# Extend API key

Canonical URL: https://sosoapi.ai/docs/mcp/extend-api-key

`sosoapi_extend_api_key`

Set a later expiry (expires_at) on an API key identified by id: at most 365 days from now, or 30 for a key an agent created. An agent can extend only keys its own grant created. Needs the Manage API keys grant.

## Profiles and transports

Profiles: full

Transports: stdio, http

Choose core or full to control which tools your client sees; this does not change its permissions. Local file upload requires stdio and is unavailable over HTTP. Set SOSOAPI_OUTPUT_SCHEMAS=1 to include output schemas in discovery. Tools return structured results with or without that setting.

## Permissions and side effects

Annotations help clients describe a tool. Each call still checks the user’s authentication, role, resource access and capability grants.

```json
{
  "readOnlyHint": false,
  "destructiveHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}
```

`/identity-api/api-keys/extend` — agent:manage_api_keys; synchronous_http_response

## Input fields

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uuid"
    },
    "expires_at": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d(?::[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d)))$",
      "description": "Requested new absolute expiry. The longest lifetime is 365 days from now, or 30 days for a key created by a delegated agent. A signed-in person extending their own key is granted that longest lifetime when they ask for a later time (up to 3,650 days from now); in every other case a later time is refused with API_KEY_LIFETIME_EXCEEDS_CAP. The response carries the expiry actually applied."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id",
    "expires_at"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## Structured output

This schema describes structuredContent in a successful tool result. The MCP response also includes content and may set isError when a call fails. For publishing, read the post’s final result rather than treating an accepted request or text response as confirmation. The linked API operation explains permissions and retry rules.

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "apiKey": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uuid"
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "last_4": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "scopes": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "created_at": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "date-time",
          "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d(?::[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d)))$"
        },
        "expires_at": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "date-time",
              "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d(?::[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d)))$"
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ]
        },
        "last_used_at": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "date-time",
              "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d(?::[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d)))$"
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ]
        },
        "revoked_at": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "date-time",
              "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d(?::[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d)))$"
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ]
        },
        "status": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "active",
            "expired",
            "revoked"
          ]
        },
        "replaces": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "id": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "format": "uuid"
                },
                "name": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "last_4": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "status": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "enum": [
                    "active",
                    "expired",
                    "revoked"
                  ]
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "id",
                "name",
                "last_4",
                "status"
              ],
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ]
        },
        "replaced_by": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "string",
                "format": "uuid"
              },
              "name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "last_4": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "status": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "active",
                  "expired",
                  "revoked"
                ]
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "id",
              "name",
              "last_4",
              "status"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": false
          }
        },
        "capabilities": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "agent:operate",
              "agent:publish",
              "agent:engage"
            ]
          }
        },
        "workspace_ids": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string",
                "format": "uuid"
              }
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ]
        },
        "created_by_delegated_grant_id": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "uuid"
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "id",
        "name",
        "last_4",
        "scopes",
        "created_at",
        "expires_at",
        "last_used_at",
        "revoked_at",
        "status",
        "replaces",
        "replaced_by"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "idempotent": {
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "apiKey",
    "idempotent"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## Example tool call

These examples use fictional values checked against the schemas. Replace the IDs with ones you are authorized to use, the media with ready assets and the dates with your confirmed publishing time. Check the account’s eligibility before submitting a write. This page sends no API requests.

```json
{
  "name": "sosoapi_extend_api_key",
  "arguments": {
    "id": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
    "expires_at": "2099-01-15T09:00:00Z"
  }
}
```

structuredContent

```json
{
  "apiKey": {
    "id": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
    "name": "example",
    "last_4": "example",
    "scopes": [],
    "created_at": "2099-01-15T09:00:00Z",
    "expires_at": null,
    "last_used_at": null,
    "revoked_at": null,
    "status": "active",
    "replaces": null,
    "replaced_by": []
  },
  "idempotent": false
}
```

## Underlying API operations

- [/identity-api/api-keys/extend](https://sosoapi.ai/docs/api/identity-api-api-keys-extend)