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Archive Tunnel

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.

Path parameters
tunnel_id: string
Headers
"anthropic-beta": optional array of AnthropicBeta

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

One of the following:
string
"message-batches-2024-09-24" or "prompt-caching-2024-07-31" or "computer-use-2024-10-22" or 31 more
One of the following:
"message-batches-2024-09-24"
"prompt-caching-2024-07-31"
"computer-use-2024-10-22"
"computer-use-2025-01-24"
"pdfs-2024-09-25"
"token-counting-2024-11-01"
"token-efficient-tools-2025-02-19"
"output-128k-2025-02-19"
"files-api-2025-04-14"
"mcp-client-2025-04-04"
"mcp-client-2025-11-20"
"dev-full-thinking-2025-05-14"
"interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14"
"code-execution-2025-05-22"
"extended-cache-ttl-2025-04-11"
"context-1m-2025-08-07"
"context-management-2025-06-27"
"model-context-window-exceeded-2025-08-26"
"skills-2025-10-02"
"fast-mode-2026-02-01"
"output-300k-2026-03-24"
"user-profiles-2026-03-24"
"user-profiles-2026-08-18"
"advisor-tool-2026-03-01"
"managed-agents-2026-04-01"
"cache-diagnosis-2026-04-07"
"dreaming-2026-04-21"
"thinking-token-count-2026-05-13"
"server-side-fallback-2026-06-01"
"server-side-fallback-2026-07-01"
"fallback-credit-2026-06-01"
"fallback-credit-2026-07-01"
"agent-memory-2026-07-22"
"mid-conversation-tool-changes-2026-07-01"
Returns
BetaTunnel object{ id, archived_at, created_at, 3 more }

An MCP tunnel.

id: string

Unique identifier for the tunnel, prefixed with tnl_.

archived_at: string or null

A timestamp in RFC 3339 format

formatdate-time
created_at: string

A timestamp in RFC 3339 format

formatdate-time
display_name: string or null

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.

type: "tunnel"

Archive Tunnel

curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/tunnels/$TUNNEL_ID/archive \
    -X POST \
    -H 'anthropic-version: 2023-06-01' \
    -H 'anthropic-beta: mcp-tunnels-2026-06-22' \
    -H "X-Api-Key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
{
  "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"
}
Returns Examples
{
  "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"
}