that member. Creating a key is in the secrets autonomy class: an agent needs an independent approval first (run it, read the approval it names, then retry with OVERLANE_APPROVAL set). Use the key as `Authorization: Bearer \<key\>`.

## Usage

```sh
overlane api-key create [--service URL] [--team TENANT_ID] --label TEXT [--scope read|write] [--project PROJECT_ID] [--ttl-days DAYS] [--rate-limit N] [--dry-run]
```

## Flags

| Flag | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `--service` | string | no |  | The service address (default: OVERLANE_SERVICE_URL, then the project's binding, then the hosted service) |
| `--team` | string | no |  | The team (tenant) to act on (default: the one your token belongs to) |
| `--label` | string | yes |  | What the key is for, such as ci-nightly |
| `--scope` | one of `read`, `write` | no | `read` | read, or write (which includes read) |
| `--project` | string | no |  | Limit the key to one project |
| `--ttl-days` | string | no | `90` | Lifetime in days, 1 to 365 |
| `--rate-limit` | string | no |  | Calls per minute this key may make (the plan limit also applies) |
| `--dry-run` | boolean | no |  | Print the requests and file changes this command would make, then stop. Needs no credentials. |

## Examples

```sh
overlane api-key create --label ci-nightly --scope read
overlane api-key create --label deploy --scope write --project proj-1 --ttl-days 30 --rate-limit 120
overlane api-key create --label ci --dry-run
```

## Behavior

- Effect: `write` (changes local or hosted state).
- Needs credentials: yes. Uses the network: yes.
- Supports `--dry-run`: yes. Accepts `--force`: no.
- Machine-readable description: `overlane schema api-key create`.

## Result

With `--json` (the default when stdout is not a terminal) the command prints this JSON Schema's shape on stdout.

```json
{
  "anyOf": [
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "tenantId": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "key": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "keyId": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "label": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "prefix": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "scopes": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "project": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "rateLimitPerMinute": {
              "type": "number"
            },
            "expiresAt": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "lastUsedAt": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "revokedAt": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "rotatedFrom": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "keyId",
            "label",
            "prefix",
            "scopes",
            "expiresAt"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        },
        "secret": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "next": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "tenantId",
        "key",
        "secret",
        "next"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "dryRun": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "const": true
        },
        "service": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "requests": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "method": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "path": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "body": {},
              "note": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "method",
              "path"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": false
          }
        },
        "commands": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "writes": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "path": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "action": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "write",
                  "append",
                  "delete"
                ]
              },
              "description": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "path",
              "action",
              "description"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": false
          }
        },
        "notes": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "dryRun",
        "requests",
        "commands",
        "writes",
        "notes"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  ]
}
```

See [exit codes](/cli/#exit-codes) for the status the process returns.

Source: https://docs.overlane.app/cli/api-key-create/index.mdx