# Create credential

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/provider/post-connection-by-provider-credential

> The direct intake path: a customer-held token/setup-token (Verify) or an externally obtained OAuth bundle from the CLI's local PKCE (Adopt).

`POST /v1/connection/{provider}/credential`

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|               |                                                            |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/connection/{provider}/credential` |
| **Method**    | `POST`                                                     |
| **Operation** | `post_connection_by_provider_credential`                   |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`                     |

The direct intake path: a customer-held token/setup-token
(Verify) or an externally obtained OAuth bundle from the CLI's local PKCE
(Adopt). ALWAYS verify-before-store: a bad credential is refused and NOTHING
is persisted (connectByCredential's fail-closed order).

## Request

9 fields, body `application/json` (required).

| Field           | In   | Type                   | Required | Description                                                            |
| --------------- | ---- | ---------------------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `provider`      | path | string                 | yes      | Provider is the user-scoped provider's registry id, from the path.     |
| `accountId`     | body | string                 | —        | AccountID scopes the credential where the provider's Verify needs one. |
| `label`         | body | string                 | —        | Label names this connection; empty means "default".                    |
| `oauth`         | body | provider.oauthBundleIn | —        |                                                                        |
| `oauth.access`  | body | string                 | —        | Access is the access token.                                            |
| `oauth.account` | body | string                 | —        | Account is the account label the flow reported; sanitized on ingest.   |
| `oauth.refresh` | body | string                 | —        | Refresh is the refresh token.                                          |
| `provider`      | body | string                 | —        | Provider is the user-scoped provider's registry id, from the path.     |
| `token`         | body | string                 | —        | Token is the customer-held credential for the Verify path.             |

## Response

| Status    | Body                   | Meaning |
| --------- | ---------------------- | ------- |
| `200`     | provider.credentialOut | ok      |
| `default` | problem-details        | refused |

`200` body — 10 fields.

| Field                   | In   | Type                    | Always | Description                                                                                                                                               |
| ----------------------- | ---- | ----------------------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `connected`             | body | boolean                 | —      | Connected is always true — a failed verification is a 400 and stores nothing.                                                                             |
| `connector`             | body | provider.connectionView | —      |                                                                                                                                                           |
| `connector.account`     | body | string                  | —      | Account is the human label of the connected third-party account (the Slack team name, the GitHub org login).                                              |
| `connector.connectedAt` | body | string                  | —      | ConnectedAt is when the connection was last (re)established, RFC 3339 UTC.                                                                                |
| `connector.expiresAt`   | body | string                  | —      | ExpiresAt is when the access token expires, RFC 3339 UTC; empty for a credential that does not expire.                                                    |
| `connector.externalId`  | body | string                  | —      | ExternalID is the provider's own id for the account (Slack team.id, GitHub installation\_id) — the value inbound webhooks are mapped back to this org by. |
| `connector.id`          | body | string                  | —      | ID is provider + ":" + label, the address every connection route takes.                                                                                   |
| `connector.label`       | body | string                  | —      | Label is the caller's own name for this connection ("default", "work").                                                                                   |
| `connector.provider`    | body | string                  | —      | Provider is the connected provider's registry id.                                                                                                         |
| `connector.scopes`      | body | string\[]               | —      | Scopes are the permissions the provider granted.                                                                                                          |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo connection credential <provider>
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, ProviderApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new ProviderApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.postConnectionByProviderCredential({ provider: 'provider', accountId: "<accountId>", label: "<label>" });
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import ProviderApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = ProviderApi(client).post_connection_by_provider_credential(provider='provider', account_id="<accountId>", label="<label>")
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.ProviderAPI.PostConnectionByProviderCredential(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, provider_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = provider_api::post_connection_by_provider_credential(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.ProviderApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new ProviderApi(client).postConnectionByProviderCredential();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/connection/<provider>/credential \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "accountId": "<accountId>",
       "label": "<label>"
     }'
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **provider** through the `provider` tool, which names its 38 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_connections"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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