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Thinking Machines Authentication

Authentication

The Tinker API and SDK authenticate with a single API key issued from the Tinker Console. The key is supplied to the SDK/CLI via the TINKER_API_KEY environment variable and is sent as a bearer credential to the service.

Thinking Machines declares 1 security scheme(s) across its OpenAPI definitions.

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Methods: Schemes: 1 OAuth flows: API key in:

Security Schemes

TINKER_API_KEY apiKey

· in: env ()

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Authentication Profile

generated: 2026-07-21
method: searched
source: https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/quickstart/
name: Thinking Machines (Tinker) authentication
description: >-
  The Tinker API and SDK authenticate with a single API key issued from the
  Tinker Console. The key is supplied to the SDK/CLI via the TINKER_API_KEY
  environment variable and is sent as a bearer credential to the service.
schemes:
- id: api_key
  type: apiKey
  in: env
  name: TINKER_API_KEY
  transport: bearer
  description: >-
    Personal/organization API key obtained from the Tinker Console
    (https://tinker.thinkingmachines.ai/). Set as `export TINKER_API_KEY=...`;
    the Python SDK (import tinker) and the tinker CLI read it automatically.
  provisioning: https://tinker.thinkingmachines.ai/
oauth2: false
openid_connect: false
mutual_tls: false
notes: >-
  Access control is enforced beyond authentication via a project-scoped
  permission model (organizations, teams, projects, sessions) documented at
  https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/data-model/. The SDK surfaces
  AuthenticationError and PermissionDeniedError for credential/authorization
  failures.
docs: https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/quickstart/

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