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Vault Admin keys

Connect Anthropic with your Vault admin key

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Your Anthropic Vault admin key lets Outlet manage app access in your account. Outlet creates a workspace for each app you approve. You create that app’s Vault App key inside the workspace. Your Vault admin key stays encrypted in Outlet. Apps never receive it.

Heads up: this is your API account, not your Claude subscription. The API account lives at platform.claude.com and has its own balance, separate from a Claude Pro or Max plan. Apps connected through Outlet spend from the API balance.

What you need

You need the admin role in your Anthropic API organization. Create your Vault admin key on the Admin keys page at platform.claude.com. Vault admin keys start with sk-ant-admin. A Direct API key will not connect your account to Vault.

Steps

A

Sign in to the Claude Console

Go to platform.claude.com and sign in. Older links to console.anthropic.com land in the same place.

Only an admin of the Anthropic organization can make an admin key.

B

Set up your organization (skip if you have one)

Open Organization settings in the sidebar. If Anthropic asks you to create an organization, do it; solo accounts are fine, an organization of one is normal. Admin keys lives in the same section.

The Claude Console Organization settings page with the Organization and Admin keys sidebar entries marked
1  Organization  ·  2  Admin keys, same sidebar section
C

Create the admin key and copy it

Open Admin keys at platform.claude.com/settings/admin-keys. Create an admin key named Outlet. Copy it before closing the dialog. Anthropic shows the full key only once.

The Admin keys page with the sidebar entry, the Create admin key button and Anthropic's warning line marked
1  Admin keys  ·  2  Create admin key  ·  boxed: Anthropic's own warning
D

Paste it into Outlet

Back on Outlet, paste your Vault admin key into the Vault admin key field. Then review the app’s Vault access and cap.

E

Later, when an app connects

After you approve Vault access, create an API key in the workspace named on Outlet. On Anthropic’s API keys page, set Scope to that workspace.

On the API keys page, click Create key. Set Expires to Never. Set Scope to the workspace named on Outlet. Copy the API key and return to Outlet.

Paste it into the Vault App key field on Outlet.

Never paste your Vault admin key into an app. Enter it only on Outlet. The app receives its own Vault App key.

Learn more

Anthropic's official pages: Create an Admin API key, Admin API overview and Console roles and permissions.