Tokens

Tokens authenticate applications to the MK.IO APIs. The Management API gives you two views: user-level management for your own tokens, and organization-level management for auditing or revoking tokens across the organization. A token never grants more than the user who created it has, so the main decision is how much of that access to expose.

Choosing a token type

There are four types. For automation, prefer restricted so an exposed token cannot do more than its job requires.

Create a full-access token

A token is created with POST. type and organizationId are always required.

• Terminal window

curl -X POST "https://app.mk.io/api/v1/user/tokens" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "type": "full-access",
    "description": "CI deployment token",
    "organizationId": "<ORG_ID>",
    "expireDate": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }'

The response includes the generated token as metadata.JWT. MK.IO does not store it, so it is visible only at creation time, for five minutes. Copy it somewhere secure immediately.

Create a restricted token

A restricted token adds a permissions object that must be a strict subset of your own capabilities. Read your access first so you know what you can grant:

curl -X GET "https://app.mk.io/api/v1/user/rbac" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"

Then build permissions from a subset of that structure. This example grants only asset operations on one project:

curl -X POST "https://app.mk.io/api/v1/user/tokens" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "type": "restricted",
    "description": "Asset automation, one project",
    "organizationId": "<ORG_ID>",
    "expireDate": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "permissions": {
      "core.project": {
        "<PROJECT_ID>": {
          "ams.asset": ["create", "delete", "get", "update"]
        }
      }
    }
  }'

Inspect and revoke

List or read your own tokens. Expired tokens are filtered out of the list.

curl -X GET "https://app.mk.io/api/v1/user/tokens" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"

A token record carries operational fields including issued, expires, lastUsed, revoked, and (for restricted tokens) permissions. Revoke one token, or all of your tokens at once:

curl -X DELETE "https://app.mk.io/api/v1/user/tokens/<TOKEN_ID>" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"

curl -X DELETE "https://app.mk.io/api/v1/user/tokens" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"

Use the revoke-all carefully: it affects all of your tokens across organizations.

Audit tokens across the organization

An organization admin can list every token with access to the organization, and revoke any of them:

curl -X GET "https://app.mk.io/api/v1/organization/tokens" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"
curl -X DELETE "https://app.mk.io/api/v1/organization/tokens/<TOKEN_ID>" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"

What goes wrong

The token is lost after creation. The JWT is shown once, for five minutes, and is never stored. If you miss it, revoke the token and create a new one.

• A restricted token returns 403. Its permissions must be a subset of your own access. Compare against /api/v1/user/rbac, and remember the token loses capabilities if your own access is later reduced.

• Forgetting the expiry ceiling. expireDate cannot be more than one year after creation.

What comes next

• Users and teams: the access model a token’s permissions draw from.

• Authentication and tokens: bearer-auth basics and UI-based personal token creation.