> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.help.creatora.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Authentication

> Send the Administrator session JWT and select Administrator access mode for supported API requests.

Sign in as an Administrator and open **Admin Panel → Platform → API → Developer** to copy your JWT. Keep it private. It is an account session credential, not a separately managed integration key.

Send the JWT and access mode with every Administrator request:

```http theme={null}
Authorization: Bearer <JWT>
X-CREATORA-ACCESS-MODE: administrator
Content-Type: application/json
```

Authentication identifies the account. The access-mode header selects Administrator context. If you omit it, the request uses Student mode even when the JWT belongs to an Administrator. This can change the data returned by a mixed-audience query or cause an authorization error.

Signing out of the browser does not revoke a copied JWT. Store it outside source code and logs, and do not paste a real token into published examples or a repository. See [API conventions](/en/api/api-conventions) for errors and request formats, or [Quickstart](/en/api/quickstart) for your first request.