# User Management API
DB-backed user management for multi-tenant IronClaw deployments. Covers admin user CRUD, per-user secrets provisioning, self-service profile, API token management, and usage reporting.
## Authentication
All endpoints require `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. Tokens are either:
- **Env-var tokens** — configured via `GATEWAY_AUTH_TOKEN` (single-user) at startup
- **DB-backed tokens** — created via `POST /api/tokens` or `POST /api/admin/users`
DB tokens are SHA-256 hashed at rest; plaintext is returned exactly once at creation time.
Auth is cached in a bounded LRU (1024 entries, 60s TTL). Suspending a user or revoking a token may take up to 60s to take effect.
## Roles
| `admin` | Full access to all endpoints |
| `member` | Self-service profile + own token management only |
Endpoints marked **Admin** return `403 Forbidden` for `member` role.
---
## Admin: Users
### POST /api/admin/users
Create a new user. Returns the user record and a one-time plaintext API token.
**Auth:** Admin
**Request body:**
```json
{
"display_name": "Alice Smith",
"email": "alice@example.com",
"role": "member"
}
```
| `display_name` | string | yes | | |
| `email` | string | no | `null` | Must be unique if provided |
| `role` | string | no | `"member"` | `"admin"` or `"member"` |
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
"email": "alice@example.com",
"display_name": "Alice Smith",
"status": "active",
"role": "member",
"token": "a1b2c3d4e5f6...64-char hex...",
"created_at": "2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00",
"created_by": "admin-user-id"
}
```
The `token` field is the plaintext API token. It is shown **only once** — store it securely.
**Errors:** `400` (missing display_name, invalid role), `403` (not admin), `503` (no database)
---
### GET /api/admin/users
List all users.
**Auth:** Admin
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"users": [
{
"id": "550e8400-...",
"email": "alice@example.com",
"display_name": "Alice Smith",
"status": "active",
"role": "member",
"created_at": "2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00",
"updated_at": "2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00",
"last_login_at": "2026-03-25T14:30:00+00:00",
"created_by": "admin-user-id"
}
]
}
```
---
### GET /api/admin/users/{id}
Get a single user by ID.
**Auth:** Admin
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"id": "550e8400-...",
"email": "alice@example.com",
"display_name": "Alice Smith",
"status": "active",
"role": "member",
"created_at": "2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00",
"updated_at": "2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00",
"last_login_at": "2026-03-25T14:30:00+00:00",
"created_by": "admin-user-id",
"metadata": {}
}
```
**Errors:** `404` (user not found), `403` (not admin)
---
### PATCH /api/admin/users/{id}
Update a user's display name and/or metadata. Omitted fields are left unchanged.
**Auth:** Admin
**Request body:**
```json
{
"display_name": "Alice Johnson",
"metadata": {"department": "engineering"}
}
```
| `display_name` | string | no | |
| `role` | string | no | `"admin"` or `"member"` |
| `metadata` | object | no | Replaces entire metadata object (full replacement; keys not included are removed) |
**Response:** `200 OK` — returns the full updated user record (same shape as GET detail, without `last_login_at`/`created_by`).
**Errors:** `404` (user not found), `403` (not admin)
---
### POST /api/admin/users/{id}/suspend
Suspend a user. Suspended users cannot authenticate (DB auth checks user status).
**Auth:** Admin
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"id": "550e8400-...",
"status": "suspended"
}
```
**Errors:** `404` (user not found), `403` (not admin)
---
### POST /api/admin/users/{id}/activate
Re-activate a suspended user.
**Auth:** Admin
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"id": "550e8400-...",
"status": "active"
}
```
**Errors:** `404` (user not found), `403` (not admin)
---
### DELETE /api/admin/users/{id}
Permanently delete a user and all associated data (tokens, jobs, conversations, memory, routines, settings, secrets).
**Auth:** Admin
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"id": "550e8400-...",
"deleted": true
}
```
**Errors:** `404` (user not found), `403` (not admin)
**Cascade:** Deletes from `api_tokens`, `agent_jobs`, `conversations`, `memory_documents`, `routines`, `secrets`, `settings`, `wasm_tools`, and related tables. On PostgreSQL this uses FK cascades; on libSQL it uses explicit deletes.
---
## Admin: Per-User Secrets
Provision secrets on behalf of individual users. The primary use case is an application backend (acting as admin) that configures per-user credentials so each user's IronClaw agent can call back to external services.
Secrets are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM using a per-secret HKDF-derived key. Plaintext values are **never returned** by any endpoint — they can only be used by the agent's tool system at runtime.
### PUT /api/admin/users/{user_id}/secrets/{name}
Create or update a secret for the specified user. If a secret with the same name already exists, it is overwritten.
**Auth:** Admin
**Path parameters:**
| `user_id` | string | The user's ID |
| `name` | string | Secret name (normalized to lowercase) |
**Request body:**
```json
{
"value": "sk-live-abc123...",
"provider": "my-app-backend",
"expires_in_days": 90
}
```
| `value` | string | yes | The secret value (encrypted at rest, never returned) |
| `provider` | string | no | Tag for grouping (e.g. `"stripe"`, `"my-app"`) |
| `expires_in_days` | integer | no | Auto-expire after N days; `null` = never |
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"user_id": "550e8400-...",
"name": "my_app_callback_token",
"status": "created"
}
```
**Errors:** `400` (missing value), `403` (not admin), `503` (secrets store not available)
**Example — application backend provisioning a callback token:**
```bash
# Admin creates a user
curl -X POST https://ironclaw.example.com/api/admin/users \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
-d '{"display_name": "Alice", "role": "member"}'
# Response includes: {"id": "alice-uuid", "token": "alice-bearer-token", ...}
# Admin provisions a per-user callback secret
curl -X PUT https://ironclaw.example.com/api/admin/users/alice-uuid/secrets/app_callback_token \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
-d '{"value": "per-user-jwt-for-alice", "provider": "my-app"}'
# Now Alice's IronClaw agent can use the "app_callback_token" secret
# when calling tools that need to authenticate back to the app backend.
```
---
### GET /api/admin/users/{user_id}/secrets
List a user's secrets. Returns names and providers only — **never values or hashes**.
**Auth:** Admin
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"user_id": "550e8400-...",
"secrets": [
{"name": "app_callback_token", "provider": "my-app"},
{"name": "openai_api_key", "provider": "openai"}
]
}
```
---
### DELETE /api/admin/users/{user_id}/secrets/{name}
Delete a specific secret for a user.
**Auth:** Admin
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"user_id": "550e8400-...",
"name": "app_callback_token",
"deleted": true
}
```
**Errors:** `404` (secret not found), `403` (not admin), `503` (secrets store not available)
---
## Admin: Usage
### GET /api/admin/usage
Per-user LLM usage statistics aggregated from `llm_calls` via `agent_jobs.user_id`.
**Auth:** Admin
**Query parameters:**
| `user_id` | string | all users | Filter to a single user |
| `period` | string | `"day"` | `"day"` (24h), `"week"` (7d), or `"month"` (30d) |
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"period": "week",
"since": "2026-03-18T12:00:00+00:00",
"usage": [
{
"user_id": "alice-id",
"model": "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250514",
"call_count": 42,
"input_tokens": 150000,
"output_tokens": 30000,
"total_cost": "1.23"
}
]
}
```
---
## Self-Service: Profile
### GET /api/profile
Get the authenticated user's own profile.
**Auth:** Any authenticated user
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"id": "550e8400-...",
"email": "alice@example.com",
"display_name": "Alice Smith",
"status": "active",
"role": "member",
"created_at": "2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00",
"last_login_at": "2026-03-25T14:30:00+00:00"
}
```
---
### PATCH /api/profile
Update the authenticated user's own display name and/or metadata.
**Auth:** Any authenticated user
**Request body:**
```json
{
"display_name": "Alice Johnson",
"metadata": {"theme": "dark"}
}
```
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"id": "550e8400-...",
"display_name": "Alice Johnson",
"updated": true
}
```
---
## Self-Service: Tokens
### POST /api/tokens
Create a new API token for the authenticated user. Admins can optionally create tokens for other users by including `user_id`.
**Auth:** Any authenticated user
**Request body:**
```json
{
"name": "CI pipeline",
"expires_in_days": 90,
"user_id": "other-user-id"
}
```
| `name` | string | yes | Human-readable label |
| `expires_in_days` | integer | no | `null` = never expires |
| `user_id` | string | no | Admin-only; create token for another user |
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"token": "a1b2c3d4...64-char hex...",
"id": "token-uuid",
"name": "CI pipeline",
"token_prefix": "a1b2c3d4",
"expires_at": "2026-06-23T12:00:00+00:00",
"created_at": "2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00"
}
```
The `token` field is shown **only once**.
---
### GET /api/tokens
List the authenticated user's tokens. Token hashes are never returned.
**Auth:** Any authenticated user
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"tokens": [
{
"id": "token-uuid",
"name": "CI pipeline",
"token_prefix": "a1b2c3d4",
"expires_at": "2026-06-23T12:00:00+00:00",
"last_used_at": "2026-03-25T14:00:00+00:00",
"created_at": "2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00",
"revoked_at": null
}
]
}
```
---
### DELETE /api/tokens/{id}
Revoke one of the authenticated user's tokens. Users can only revoke their own tokens.
**Auth:** Any authenticated user
**Path:** `id` — UUID of the token to revoke
**Response:** `200 OK`
```json
{
"status": "revoked",
"id": "token-uuid"
}
```
**Errors:** `400` (invalid UUID), `404` (token not found or belongs to another user)
---
## Error Format
All error responses return a plain text body with the error message and the corresponding HTTP status code:
| `400` | Bad request (missing fields, invalid input) |
| `401` | Missing or invalid bearer token |
| `403` | Authenticated but insufficient role (member accessing admin endpoint) |
| `404` | Resource not found |
| `503` | Database or secrets store not available |
| `500` | Internal server error |
---
## Security Model
### Secrets Encryption
- **Algorithm:** AES-256-GCM with per-secret HKDF-SHA256 derived keys
- **Master key:** 32+ bytes, resolved from `SECRETS_MASTER_KEY` env var or OS keychain
- **Storage format:** `nonce (12B) || ciphertext || tag (16B)` in `encrypted_value` column
- **Per-secret salt:** 32 random bytes stored alongside the ciphertext
- **Zero-exposure:** Plaintext never appears in logs, debug output, API responses, or LLM conversations
### Auth Cache
- Bounded LRU cache (1024 entries max)
- 60-second TTL per entry
- Suspending a user or revoking a token takes up to 60s to propagate
---
## Database Schema
### users
| `id` | `TEXT` / `TEXT` | Primary key; typically UUID v4 strings (bootstrap admin may use a custom ID) |
| `email` | `TEXT UNIQUE` | Nullable |
| `display_name` | `TEXT NOT NULL` | |
| `status` | `TEXT NOT NULL` | `"active"` or `"suspended"` |
| `role` | `TEXT NOT NULL` | `"admin"` or `"member"` |
| `created_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | |
| `updated_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | |
| `last_login_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | Nullable |
| `created_by` | `TEXT` | Nullable, references `users.id` |
| `metadata` | `JSONB` / `TEXT` | Default `{}` |
### api_tokens
| `id` | `UUID` / `TEXT` | Primary key |
| `user_id` | `TEXT NOT NULL` | FK to `users.id` (PG cascades; libSQL explicit cleanup) |
| `token_hash` | `BYTEA` / `BLOB` | SHA-256 of hex-encoded plaintext |
| `token_prefix` | `TEXT NOT NULL` | First 8 chars for identification |
| `name` | `TEXT NOT NULL` | Human-readable label |
| `expires_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | Nullable |
| `last_used_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | Nullable |
| `created_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | |
| `revoked_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | Nullable; set on revocation |
### secrets
| `id` | `UUID` / `TEXT` | Primary key |
| `user_id` | `TEXT NOT NULL` | Scoped to user |
| `name` | `TEXT NOT NULL` | Unique per user (lowercase normalized) |
| `encrypted_value` | `BYTEA` / `BLOB` | AES-256-GCM (nonce + ciphertext + tag) |
| `key_salt` | `BYTEA` / `BLOB` | Per-secret HKDF salt |
| `provider` | `TEXT` | Optional grouping tag |
| `expires_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | Nullable |
| `last_used_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | Audit: last injection time |
| `usage_count` | `BIGINT` / `INTEGER` | Audit: total injections |
| `created_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | |
| `updated_at` | `TIMESTAMPTZ` / `TEXT` | |