Getting Started

Personal Access Tokens

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Getting Started

Taskade provides two authentication methods to protect your API interactions.

Overview

Personal Access Tokens are unique strings that authorize access to the Taskade API. Use them when a full OAuth 2.0 flow is not necessary.

Get and Use a Personal Access Token

  1. Generate a Token:
    • Go to https://www.taskade.com/settings/api.
    • Scroll to Personal access tokens.
    • Click Create token, give the token a name, and click Create.
    • Copy the token. Taskade shows it only once.
  2. Use the Token in API Requests:

    • Include the token in the Authorization header of each API request:

      Makefile
      Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN
  3. Protect the Token: Treat personal access tokens like passwords. Anyone with the token can access the API on your behalf.
  4. If you think that a token is compromised, revoke it and create a new token immediately.

Limits

  • A token starts with the prefix tskdp_. Taskade shows the value once, at creation.
  • Your account email must be verified before you can create a token.
  • You can hold 5 tokens per account. Taskade refuses a sixth with the message Cannot create more than 5 personal access tokens.
  • A personal access token carries no scopes. It grants everything the owning account can reach.

The same token authenticates REST API v1, Action API v2, the local @taskade/mcp-server, and the hosted MCP endpoint. See Authentication.

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