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

# Create Service Account

`$ ant beta:organization:service-accounts create`

**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](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/manage-claude/wif-admin-api?sdk_languages=cli).

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.

## Parameters

- `--name: string`

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

  minLength: 1, maxLength: 255

- `--description: optional string`

  Optional free-text description.

  maxLength: 2000

- `--organization-role: optional "admin" or "developer"`

  Org-level role. Defaults to `developer`.

- `--beta: optional array of AnthropicBeta` (header parameter)

  Optional header to specify the beta version(s) you want to use.

## Returns

- `beta_service_account: 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"`

  - `id: string`

    Tagged ID of the service account.

  - `archived_at: string`

    If set, this service account is archived.

    format: date-time

  - `archived_by_actor_id: string`

    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`

    Tagged ID (`user_`/`svac_`) of the actor that created this service account.

  - `description: string`

    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`

    Tagged ID (`user_`/`svac_`) of the actor that last updated this service account.

## Example

```bash
ant beta:organization:service-accounts create \
  --api-key my-anthropic-api-key \
  --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"
}
```