---
title: "List your SSH keys"
method: GET
path: "/ssh-keys"
tags: ["SSH"]
---

# List your SSH keys

`GET /ssh-keys`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.mandala.computer/api/v1`
- URL: `https://app.mandala.computer/api/v1/ssh-keys`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

The SSH public keys registered to **you** — not to the account. A key identifies one person, so this is the same list whichever account your key or session is acting on. A key added from the dashboard reaches the computers of every account where you are an owner or member. A key added through an API key or a connected app reaches only the account that credential acts on, and is removed when the credential is revoked. Each key’s `reach` says which of those it is, from the account this request acts on, without naming any other. Viewers cannot connect.

HOW TO CONNECT. Switch SSH on for a computer (`PUT /computers/{id}/ssh`), then `ssh -J mandala@ssh.mandala.computer:2222 user@<computer id or name>`. The jump host checks the key you offer against this list and your role on the computer’s account; the computer’s own sshd then checks it again. A name that matches computers on more than one of your accounts is refused — use the id.

Connecting to a suspended computer resumes it — a start like any other, charged and refusable by your plan. A stopped computer refuses the connection; start it first.

Requires the `viewer` role or higher.

## Response `200`

Your keys, oldest first.

- SSHKey[]
  - `id` string, required: `sshk-` and sixteen hex characters.
  - `name` string, required: Your label for it. Defaults to the comment that followed the key when you added it.
  - `public_key` string, required: The key as `<type> <base64>`, re-encoded from what you sent: no options and no comment. This is the line the platform writes into the computer.
  - `fingerprint` string, required: `SHA256:` and 43 characters, exactly as `ssh-keygen -l -f <file>` prints it.
  - `key_type` string, required: One of `ssh-ed25519`, `ecdsa-sha2-nistp256`, `ecdsa-sha2-nistp384`, `ecdsa-sha2-nistp521`, `sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com`, `sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com` or `ssh-rsa`.
  - `created_at` string, required: RFC 3339 timestamp.
  - `last_used_at` string, nullable, required: When this key last opened a connection to a computer. `null` until it has.
  - `reach` 'everywhere' | 'this_account' | 'another_account', required: Where this key can connect, from the account this request acts on. `everywhere`: it was added from the dashboard and works on every account where you are an owner or member. `this_account`: it was added through an API key or connected app on this account and works here only. `another_account`: it was added through an API key or connected app on a different account and does not work here; which account is not said. A key is registered once, so adding it again is a `409`: to use one key on every account, remove it and add it from the dashboard; otherwise use a separate key here.

## Other responses

- `401`: Platform authentication required or refused: reason is missing, invalid, or revoked, with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer (invalid_token for invalid/revoked).
- `403`: The credential is recognized but its holder lacks the required role or membership, or the holder/account is suspended, or the holder has not verified their email address. An ordinary denial for too low a role may carry no `reason`. The email one carries none either, and its message begins `Verify your email before`: it answers a create, a clone of a computer or a snapshot, a new API key and a new SSH key, and is cleared by verifying the address in the dashboard. `reason: "revoked"` marks authority that is gone: a suspended account or a lost membership (refused as the request arrives, or if it happens while the request is in flight), or a role that was lowered while the request was in flight. The message identifies the refusal; replacing a valid key alone does not restore authority, and sending the same call again does not help.
- `405`: This public path exists but does not accept that method. Allow lists only its public methods, with HEAD for GET and metadata OPTIONS.
- `429`: You are asking faster than your plan allows. `Retry-After` says how many seconds to wait, and every metered response — anything past authentication and the re-check that your credential’s authority still holds — carries `RateLimit-Remaining`, so you do not have to be refused to find out. A `401`, a `403` from that re-check, an `OPTIONS` answer and an unexpected `500` carry none. The budget is spent in proportion to what a call costs rather than per request. What a call costs, in budget units, by kind (each operation’s exact figure is its `x-rate-cost` in the OpenAPI document): 1 to read one thing; 5 for a listing that spans the fleet, and 5 for a call into a running guest such as a screenshot or an exec; 10 for a power change and 10 to move file bytes; 25 for `GET /usage`, `GET /credits`, creating a public URL, and creating, rotating or testing a webhook; 50 to capture a snapshot; 100 to create, clone or restore a computer, and 100 to start an agent run, whose actions are then charged as they happen. The account-wide budget, as what an idle caller may spend at once and what refills each minute: No plan 1200 at once and 1200 a minute; Solo 4800 at once and 4800 a minute; Studio 12000 at once and 12000 a minute; Swarm 21600 at once and 21600 a minute. A single API key gets half of either. A `401` for a missing or unusable credential costs nothing: it is refused before anything is metered. A few refusals at the door cost one unit: a `403` because the role is too low or the route refuses an API key confined to a workspace, a `404` for a path that matches nothing, a `405`, and an `Idempotency-Key` answered from its stored result or still in progress. Everything else is charged in full when it is admitted, before it is carried out, so a refusal after that has spent the whole cost: a `400`, `402` or `409` from the route, a `403` its handler sends (on most routes, a suspended account included), and a model provider’s `401` on an agent run. The budget belongs to the account and is shared across everything on it, and any single API key may spend at most half of it. `RateLimit-Limit` is whichever of those two is binding on the request that carried it — usually the per-key half, and the account-wide figure when other keys have already spent more of it than this one has. All three `RateLimit-*` headers describe the same one, so `limit` minus `remaining` is what has been spent against it. A few `429`s are not about this budget, say so in their message, and can carry no `Retry-After`: a model provider’s rate limit relayed on an agent run. The cap on forks of one snapshot waiting for their secrets sends its own bounded expiry-based `Retry-After` with `reason: "contention"` (see `POST /snapshots/{id}/clone`).
- `500`: The application could not finish this: an unexpected exception, a build that broke, or a storage fault. Application refusals carry the request correlation ID; unexpected internal details are not returned.

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