---
title: Archive Tunnel
url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/cli/beta/tunnels/archive
---

# Archive Tunnel

`$ ant beta:tunnels archive`

**POST** `/v1/tunnels/{tunnel_id}/archive`

The Tunnels API is in research preview. It requires the `anthropic-beta: mcp-tunnels-2026-06-22` header and may change without a deprecation period. It supersedes the Admin API endpoints at `/v1/organizations/tunnels`, which remain available during a migration window.

Archives a tunnel. Archival is irreversible: every non-archived certificate on the tunnel is archived in the same operation, the hostname is retired and never re-allocated, and the tunnel token is invalidated. Retrying against an already-archived tunnel returns the existing record unchanged.

## Parameters

- `--tunnel-id: string` (path parameter)

  ID of the tunnel (`tnl_...`).

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

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

- `--workspace-id: optional string` (header parameter)

  Optional header to select the Workspace for this request. The value is a Workspace ID (for example, `wrkspc_011CZkZaBF1tNoB5wlCeusgy`).

  Only needed for credentials that can act on more than one Workspace. A credential that belongs to a specific Workspace may omit it; if sent, it must match that Workspace.

## Returns

- `beta_tunnel: object`

  An MCP tunnel.

  - `type: "tunnel"`

  - `id: string`

    Unique identifier for the tunnel, prefixed with `tnl_`.

  - `archived_at: string`

    RFC 3339 datetime string indicating when the tunnel was archived. Null if it is not archived.

    format: date-time

  - `created_at: string`

    RFC 3339 datetime string indicating when the tunnel was created.

    format: date-time

  - `display_name: string`

    Human-readable name for the tunnel (1-255 characters). Null if unset.

  - `domain: string`

    Anthropic-assigned hostname for the tunnel. MCP server URLs whose host is a subdomain of this value are routed through the tunnel. Globally unique and never reused, even after the tunnel is archived.

## Example

```bash
ant beta:tunnels archive \
  --api-key my-anthropic-api-key \
  --tunnel-id tunnel_id
```

### Response (200)

```json
{
  "id": "id",
  "archived_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "created_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "display_name": "display_name",
  "domain": "domain",
  "type": "tunnel"
}
```