Authentication
Send an API key as a bearer token. The key must carry the billing.manage permission; a key without it is refused with 403, not 404.
Where your organisation id goes
This endpoint takes org_id as a field in the JSON body.
Your organisation id is on the API keys screen in your dashboard, beside the key itself. It is the same id in every call you make.
Try it
Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.
curl -X POST https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/ai/images/credentials \
-H "Authorization: Bearer zdk_live_…" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "provider": <AiImageProvider>, "api_key": <string> }'Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console
Details
Puts the key in Vault and records a pointer. Any existing live key for the same provider is revoked in the same transaction. ⭐ **The key is tested immediately, by generating a real image**, and the result is on the response. An auth probe is green against a model id that no longer exists, so the only check worth returning is one that actually draws something. A key that does not work is still stored and still a `201` — the row records `last_check_ok: false` and the provider's own words in `last_check_error`, because "we saved it and it does not work" is the successful outcome of this request and a `4xx` would leave the screen unable to say why. Requires `billing.manage`.
Request body
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
provider | AiImageProvider | Yes | An image-generation provider. ⛔ Deliberately a different enum from the text `provider` on `AiCredential`: Anthropic publishes no image model and xAI publishes no text model we u… |
api_key | string | Yes | The key itself. Written straight to Vault and never returned. |
label | string | No | — |
org_id | Uuid | No | UUIDv7 identifier — sortable by creation time (docs/02 §8). |
Response
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
id | Uuid | Yes | UUIDv7 identifier — sortable by creation time (docs/02 §8). |
provider | AiImageProvider | Yes | An image-generation provider. ⛔ Deliberately a different enum from the text `provider` on `AiCredential`: Anthropic publishes no image model and xAI publishes no text model we u… |
label | string | Yes | — |
verified_at | object | No | The last time a **real image generation** on this key succeeded. ⛔ `null` means never proven, not broken. Moved only by a generation, never by a cheap auth probe: a probe proves… |
last_checked_at | object | No | The last time any check ran, pass or fail. Separate from `verified_at` so *"we have not looked recently"* is distinguishable from *"we looked and it failed"*. |
last_check_ok | object | No | — |
last_check_error | string | No | The provider's own words when the last check failed. Empty otherwise. |
broken_since | object | No | When the key first failed after last passing, or `null` if it is not currently broken. ⭐ This is what makes "notify on transition to broken, never per check" possible — a key br… |
last_used_at | object | No | — |
created_at | string | Yes | — |
Errors this endpoint can return
401 · 403 · 422 · 429