🔑Mint your API key

Create the API key that authenticates your AI client as your Dapta workspace. Keys are owner-only and shown once, so save yours right away.

Your API key is what connects your AI client to your Dapta workspace. You create it once from the admin panel.

Only workspace owners can mint or revoke keys. If the Create API key button is missing, you are not an owner: ask your workspace owner to mint a key for you.

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Step 1: From anywhere in Dapta, click your account email at the bottom of the left sidebar, then choose MCP Access.

Open the account menu and choose MCP Access.

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Step 2: On the Connect Dapta to Claude page, use the Workspace dropdown in the top right to pick the workspace you want the key for. Keys are scoped to a single workspace. Then, under Your API key, click Create API key.

The MCP Access page. Select your workspace, then click Create API key.

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Step 3: Save the key immediately. Dapta opens a one-time dialog with everything you need to connect:

• Your API key (click Copy to save it).

• A Download Claude Desktop plugin (.zip) button, the recommended path for Claude Desktop and Cowork.

• The Claude Code connect command, with your key already inside.

Save whichever you need for your client, then tick I've saved this key in a safe place before you can close the dialog.

The one-time key dialog. You will not see the key again after closing, and the plugin can only be downloaded from here.

If you lose the key, you cannot view it again. You will have to revoke it and mint a new one. Remember: only one active key is allowed per workspace, so revoke the old key before creating a replacement.

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Troubleshooting

If key creation fails with a connection error, the platform's identity service may be unreachable (for example, a VPN is not connected). Reconnect and try again.

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Next step

With your key in hand, connect your AI client.

🖥️Connect Claude Desktop & Cowork⌨️Connect Claude Code