# title: Create Service Account url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta/organization/service_accounts/create

# Create Service Account

POST /v1/organizations/service_accounts

Requires an OAuth access token with the org:admin scope, from ant auth login --scope org:admin or a workload identity federation rule; Admin API keys are not accepted. See Manage WIF with the Admin API.

Create a service account.

A service account is a named workload identity that federation rules target. organization_role is developer (default) or admin; a rule may only be created or retargeted to grant org:admin scope when the target's organization_role is admin. Creating an admin-role service account requires an interactive credential (a user OAuth token or a Console session) — a workload may only create developer-role service accounts.

# Headers

"anthropic-beta": optional array of AnthropicBeta

Optional header to specify the beta version(s) you want to use.
- string
- "message-batches-2024-09-24" or "prompt-caching-2024-07-31" or "computer-use-2024-10-22" or 43 more
  - "message-batches-2024-09-24"
  - "prompt-caching-2024-07-31"
  - "computer-use-2024-10-22"
  - "computer-use-2025-01-24"
  - "pdfs-2024-09-25"
  - "token-counting-2024-11-01"
  - "token-efficient-tools-2025-02-19"
  - "output-128k-2025-02-19"
  - "files-api-2025-04-14"
  - "mcp-client-2025-04-04"
  - "mcp-client-2025-11-20"
  - "dev-full-thinking-2025-05-14"
  - "interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14"
  - "code-execution-2025-05-22"
  - "extended-cache-ttl-2025-04-11"
  - "context-1m-2025-08-07"
  - "context-management-2025-06-27"
  - "model-context-window-exceeded-2025-08-26"
  - "skills-2025-10-02"
  - "fast-mode-2026-02-01"
  - "output-300k-2026-03-24"
  - "user-profiles-2026-03-24"
  - "user-profiles-2026-08-18"
  - "user-profiles-2026-09-04"
  - "advisor-tool-2026-03-01"
  - "managed-agents-2026-04-01"
  - "cache-diagnosis-2026-04-07"
  - "dreaming-2026-04-21"
  - "thinking-token-count-2026-05-13"
  - "server-side-fallback-2026-06-01"
  - "server-side-fallback-2026-07-01"
  - "fallback-credit-2026-06-01"
  - "fallback-credit-2026-07-01"
  - "agent-memory-2026-07-22"
  - "mid-conversation-tool-changes-2026-07-01"
  - "compact-2026-01-12"
  - "computer-use-2025-11-24"
  - "mcp-tunnels-2026-06-22"
  - "structured-outputs-2025-11-13"
  - "task-budgets-2026-03-13"
  - "thinking-display-updates-2026-08-18"
  - "ce-user-management-2026-07-13"
  - "mid-conversation-output-config-2026-07-01"
  - "thinking-binding-controls-2026-08-01"
  - "mid-conversation-system-clear-at-2026-08-21"
  - "compact-2026-09-04"

# Body parameters

name: string

Slug identifier (lowercase, digits, hyphens). Unique within the organization; a duplicate name returns 409.

maxLength: 255, minLength: 1
description: optional string or null

Optional free-text description.

maxLength: 2000
organization_role: optional "admin" or "developer"

Org-level role. Defaults to developer.
- "admin"
- "developer"

# Returns

BetaServiceAccount object

Named non-human identity within the caller's organization.

A service account is a pure identity: name + org. Authorization lives on whatever references it (federation rules).
- type: "service_account"
  
  default: service_account
- id: string
  
  Tagged ID of the service account.
- archived_at: string or null
  
  If set, this service account is archived.
  
  format: date-time
- archived_by_actor_id: string or null
  
  Tagged ID (user_/svac_) of the actor that archived this service account.
- created_at: string
  
  When this service account was created.
  
  format: date-time
- created_by_actor_id: string or null
  
  Tagged ID (user_/svac_) of the actor that created this service account.
- description: string or null
  
  Optional free-text description.
- name: string
  
  Admin-chosen slug identifier.
- organization_role: "admin" or "developer"
  
  Org-level role. A federation rule may only be created or retargeted to grant org:admin scope when this is admin. A rule granting org:admin whose target is later demoted to developer is rejected at token exchange. Rules granting org:admin are managed in the Console.
  - "admin"
  - "developer"
- updated_at: string
  
  When this service account was last updated.
  
  format: date-time
- updated_by_actor_id: string or null
  
  Tagged ID (user_/svac_) of the actor that last updated this service account.

# Example

bash

curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/organizations/service_accounts \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'anthropic-version: 2023-06-01' \
    -H "X-Api-Key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" \
    -d '{
          "name": "ci-deploy-bot"
        }'

# Response (200)

json

{
  "id": "svac_01SDCCSbTxrXDpWc1phhtcfK",
  "archived_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "archived_by_actor_id": "archived_by_actor_id",
  "created_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z",
  "created_by_actor_id": "created_by_actor_id",
  "description": "description",
  "name": "ci-deploy-bot",
  "organization_role": "admin",
  "type": "service_account",
  "updated_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z",
  "updated_by_actor_id": "updated_by_actor_id"
}

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