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Admin API Keys are team-scoped credentials for managing your Validation Cloud setup programmatically. Use them to provision Node API endpoints, read usage, or wire Validation Cloud into your own CI/CD. Admin Keys page
Availability. Admin API Keys are available on the Scale and Private Node API plans (not Free). Within those teams, only Admins can view this page, create keys, or revoke them. See Teams and roles for how roles differ.

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Scopes

Each key is assigned a single scope. Choose the least-privileged one that does the job.

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Creating a key

  1. On the Admin API Keys page: https://app.validationcloud.io/api-keys, choose a Scope (Read or Read & Write).
  2. Give the key a descriptive Name (for example, ci-provisioner).
  3. Click Create key, then copy the key and store it somewhere secure.
Keys are shown once and can’t be retrieved later. If you lose one, revoke it and create a new one. Treat keys like passwords, store them in a secrets manager and never commit them to source control.
Keys are prefixed with vc_adm_. Pass yours in the Authorization header, using the ApiKey scheme, on every request:

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Revoking a key

Find the key in the Active Keys list and click Revoke.
Revoking is immediate and permanent. Anything still using the key will start failing authentication. Roll your applications over to a new key before revoking the old one.