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

> ## Agent Instructions
> Use Stable documentation by default. Honor an explicit Beta request or a URL under /docs/beta/. If the requested version conflicts with the installed CLI package or API origin, clarify the target before writing integration code.
> Pages under /docs/beta/ document Beta; other product pages document Stable. Keep the CLI package, commands, API origin, and credentials within the selected version. State the documentation version in your answer.
> For MCP search, always pass version: Stable or version: Beta. Unfiltered search mixes both versions. For filesystem reads, keep Beta queries under /beta/ and exclude /beta/ from Stable queries; discover paths before reading them.
> The public docs base is https://photon.codes/docs. Convert MCP page paths to public URLs under that base, preserving /beta/ when present. Read https://photon.codes/docs/skill.md for version selection and https://photon.codes/docs/llms.txt for the version indexes.

# Create an Account Service Key

> Create an Account Service Key: createAccountServiceKey in the TypeScript, Python and Rust clients.

`POST /v1/account/service-keys`

Creates a service key for the authenticated account with the supplied name and optional expiresAt. Returns key metadata and a one-time credential; store the credential securely because it cannot be retrieved through the listing endpoint. These credentials act as the account and must not be distributed as project-scoped keys. Supply the required Idempotency-Key header.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="TypeScript">
    ```typescript TypeScript theme={null}
    photon.account.createAccountServiceKey(input: CreateAccountServiceKeyInput, options?: RequestOptions): Promise<CreateAccountServiceKeyOutput>
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Python">
    ```python Python theme={null}
    photon.account.create_account_service_key(input: CreateAccountServiceKeyInput) -> models.CreateAccountServiceKeyResponse
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Rust">
    ```rust Rust theme={null}
    client.create_account_service_key(idempotency_key: String, body: &types::CreateAccountServiceKeyRequest).await -> Result<ResponseValue<types::CreateAccountServiceKeyResponse>, Error<CreateAccountServiceKeyError>>
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

<RequestExample>
  ```typescript TypeScript theme={null}
  import { Photon } from "@photon-ai/api";

  const photon = new Photon({
    headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PHOTON_API_TOKEN}` },
  });
  const result = await photon.account.createAccountServiceKey({
    headers: {
      idempotencyKey: "idempotencyKey",
    },
    body: {
      name: "name",
    },
  });
  ```

  ```python Python theme={null}
  import os

  from photon_api import Photon
  from photon_api.rpc_generated import CreateAccountServiceKeyInput

  photon = Photon(headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PHOTON_API_TOKEN']}"})
  result = photon.account.create_account_service_key(
      CreateAccountServiceKeyInput.model_validate({
          "headers": {
              "Idempotency-Key": "idempotencyKey",
          },
          "body": {
              "name": "name",
          },
      })
  )
  ```

  ```rust Rust theme={null}
  use photon_ai_api::{Credential, PhotonClientBuilder, SecretString};

  let token = std::env::var("PHOTON_API_TOKEN")?;
  let client = PhotonClientBuilder::new()
      .credential("accountServiceKey", Credential::Bearer(SecretString::from(token)))
      .build()?;
  let result = client
      .create_account_service_key(
          "idempotencyKey".to_owned(),
          &serde_json::from_value(serde_json::json!({
              "name": "name",
          }))?,
      )
      .await
      .map_err(|error| format!("{error:?}"))?
      .into_inner();
  ```
</RequestExample>

<ResponseExample>
  ```json 201 theme={null}
  {
    "secret": "string",
    "serviceKey": {
      "accountId": "string",
      "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "expiresAt": null,
      "name": "string",
      "revokedAt": null,
      "serviceKeyId": "string"
    }
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>

## Parameters

<ParamField header="Idempotency-Key" type={"string"} required>
  Identifies one logical mutation across retries.
</ParamField>

## Body

<ParamField body="expiresAt" type={"string (date-time)"} />

<ParamField body="name" type={"string"} required />

## Returns

**`201`** The created Account Service Key and its one-time credential. CreateAccountServiceKeyResponse

<ResponseField name="secret" type={"string"} required />

<ResponseField name="serviceKey" type={"AccountServiceKey"} required />


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