Developers

One key.
Your role, no more.

A staff key is yours. It opens the admin's JSON and the MCP server as you, inside your role, and nothing your role may not do. It is shown one time, and Remove closes it at once.

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Connect Claude Code to my PixelGlass site.

Two ways to do it.

By hand

In the admin

  1. As an admin, open Settings › API. Under Your keys, type a Key name and press New key.
  2. Press Copy key. This is the only time it is shown. Then press Done.
  3. Any staff member can make one in Settings › MCP setup: pick your coding app and press Make key. The text to paste carries the new key.
  4. Send the key with each request as a Bearer token, to an admin address that ends in .json.
  5. Press Remove beside a key, on either screen, to close it.

With your agent

In Claude, ChatGPT or your editor

An agent never makes its own key. Claude and ChatGPT connect from Settings › MCP setup and sign in without one. A coding agent gets its key from Make key, inside the text you paste.

For example

  • A key for the sync

    A developer makes a key named Member sync. The app's server holds it, and the audit log shows each change it makes.

  • A key for Cursor

    An author presses Make key beside Cursor in MCP setup, pastes the text, and writes drafts from the editor.

  • A laptop that was lost

    An editor loses a laptop and presses Remove beside its key. The key stops working at once.

Questions, answered

How do I make an API key on PixelGlass?
As an admin, open Settings › API and press New key under Your keys. Any staff member can make one for a coding app in Settings › MCP setup with Make key.
What can a staff key do?
What you may do. It acts as you on the admin's JSON and the MCP server, and your role is the ceiling.
What is the difference between a staff key and a content key?
A staff key belongs to a person and reads and writes as them. A content key belongs to the site and reads only what a visitor reads. Neither opens the other's addresses.
Can I see my key again later?
No. A key is shown one time. Make a new key and remove the old one.
Who knows that I made a key?
The audit log records every staff key made and removed, with its name and its person.
Which coding agents connect with a key?
Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and Claude Desktop. Each has its own row in Settings › MCP setup, with the text to paste.

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