# Mint a public run token

POST

/v1/tokens/public

```sh
curl --request POST \
  --url https://example.com/v1/tokens/public \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{ "runIds": [ "example" ], "expiresInSeconds": 1 }'
```

A short-lived, read-only token for up to 50 runs (and their descendants), to hand to a browser: it can only call `GET /v1/runs/{runId}/progress` and `GET /v1/runs/{runId}/progress/stream`. Stateless: it cannot be revoked one by one, so keep lifetimes short. Mounted when the deployment issues public run tokens.

## Authorizations

- **[bearerAuth](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/api.md#bearerauth)**

## Parameters

### Header Parameters

**Idempotency-Key**

string

\>= 1 characters

Caller-supplied idempotency key, scoped to the caller: the same key from someone else in the tenant is their own request (from 0.1.5). Retries with the same key return the original response byte-identical (per `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §3.1). A retry sent while the first request still runs is answered `409 idempotency-key-in-flight` with `Retry-After`, on a runtime whose store holds keys (from 0.1.5); retry after it, and you get the first request’s answer. An answer that carries a secret (a new API key or public run token, a session token, a generated signing secret) isn’t kept: a retry gets `409 idempotency-key-replay-withheld`, with the first request’s status and when it succeeded (from 0.1.5).

## Request Bodyrequired

application/json

object

**runIds**

required

The runs the token may read; their descendants are readable too.

Array\<string>

\>= 1 items <= 50 items

**expiresInSeconds**

Lifetime; the deployment default (15 minutes) when absent.

integer

\>= 1 <= 86400

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "runIds": [
    "example"
  ],
  "expiresInSeconds": 1
}
```

## Responses

### 201

Token minted.

application/json

object

**token**

required

The public run token (`kgi_pt_…`).

string

**expiresAt**

required

string format: date-time

**runIds**

required

Array\<string>

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "token": "example",
  "expiresAt": "2026-04-15T12:00:00Z",
  "runIds": [
    "example"
  ]
}
```

### 400

Malformed body, or `expiresInSeconds` above the deployment maximum.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 401

Missing / malformed / expired / revoked bearer token.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 403

The caller may not read one of the runs (`permission-denied`).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 404

A run does not exist under this tenant (`run-not-found`).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 409

Idempotency-Key reused with a different body (`idempotency-key-body-mismatch`), or a retry of a request that succeeded: its answer carried a secret, which isn’t kept (`idempotency-key-replay-withheld`, with its `status` and `at`).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 413

The request body is over the API’s limit (`request-too-large`; `details.maxBytes` says how much).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 500

Server error (unmapped domain code or framework crash).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

## See also

- [Security](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/concepts/security.md)
- [Error code `idempotency-key-body-mismatch`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#idempotency-key-body-mismatch)
- [Error code `idempotency-key-replay-withheld`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#idempotency-key-replay-withheld)
- [Error code `permission-denied`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#permission-denied)
- [Error code `request-too-large`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#request-too-large)
- [Error code `run-not-found`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md#run-not-found)
- [Every error code](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.1.9/reference/errors.md)
