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# Create an API token

> Creates a personal API token that acts as the caller, in this household. The response is the only time the key is shown. `operationId` is spent once: a repeat is refused, and mints nothing.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json post /v1/settings/tokens
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: onosso
  version: 0.0.0
  description: >-
    The household's API: the week, the people and the sessions the web app reads
    and changes.
servers: []
security: []
tags:
  - name: Week
    description: The household's week, day by day.
  - name: People
    description: The people who make up the household.
  - name: Pets
    description: The pets of the house.
  - name: Invites
    description: Links that let someone join.
  - name: Sessions
    description: Where you are signed in.
  - name: Tokens
    description: Your personal API tokens.
  - name: Address
    description: Where the household lives.
  - name: Messages
    description: What each person receives from the product, and when.
  - name: Questions
    description: 'What needs a person: one queue, the same in the app and on WhatsApp.'
  - name: Shopping
    description: 'The household''s one list: places, items and marks.'
  - name: Conversation
    description: >-
      Each person's one conversation with the assistant, the same in the app and
      on WhatsApp.
  - name: MCP
    description: The house for an MCP client such as Claude Desktop, with a personal token.
paths:
  /v1/settings/tokens:
    post:
      tags:
        - Tokens
      summary: Create an API token
      description: >-
        Creates a personal API token that acts as the caller, in this household.
        The response is the only time the key is shown. `operationId` is spent
        once: a repeat is refused, and mints nothing.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                operationId:
                  type: string
                  format: uuid
                name:
                  type: string
                  maxLength: 240
              required:
                - operationId
                - name
      responses:
        '201':
          description: 'The token, and its key: keep it now.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  token:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiToken'
                  key:
                    type: string
                required:
                  - token
                  - key
        '400':
          description: The body is not valid.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DomainError'
        '401':
          description: The session is missing or invalid.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          description: >-
            The request origin is not allowed, or the request carries an
            `Authorization` header.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                anyOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Forbidden'
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DomainError'
        '409':
          description: The `operationId` was already used.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DomainError'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServiceUnavailable'
        '504':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RequestTimeout'
      security:
        - session: []
components:
  schemas:
    ApiToken:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        maskedKey:
          type: string
        createdAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        lastUsedAt:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          format: date-time
      required:
        - id
        - name
        - maskedKey
        - createdAt
        - lastUsedAt
    DomainError:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        details:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            nullable: true
      required:
        - code
        - details
    Unauthorized:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          enum:
            - Unauthorized
        statusCode:
          type: number
          enum:
            - 401
      required:
        - message
        - statusCode
    Forbidden:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          enum:
            - Forbidden
        statusCode:
          type: number
          enum:
            - 403
      required:
        - message
        - statusCode
    Degraded:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          enum:
            - request.timeout
            - service.unavailable
        correlationId:
          type: string
      required:
        - code
        - correlationId
  responses:
    ServiceUnavailable:
      description: A dependency is unavailable; retry after Retry-After seconds.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Degraded'
    RequestTimeout:
      description: The request outlived its deadline.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Degraded'
  securitySchemes:
    session:
      type: apiKey
      in: cookie
      name: __Secure-better-auth.session_token
      description: The session cookie set when you sign in to the web app.

````

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