The Compliance API is available only on the Claude Enterprise plan and must be enabled before use. See Get access to the Compliance API.
Required scope: read:compliance_activities on the Compliance Access Key or Admin API key.
Both Compliance Access Keys (sk-ant-api01-...) carrying this scope and Admin API keys (sk-ant-admin01-...) can call the Activity Feed. See Get access to the Compliance API for the conditions under which each key type carries the scope.
The Activity Feed records every authentication, chat, file, project, administrative, and platform action that occurs in your organization, in reverse chronological order. Activities are queryable within 1 minute of occurring and are retained for 6 years.
curl --fail-with-body -sS \
"https://api.anthropic.com/v1/compliance/activities?limit=1" \
--header "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_COMPLIANCE_ACCESS_KEY"{
"data": [
{
"id": "activity_01XyDMpzjS89pFZXqSFUBDr6",
"created_at": "2026-04-10T08:09:10Z",
"organization_id": "org_01Wv6QeBcDfGhJkLmNpQrSt8",
"organization_uuid": "abcdef01-2345-6789-abcd-ef0123456789",
"actor": {
"type": "user_actor",
"email_address": "[email protected]",
"user_id": "user_01TuVwXyZaBcDeFgH2JkLmN4",
"ip_address": "192.0.2.34",
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0..."
},
"type": "claude_chat_created",
"claude_chat_id": "claude_chat_01XyDMpzjS89pFZXqSFUBDr6",
"claude_project_id": "claude_proj_01KGp4eZNug9ri4kE35RSppq"
}
],
"has_more": true,
"first_id": "activity_01XyDMpzjS89pFZXqSFUBDr6",
"last_id": "activity_01XyDMpzjS89pFZXqSFUBDr6"
}Filter by organization, actor, activity type, or a created_at time window using the dotted sub-parameters created_at.gte, .gt, .lte, and .lt. See the API reference for each parameter's type and accepted values.
Repeatable parameters use array-bracket query syntax: pass activity_types[]=..., actor_ids[]=..., or organization_ids[]=... once for each value.
curl --fail-with-body -sS -G \
"https://api.anthropic.com/v1/compliance/activities" \
--data-urlencode "activity_types[]=claude_file_uploaded" \
--data-urlencode "activity_types[]=claude_chat_created" \
--data-urlencode "created_at.gte=2026-04-01T00:00:00Z" \
--header "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_COMPLIANCE_ACCESS_KEY"The Activity Feed produces hundreds of distinct activity types. See Query compliance activities in the API reference for the full list of values that activity_types[] accepts.
Activities are returned newest first, with ties in created_at broken by activity ID, and capped at limit results in each response (default 100, max 5,000). See the API reference for the full response schema.
The Compliance API uses two pagination schemes depending on the endpoint family:
| Endpoint family | Sort order | Scheme | Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Activities | Newest first | Cursor | after_id, before_id (returned as first_id, last_id) |
| Chats and chat messages | Oldest first | Cursor | after_id, before_id (returned as first_id, last_id) |
| Projects, project attachments, users, roles, role permissions, groups, group members | Endpoint-specific | Page token | page (returned as next_page) |
Organizations and files do not paginate: List organizations returns all results in one response, and files are retrieved individually by ID.
Pagination cursors and page tokens are opaque strings: pass them back unchanged. Their internal format is not stable, and parsing them will break without notice. Only one of after_id or before_id may be set in each request, and both schemes return has_more so you know when to stop.
To page through activities:
last_id as after_id to advance to the next page in result order. With activities sorted newest first, the next page contains older entries.first_id as before_id to return to the previous page.has_more is false.The cursor parameter sets the page direction; the endpoint's sort order sets the time direction. The same after_id parameter reaches older activities here. Chats sort oldest first; see Retrieve and delete chats, files, and projects for the cursor semantics there.
Cursors are safe to reuse on retry. A cursor or page token from a successfully returned page remains valid; a request that fails (5xx, timeout, network error) does not advance your position. Retry the same request with the same cursor. Only move to the next cursor after you have stored the page it points past.
# Fetch the first page (newest activities first) and capture its trailing cursor.
last_id=$(curl --fail-with-body -sS \
"https://api.anthropic.com/v1/compliance/activities?limit=2" \
--header "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_COMPLIANCE_ACCESS_KEY" | jq -er '.last_id')
# Pass the cursor back unchanged to fetch the next (older) page.
curl --fail-with-body -sS -G \
"https://api.anthropic.com/v1/compliance/activities" \
--header "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_COMPLIANCE_ACCESS_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "limit=2" \
--data-urlencode "after_id=${last_id}"A production backfill loop pages through older activities by driving iteration off has_more and last_id:
after_id to start from the beginning).after_id=<last_id> until has_more is false.last_id only after you've stored every page it covers.cursor = stored_cursor
loop:
if cursor is not null:
page = GET /v1/compliance/activities?after_id={cursor}&limit=100
else:
page = GET /v1/compliance/activities?limit=100
store(page.data)
if page.last_id is not null:
cursor = page.last_id
if not page.has_more: break
persist(cursor)Every entry in data is an Activity with this top-level shape:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id | string | Unique identifier for the activity. |
created_at | RFC 3339 string | When the activity occurred. |
organization_id | string or null | Organization where the activity occurred, or null for events not tied to an organization (sign-in, sign-out, Compliance API calls). |
organization_uuid | string or null | Same scoping as organization_id, expressed as a UUID. |
actor | Actor union | Who or what performed the activity. See the following actor table. |
type | string | The activity type, for example claude_chat_created. |
| additional fields | varies | Type-specific fields, for example claude_chat_id on chat events or filename on file events. See Query compliance activities in the API reference for the per-type field list. |
The actor field is a discriminated union. The type discriminator tells you which other fields are present:
actor.type | When it appears | Key fields |
|---|---|---|
user_actor | A signed-in claude.ai or Claude Console user took the action. | email_address, user_id, ip_address, user_agent |
api_actor | A request called the Claude API or the Compliance API with a customer-issued API key. Compliance API calls produce this actor type for both Compliance Access Keys and Admin API keys. | api_key_id, ip_address, user_agent |
admin_api_key_actor | An organization admin used an Admin API key to manage users, invites, workspaces, or API keys. | admin_api_key_id |
unauthenticated_user_actor | An action occurred before sign-in completed, for example sso_login_initiated. | unauthenticated_email_address, ip_address, user_agent |
anthropic_actor | Anthropic acted on the organization, for example through internal tooling. | email_address (always null; present for shape consistency with user_actor, since Anthropic operators are not represented by individual email) |
scim_directory_sync_actor | An identity provider (such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, or JumpCloud) pushed a change through SCIM directory sync. | workos_event_id, directory_id, idp_connection_type (nullable; for example OktaSCIMV2, AzureSCIMV2) |
Build forward-compatible parsers. Pass through unrecognized type and
actor.type values, and ignore fields your parser does not expect, so your
integration keeps working when new activity types ship.
The full request and response schema for GET /v1/compliance/activities, including every supported activity_types[] value.
Query and delete the underlying content for activities you find in the feed (Compliance Access Key required).
Choose a polling or batch consumption pattern and plan SIEM correlation.
The full error catalog.
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