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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Kaiva Bridge Management Keys API
version: 1.0.0
summary: Create, read and publish managed MCP servers from an OpenAPI spec, a GraphQL API, a database, documents or a remote MCP server.
description: 'The REST API behind the Kaiva Bridge console and the @kaiva/bridge CLI. It creates managed MCP servers from an OpenAPI or Swagger spec, a GraphQL endpoint, a PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB or SQL Server database, uploaded documents or a remote MCP server, chooses which tools are exposed, publishes the server and creates the keys AI clients use.
Every request carries a management key: `Authorization: Bearer kv_mgmt_...`. An owner or admin creates one in the console under Keys & access (type Management), or `npx @kaiva/bridge login` approves a machine and saves one. A management key acts on its own workspace only, and it cannot create another management key. Gateway keys (`kv_live_...`) are for calling an MCP server and are refused here.
A published server is an MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP) at `https://api.kaiv.ai/api/bridge/mcp/`. AI clients call it with MCP, not with this API. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and Claude Code can sign in to it with OAuth 2.1 instead of a key.
Limits: 120 requests a minute per address; 60 document uploads a minute and 12 credential tests a minute per workspace.
The CLI''s source is public: https://github.com/ai-kaiva/bridge'
contact:
name: Kaiva support
email: support@kaiv.ai
url: https://kaiv.ai/bridge/docs
termsOfService: https://kaiv.ai/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.kaiv.ai/api/bridge/v1
description: Production
security:
- managementKey: []
tags:
- name: Keys
description: Gateway keys for AI clients that use a key instead of signing in.
paths:
/keys:
get:
tags:
- Keys
operationId: listKeys
summary: List the workspace's keys
responses:
'200':
description: Keys, without their secret (only a prefix is kept for display).
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
keys:
type: array
items:
type: object
additionalProperties: true
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
post:
tags:
- Keys
operationId: createGatewayKey
summary: Create a gateway key for an AI client that uses a key
description: A gateway key calls the MCP servers it names. The key is returned once; Bridge keeps only its hash. This API never creates a management key.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- label
- serverIds
properties:
label:
type: string
serverIds:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: The servers this key may call.
policyId:
type: string
description: A policy that limits which tools the key may call.
responses:
'201':
description: The new key, shown once.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
key:
type: object
properties:
key:
type: string
description: kv_live_..., shown only in this answer.
additionalProperties: true
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
/keys/{id}:
parameters:
- name: id
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
delete:
tags:
- Keys
operationId: revokeKey
summary: Revoke a key
description: Requests with it are refused at once.
responses:
'200':
description: Revoked.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
revoked: {}
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
responses:
Unauthorized:
description: No key, an unknown key, or a gateway key (kv_live_) where a management key is needed.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
BadRequest:
description: The request is missing something or has a value Bridge cannot use; the answer says which.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
NotFound:
description: No such item in this workspace.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
schemas:
Error:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: string
description: A short code, or a sentence for errors in your request.
message:
type: string
securitySchemes:
managementKey:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: kv_mgmt_
description: A management key (kv_mgmt_...). Create one in the console under Keys & access, or run `npx @kaiva/bridge login`.
externalDocs:
description: Kaiva Bridge docs
url: https://kaiv.ai/bridge/docs