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Vault Admin keys

Connect OpenAI with your Vault admin key

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Your OpenAI Vault admin key lets Outlet manage app access in your account. Outlet creates a separate Vault App key for each app you approve. Your Vault admin key stays encrypted in Outlet. Apps never receive it.

Heads up: this is your API account, not ChatGPT. An OpenAI API account lives at platform.openai.com and has its own balance, separate from a ChatGPT subscription. Apps connected through Outlet spend from the API balance.

What you need

You need the Owner role in your OpenAI organization and API billing set up. Vault admin keys start with sk-admin-. Create yours on the Admin keys page. Direct API keys from the API keys page will not connect your account to Vault.

An API key made with Service account can be used in Direct. It is not a Vault admin key. For Vault, open Admin keys instead.

Steps

A

Sign in to the OpenAI platform

Go to platform.openai.com and sign in. If you belong to more than one organization, make sure the right one is selected in the top-left switcher.

Only an owner of the OpenAI organization can make an admin key.

B

Open the Admin keys page

Go straight to platform.openai.com/settings/organization/admin-keys, or open Settings and pick Admin keys.

The OpenAI Admin keys page with the settings sidebar entry and the Create new Admin key button marked
1  Admin keys in the settings sidebar.  2  Create new Admin key.
C

Create the key and copy it

Click Create new Admin key, name it Outlet, leave Expiration on Never and Permissions on All, then click Create admin key. Copy the sk-admin-... key right away. OpenAI shows it only once. If you lose it, delete it there and make a new one.

The Create new admin key dialog with the Name field, Expiration menu and Create admin key button marked
1  Name  ·  2  Expiration, already Never  ·  3  Create admin key
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.

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

Learn more

OpenAI's official article: Admin and Audit Logs API for the API Platform.