> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.px0.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get an Access Key

> Learn how to retrieve your organization and team IDs and generate a programmatic API key for secure service-to-service authentication.

With your session token (which starts with `sess_`), you can make authenticated requests to configure your prompt infrastructure. Programmatic API keys act as machine tokens to securely authenticate server-to-server calls when rendering templates in production.

This guide walks you through querying your organization and team details and generating a programmatic API key.

<Note>
  You can also retrieve your organization and team IDs or generate programmatic API keys directly through the user-friendly px0 Web Console at [http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000). If you prefer querying details and creating keys programmatically using our API, you can follow the detailed step-by-step instructions below.
</Note>

## Prerequisites

Before proceeding, ensure you have:

* Installed and started the local px0 services. See the [Run px0 Locally](/get-started/run-locally) guide for setup instructions.
* Logged in to obtain a session token. Save your session token to an environment variable:

```bash theme={null}
export PX0_ACCESS_TOKEN="your_session_token_here"
```

## 1. Retrieve Organization and Team IDs

Your programmatic API key needs to be bound to a specific organization and team. You can retrieve these IDs by querying your profile.

### Get Organization ID

Query your registered organizations:

```bash theme={null}
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer ${PX0_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
  http://localhost:8000/v1/me/orgs
```

Save the organization ID returned in the JSON response to an environment variable:

```bash theme={null}
export PX0_ORG_ID="your_organization_id_here"
```

### Get Team ID

Query your registered teams:

```bash theme={null}
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer ${PX0_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
  http://localhost:8000/v1/me/teams
```

Save the team ID returned in the JSON response to an environment variable:

```bash theme={null}
export PX0_TEAM_ID="your_team_id_here"
```

## 2. Generate a Programmatic API Key

Create a programmatic key with `all` or `read_render` operations. This key acts as an application token for rendering templates programmatically in your microservices.

Execute the following request to generate the key:

```bash theme={null}
curl -i -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/api-keys" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${PX0_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data @- <<EOF
{
  "name": "my-application-key",
  "org_id": "${PX0_ORG_ID}",
  "team_ids": ["${PX0_TEAM_ID}"],
  "operation": "all"
}
EOF
```

Copy the key returned in the JSON response and save it to an environment variable:

```bash theme={null}
export PX0_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
```

## Next Steps

Now that you have generated a programmatic API key, you are ready to configure, version, and render your prompt templates.

* [Create Your First Prompt](/get-started/create-prompt)
* [Setup Telemetry](/get-started/setup-telemetry)