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# Create a data API token



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json post /api/v1/tokens
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Esheria Regulatory API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    Citation-backed regulatory pack API for pack discovery, obligations,
    applicability checks, version history, diffs, change events, evidence
    requirements, filing rules, penalty facts, legal review audit metadata,
    graph queries, and claim verification.
servers:
  - url: https://api.esheria.ai
    description: Production API
  - url: http://127.0.0.1:8080
    description: Local development runtime
security: []
paths:
  /api/v1/tokens:
    post:
      tags:
        - API Tokens
      summary: Create a data API token
      operationId: create_api_token_api_v1_tokens_post
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKey'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiTokenCreateRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                status: error
                errors:
                  - code: unauthorized
                    message: Invalid API key
                trace_id: trace-123
        '402':
          description: Credits exhausted
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                status: error
                errors:
                  - code: credits_exhausted
                    message: API credits exhausted
                trace_id: trace-123
        '409':
          description: Conflict
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                status: error
                errors:
                  - code: duplicate_token_name
                    message: An active data token already uses that name.
                trace_id: trace-123
        '422':
          description: Validation error
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                status: error
                errors:
                  - code: validation_error
                    message: Invalid payload
                    field: body.name
                trace_id: trace-123
        '503':
          description: Billing or dependency unavailable
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                status: error
                errors:
                  - code: billing_unavailable
                    message: Billing ledger is unavailable
                trace_id: trace-123
      security:
        - ApiKeyAuth: []
components:
  parameters:
    IdempotencyKey:
      name: idempotency-key
      in: header
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Unique key for mutating request replay protection.
      example: claim-verify-2026-06-01T120000Z
  schemas:
    ApiTokenCreateRequest:
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          maxLength: 120
          minLength: 2
          title: Name
        scopes:
          anyOf:
            - items:
                type: string
              type: array
            - type: 'null'
          title: Scopes
        pack_entitlements:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
          title: Pack Entitlements
        expires_at:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              format: date-time
            - type: 'null'
          title: Expires At
        metadata:
          additionalProperties: true
          type: object
          title: Metadata
      additionalProperties: false
      type: object
      required:
        - name
      title: ApiTokenCreateRequest
      example:
        name: Production data token
        pack_entitlements:
          - UK-DATA-PROTECTION-PRIVACY
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key
      description: Client API key issued by Esheria.
      x-default: YOUR_ESHERIA_API_KEY

````