> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.judt.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create an App token

> Creates an API token that reaches only one App, for up to 24 hours. Give it to an agent or an MCP client that should work on that App and nothing else. The token can't reach other Apps, create Apps, or create tokens. It stops working at `expires_at`, and never outlives the token that created it, so it can't extend that token's access.

Only an organization-wide API token can create one. The response is the only place the token's value appears, so store it before you continue. If the response is lost, retry with the same `Idempotency-Key`: the retry returns the same token with a new value, and the earlier value stops working. To revoke a token before it expires, use the dashboard.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /api/tokens
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Judt API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    The Judt API creates and runs Apps. Each App has a sandbox, where you and
    agents edit and run its source, and a production deployment that serves it.


    ## Authentication


    Send an API token or an OAuth access token in the `Authorization` header.


    - **API token:** send it as a bearer token. A token belongs to one
    organization, and you create and revoke tokens in the dashboard. A token
    scoped to one App can reach only that App. An organization-wide token can
    also create a short-lived token for one App with `POST /api/tokens`, to give
    to an agent or an MCP client.

    - **OAuth access token:** an agent gets one when a person approves its
    access to one organization, so the person never handles a token. Reads need
    the `apps:read` scope, and changes need `apps:write`. To register and sign
    in, follow https://judt.ai/auth.md. Send the token as a bearer token, or
    with a DPoP proof if it's bound to a DPoP key. One access token can work on
    both this API and the MCP server at https://api.judt.ai/mcp.


    ## Sandboxes


    Creating an App reserves its address, but it doesn't start a sandbox or
    publish anything. There's no endpoint to start a sandbox. A request that
    needs the sandbox starts it first, so the first request after the sandbox
    goes idle takes longer. Files, Git, commands, commits, restores, previews,
    and deployments all need the sandbox.


    The sandbox stops on its own when it's idle. If `sandbox_status` is
    `failed`, the most recent start failed, and the API retries it while the
    sandbox is needed.


    ## Pagination


    A list returns one page at a time, in the form `{"results": [...],
    "has_more": true, "next_cursor": "CURSOR"}`. To get the next page, list
    again with `cursor` set to `next_cursor`, and the same `sort` and filters.
    Results that arrive while you page don't shift your pages. On the last page,
    `has_more` is `false`, and `next_cursor` still finds results added later.


    ## Retries


    A request that creates, changes, or deletes something returns `200` after
    the work is done, with the resource as it is afterward. To retry a request
    safely, send an `Idempotency-Key` header. For 30 days, a retry with the same
    key and input returns the first request's result instead of repeating the
    work. If you don't send a key, the API generates one and returns it in the
    `Idempotency-Key` response header. Setting and deleting a Secret take no
    key, because repeating them changes nothing. A visitor token or a preview
    link is created fresh each time, because nothing is stored to repeat.


    The API records file writes and deletes, commands, commits, and restores
    before it runs them. The response status tells you what to do next:


    - `503` or `504`: the action is recorded but not finished. To get its
    result, retry with the same key. A new key would run the action again.

    - `4xx` or `502`: the result is final. A retry with the same key returns the
    same response.


    A `504 request_timeout` response says how far the work got and which event
    to check. The work continues, and a retry with the same key picks it up.


    ## Troubleshooting


    To see what happened to an App's sandbox, deployments, and deletion, list
    its events with `GET /api/apps/{id}/events`. To see what the App's code did,
    including requests, output, exceptions, and failed builds, list its logs
    with `GET /api/apps/{id}/logs`.


    ## Time limits


    Requests have the following time limits:


    - Stopping the sandbox: 120 seconds.

    - File writes, commits, and restores: 120 seconds.

    - Commands: the command's `timeout_seconds`, up to 120 seconds, plus 60
    seconds to stop it and save its result.

    - Publishing, unpublishing, deleting an App, and changing production
    settings: 540 seconds, including any sandbox start.


    If a file write, commit, restore, or command has to start the sandbox, it
    gets up to 120 more seconds.


    ## Errors


    An error returns a JSON body in the form `{"error": {"code": "CODE",
    "message": "MESSAGE", "detail": "DETAIL", "request_id": "REQUEST_ID"}}`. The
    `code` value is stable, so check it rather than `message`. The `detail`
    value is optional. When a parameter or a body field isn't valid, the request
    returns `400 invalid_request`, `message` names the field, and `detail` lists
    every problem if there's more than one.


    When the server rejects a credential, it returns a JSON error body and sets
    the `WWW-Authenticate` header. A `401` response includes the
    `resource_metadata` URL in `WWW-Authenticate` (RFC 9728):


    | Status | Error code / header | Cause | Action |

    |---|---|---|---|

    | `401` | `unauthenticated` | The request has no credential, or the API
    token or OAuth access token is invalid, expired, or revoked. | Send a valid
    API token or OAuth access token. |

    | `401` | `invalid_token` | `WWW-Authenticate` error when an API token or
    OAuth access token is expired, revoked, or issued for a different `resource`
    audience. | Refresh the access token, or request a token for the target
    server. |

    | `401` | `invalid_dpop_proof` | The `DPoP` proof header is missing,
    expired, replayed, or signed for a different HTTP method or URL. | Create a
    new DPoP proof for the request method and URL. |

    | `403` | `insufficient_scope` | The OAuth token does not have the required
    scope (`apps:read` or `apps:write`). | Request authorization with the scope
    named in `WWW-Authenticate`. |

    | `403` | `app_scoped_token` | An App-scoped API token called `POST
    /api/apps` or `POST /api/tokens`. | Use an organization-wide API token. |

    | `403` | `api_token_required` | An OAuth access token called `POST
    /api/tokens`. | Use an organization-wide API token. |

    | `403` | `sign_in_required` | A Personal Agent Session Token was used
    before the user signed in or after the user signed out. | Tell the user to
    sign in to the Session. |

    | `403` | `forbidden` | Your organization role (`member`) does not allow
    this action. | Ask an organization `owner` or `admin` to do the action. |
servers:
  - url: https://api.judt.ai
security: []
tags:
  - name: Account
    description: >-
      See who a credential acts for: the person, the organization, and what the
      credential can reach.
  - name: Apps
    description: Create, update, and delete Apps, and control who can reach them.
  - name: Tokens
    description: >-
      Create short-lived API tokens that reach one App, to give to an agent or
      an MCP client.
  - name: Secrets
    description: >-
      Store values, such as API keys, that an App reads at runtime. Responses
      never include Secret values.
  - name: Files
    description: Read and write the source files in an App's sandbox.
  - name: Sandbox
    description: >-
      Run commands, use Git, commit and restore source, and preview the App's
      sandbox.
  - name: Deployments
    description: Publish an App's source to production, and take it offline.
  - name: Monitoring
    description: See what happened to an App, and what its code did.
  - name: Templates
    description: The starting points for new Apps.
  - name: Agents
    description: >-
      Work with the in-product coding agent: sessions, turns, events, and the
      models it runs on. The agent itself works only through this API.
  - name: Feedback
    description: Tell the Judt team about bugs, friction, and anything else.
paths:
  /api/tokens:
    post:
      tags:
        - Tokens
      summary: Create an App token
      description: >-
        Creates an API token that reaches only one App, for up to 24 hours. Give
        it to an agent or an MCP client that should work on that App and nothing
        else. The token can't reach other Apps, create Apps, or create tokens.
        It stops working at `expires_at`, and never outlives the token that
        created it, so it can't extend that token's access.


        Only an organization-wide API token can create one. The response is the
        only place the token's value appears, so store it before you continue.
        If the response is lost, retry with the same `Idempotency-Key`: the
        retry returns the same token with a new value, and the earlier value
        stops working. To revoke a token before it expires, use the dashboard.
      operationId: create_app_token
      parameters:
        - name: Idempotency-Key
          in: header
          required: false
          description: >-
            A key that identifies this request for retries, up to 200 printable
            characters. A retry with the same key and input returns the first
            request's result instead of repeating the work. If you omit the key,
            the API generates one and returns it in the `Idempotency-Key`
            response header.
          schema:
            type: string
            minLength: 1
            maxLength: 200
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $schema: https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema
              type: object
              properties:
                name:
                  type: string
                  minLength: 1
                  maxLength: 100
                  description: >-
                    A name for the token, up to 100 characters. The dashboard
                    lists the token by this name.
                app_id:
                  type: string
                  pattern: ^app_[0-9A-Za-z]{24}$
                  description: >-
                    The App that the token reaches. The token can't reach any
                    other App or create Apps.
                expires_in:
                  default: 3600
                  description: >-
                    How long the token works, in seconds, from 60 to 86400 (24
                    hours). Default: 3600. The token never outlives the token
                    that created it.
                  type: integer
                  minimum: 60
                  maximum: 86400
                  example: 300
              required:
                - name
                - app_id
              additionalProperties: false
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The new token, with its value.
          headers:
            Idempotency-Key:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: >-
                The key this request ran under: the one you sent, or one the API
                generated. To pick up the work after a timeout, retry with this
                key.
            Idempotency-Retry-Window:
              schema:
                type: string
                example: '2592000'
              description: >-
                How long you can retry with the same key, in seconds: 2592000
                (30 days).
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreatedApiToken'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '403':
          description: >-
            - `app_scoped_token`: the request used an App-scoped token, which
            can't create tokens.

            - `api_token_required`: the request used an OAuth access token. Use
            an organization-wide API token.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '409':
          description: >-
            - `token_revoked`: the token that this key created was revoked.
            Create another with a new key.

            - `idempotency_conflict`: the key was used with a different request.

            - `idempotency_expired`: the key is too old to reuse.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '413':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '504':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
      security:
        - ApiToken: []
components:
  schemas:
    CreatedApiToken:
      $schema: https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: The token's ID, which starts with `tok_`.
        organization_id:
          type: string
          description: The organization that the token belongs to.
        app_id:
          description: >-
            The one App an App-scoped token reaches; null for the whole
            organization
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
        name:
          type: string
          description: The token's name.
        preview:
          type: string
          description: >-
            `judt_***` and the token's last four characters, to tell tokens
            apart.
        expires_at:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              format: date-time
              example: '2026-10-03T14:01:30.000Z'
            - type: 'null'
          description: When the token stops working; null if it never expires.
        last_used_at:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              format: date-time
              example: '2026-10-03T14:01:30.000Z'
            - type: 'null'
          description: >-
            When the token was last used, to the minute; null if it hasn't been
            used.
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2026-10-03T14:01:30.000Z'
        token:
          type: string
          description: >-
            The token. Send it as a bearer token in the `Authorization` header,
            to the API or the MCP server. This is the only response that
            includes it.
      required:
        - id
        - organization_id
        - app_id
        - name
        - preview
        - expires_at
        - last_used_at
        - created_at
        - token
      additionalProperties: false
    Error:
      type: object
      required:
        - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          required:
            - code
            - message
            - request_id
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              description: A stable code for the error, such as `not_found`.
            message:
              type: string
              description: A readable explanation of the error.
            detail:
              type: string
              description: >-
                More information, if any: the sandbox's error, a provider
                message, or, for a `504`, how far the work got and the ID of its
                latest event.
            request_id:
              type: string
              description: The request's ID. Include it when you contact support.
  responses:
    Error:
      description: An error, with its code and the request ID.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    ApiToken:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        An API token for one organization. You create and revoke tokens in the
        dashboard. A token scoped to one App can reach only that App, so give
        that kind of token to an agent. An organization-wide token can create a
        short-lived one with `POST /api/tokens`.

````

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