diff --git a/app/api/account/keys/route.ts b/app/api/account/keys/route.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2120021
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/api/account/keys/route.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+// API keys for the signed-in account.
+//
+// Session-authenticated only, deliberately: a key must not be able to mint
+// another key. Otherwise one leak becomes permanent access that outlives
+// revoking the key that leaked, and the revoke button stops meaning anything.
+
+import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server";
+import { resolveAccountId, bad, unauthorized } from "@/lib/api";
+import { createApiKey, listApiKeys, revokeApiKey } from "@/lib/apikeys";
+
+export const runtime = "nodejs";
+export const dynamic = "force-dynamic";
+
+/** GET /api/account/keys — the account's keys. Never the tokens; they are not stored. */
+export async function GET(req: NextRequest) {
+  const accountId = await resolveAccountId(req);
+  if (!accountId) return unauthorized();
+  return NextResponse.json({ keys: await listApiKeys(accountId) });
+}
+
+/**
+ * POST /api/account/keys { name? } — mint one.
+ *
+ * The token comes back exactly once. Only its hash is stored, so it cannot be
+ * shown again by us or by anyone who reaches the database — the response says
+ * so, because a UI that does not will produce a support ticket instead of a
+ * saved credential.
+ */
+export async function POST(req: NextRequest) {
+  const accountId = await resolveAccountId(req);
+  if (!accountId) return unauthorized();
+
+  const body = await req.json().catch(() => ({}));
+  const { token, row } = await createApiKey(accountId, body?.name);
+
+  return NextResponse.json(
+    { key: row, token, note: "Copy this now — it is stored only as a hash and cannot be shown again." },
+    { status: 201 },
+  );
+}
+
+/** DELETE /api/account/keys?id=... — revoke, effective on the next request. */
+export async function DELETE(req: NextRequest) {
+  const accountId = await resolveAccountId(req);
+  if (!accountId) return unauthorized();
+
+  const id = req.nextUrl.searchParams.get("id") ?? "";
+  if (!id) return bad("id is required");
+
+  // Scoped to the account inside the UPDATE, so a wrong id is indistinguishable
+  // from someone else's id: neither reveals whether that key exists.
+  return (await revokeApiKey(accountId, id))
+    ? NextResponse.json({ id, revoked: true })
+    : bad("no such key", 404);
+}
diff --git a/app/api/moshpit/tlds/[tld]/pins/route.ts b/app/api/moshpit/tlds/[tld]/pins/route.ts
index d2a885a..47d274d 100644
--- a/app/api/moshpit/tlds/[tld]/pins/route.ts
+++ b/app/api/moshpit/tlds/[tld]/pins/route.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server";
-import { resolveAccountId, bad, unauthorized } from "@/lib/api";
+import { resolveAccountIdOrToken, bad, unauthorized } from "@/lib/api";
 import { PIN_KINDS, addPin, listPins, normalizePinKind, removePin } from "@/lib/moshpit";
 
 export const runtime = "nodejs";
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export async function GET(req: NextRequest, ctx: { params: Promise<{ tld: string
  * would break every client between the write and the deploy.
  */
 export async function POST(req: NextRequest, ctx: { params: Promise<{ tld: string }> }) {
-  const accountId = await resolveAccountId(req);
+  const accountId = await resolveAccountIdOrToken(req);
   if (!accountId) return unauthorized();
   const { tld } = await ctx.params;
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ export async function POST(req: NextRequest, ctx: { params: Promise<{ tld: strin
 
 /** DELETE /api/moshpit/tlds/:tld/pins?pin=... — withdraw a key. */
 export async function DELETE(req: NextRequest, ctx: { params: Promise<{ tld: string }> }) {
-  const accountId = await resolveAccountId(req);
+  const accountId = await resolveAccountIdOrToken(req);
   if (!accountId) return unauthorized();
   const { tld } = await ctx.params;
 
diff --git a/lib/api.ts b/lib/api.ts
index 088ecd1..dcc4829 100644
--- a/lib/api.ts
+++ b/lib/api.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server";
 import { sessionUser, getOrCreateUser } from "./authz";
 import { readSession, authConfigured, SESSION_COOKIE } from "./session";
 import { findOrCreateAccountByEmail } from "./db";
+import { accountIdForToken, bearerToken } from "./apikeys";
 
 /** Resolve the authenticated user (provisioning a default org/team on first hit). */
 export async function requireUser(req: NextRequest) {
@@ -25,5 +26,22 @@ export async function resolveAccountId(req: NextRequest): Promise<string | null>
   return null;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The account for a request, accepting an API key as well as a session.
+ *
+ * Separate from `resolveAccountId` rather than folded into it, so that adding
+ * a key path does not silently widen every account-scoped endpoint at once.
+ * A route opts in by calling this one, and the diff shows which routes did.
+ *
+ * Session first: a browser request carries both a cookie and, sometimes, an
+ * unrelated Authorization header, and the cookie is the stronger statement of
+ * who is driving.
+ */
+export async function resolveAccountIdOrToken(req: NextRequest): Promise<string | null> {
+  const session = await resolveAccountId(req);
+  if (session) return session;
+  return accountIdForToken(bearerToken(req.headers.get("authorization")));
+}
+
 export const unauthorized = () => NextResponse.json({ error: "Sign in first." }, { status: 401 });
 export const bad = (msg: string, status = 400) => NextResponse.json({ error: msg }, { status });
diff --git a/lib/apikeys.ts b/lib/apikeys.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e1766a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/apikeys.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+// API keys: letting something other than a browser act for an account.
+//
+// Every account-scoped endpoint here authenticated by session cookie alone,
+// which meant no CLI, script, or CI job could call one. For key pins that was
+// not an inconvenience but a correctness problem — a Moshpit name's TLS is
+// unverifiable until its pin is published, and publishing meant a person
+// reading a base64 hash out of a script and pasting it into a form. Steps like
+// that do not happen at scale, so most names simply had no pin.
+//
+// Only the hash of a key is stored. A leaked backup of the table cannot be
+// used to authenticate, and nobody — including whoever runs the registry — can
+// read a key back after it is created. That is why creation returns the token
+// exactly once and the UI has to say so.
+
+import crypto from "node:crypto";
+import { db, ensureSchema } from "./db";
+
+/** Recognisable in a log or an env var, and greppable in a leak scan. */
+const PREFIX = "mpk_";
+/** Kept in clear so a person can tell two keys apart when revoking one. */
+const PREFIX_KEEP = PREFIX.length + 6;
+
+export type ApiKeyRow = {
+  id: string;
+  name: string | null;
+  prefix: string;
+  created_at: string;
+  last_used: string | null;
+  revoked_at: string | null;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Hash a presented token.
+ *
+ * Plain SHA-256 rather than a password KDF, deliberately. A password is short,
+ * low-entropy and guessable, so it needs a slow hash. This token is 32 random
+ * bytes from a CSPRNG — brute force is not a threat model that arithmetic
+ * supports — and it is verified on every API request, where a slow hash would
+ * be a denial-of-service surface pointed at ourselves.
+ */
+function hash(token: string): string {
+  return crypto.createHash("sha256").update(token, "utf8").digest("hex");
+}
+
+/** 32 bytes of CSPRNG, base64url so it survives env vars, headers and shells. */
+export function generateToken(): string {
+  return PREFIX + crypto.randomBytes(32).toString("base64url");
+}
+
+/** Pull the bearer token out of a request, if it carries one. */
+export function bearerToken(header: string | null | undefined): string | null {
+  const value = String(header ?? "").trim();
+  if (!value) return null;
+  const match = /^Bearer\s+(.+)$/i.exec(value);
+  const token = (match ? match[1] : value).trim();
+  return token.startsWith(PREFIX) ? token : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Mint a key. The token is returned once and never again.
+ *
+ * Session-authenticated callers only — a key must not be able to mint another
+ * key, or a single leak becomes permanent access that survives revoking the
+ * key that leaked.
+ */
+export async function createApiKey(accountId: string, name?: string | null): Promise<{ token: string; row: ApiKeyRow }> {
+  await ensureSchema();
+  const token = generateToken();
+  const clean = typeof name === "string" && name.trim() ? name.trim().slice(0, 80) : null;
+  const prefix = token.slice(0, PREFIX_KEEP);
+
+  const created = await db().execute({
+    sql: `INSERT INTO account_api_keys (account_id, name, token_hash, prefix)
+          VALUES (?,?,?,?)
+          RETURNING id, name, prefix, created_at, last_used, revoked_at`,
+    args: [accountId, clean, hash(token), prefix],
+  });
+
+  return { token, row: created.rows[0] as unknown as ApiKeyRow };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The account a token belongs to, or null.
+ *
+ * Looked up by hash, so the comparison happens inside the index rather than in
+ * our code — there is no string compare here to leak timing, and no way to
+ * probe for a valid token by measuring the response.
+ *
+ * A revoked key resolves to null immediately: revocation has to take effect on
+ * the next request, not on the next deploy or cache expiry.
+ */
+export async function accountIdForToken(token: string | null | undefined): Promise<string | null> {
+  if (!token || !token.startsWith(PREFIX)) return null;
+  await ensureSchema();
+
+  const found = await db().execute({
+    sql: `SELECT id, account_id FROM account_api_keys WHERE token_hash = ? AND revoked_at IS NULL`,
+    args: [hash(token)],
+  });
+  const row = found.rows[0] as unknown as { id: string; account_id: string } | undefined;
+  if (!row) return null;
+
+  // Best-effort: a failed timestamp update must not fail the request it was
+  // recording. The write is only there so an unused key can be spotted later.
+  db()
+    .execute({ sql: `UPDATE account_api_keys SET last_used = datetime('now') WHERE id = ?`, args: [row.id] })
+    .catch(() => {});
+
+  return row.account_id;
+}
+
+/** Keys for an account. Never includes the token — it does not exist here. */
+export async function listApiKeys(accountId: string): Promise<ApiKeyRow[]> {
+  await ensureSchema();
+  const rows = await db().execute({
+    sql: `SELECT id, name, prefix, created_at, last_used, revoked_at
+          FROM account_api_keys WHERE account_id = ? ORDER BY created_at DESC`,
+    args: [accountId],
+  });
+  return rows.rows as unknown as ApiKeyRow[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Revoke a key.
+ *
+ * Scoped to the account in the statement itself rather than checked
+ * beforehand, so there is no window between the check and the write, and no
+ * way to revoke somebody else's key by guessing an id.
+ */
+export async function revokeApiKey(accountId: string, id: string): Promise<boolean> {
+  await ensureSchema();
+  const done = await db().execute({
+    sql: `UPDATE account_api_keys SET revoked_at = datetime('now')
+          WHERE id = ? AND account_id = ? AND revoked_at IS NULL`,
+    args: [id, accountId],
+  });
+  return (done.rowsAffected ?? 0) > 0;
+}
diff --git a/lib/db.ts b/lib/db.ts
index 9116edb..76ccee5 100644
--- a/lib/db.ts
+++ b/lib/db.ts
@@ -312,6 +312,38 @@ async function initSchema(): Promise<void> {
     )
   `);
 
+  // ---- API keys, so something other than a browser can act for an account.
+  //
+  // Every account-scoped endpoint authenticated by session cookie only, which
+  // meant no CLI, script, or CI job could call one. For key pins that was not
+  // an inconvenience but a correctness problem: a name's TLS is unverifiable
+  // until its pin is published, and publishing was a person reading a hash out
+  // of a script and pasting it into a form. Steps like that do not happen, so
+  // most names had no pin.
+  //
+  // Only the hash is stored. A leaked backup of this table cannot be used to
+  // authenticate, and nobody — including whoever runs the registry — can read
+  // a key back out after it is created.
+  //
+  // `prefix` is the first few characters, kept in clear on purpose: it is what
+  // lets a person recognise which key a row refers to when revoking one,
+  // without it being enough to use.
+  await d.execute(`
+    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS account_api_keys (
+      id         TEXT PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT (lower(hex(randomblob(16)))),
+      account_id TEXT NOT NULL,
+      name       TEXT,
+      token_hash TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE,
+      prefix     TEXT NOT NULL,
+      created_at TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT (datetime('now')),
+      last_used  TEXT,
+      revoked_at TEXT
+    )
+  `);
+  // Lookup is by hash on every authenticated request, so it must not be a scan.
+  await d.execute(`CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_account_api_keys_hash ON account_api_keys (token_hash)`);
+  await d.execute(`CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_account_api_keys_acct ON account_api_keys (account_id)`);
+
   // ---- domain auctions: one per domain, runs FOREVER (no expiry) — the owner
   // collects bids until they accept one. Owner sets an optional reserve (hidden
   // from bidders) and buy-now (a bid >= buy_now auto-wins). Managed on /dashboard.
diff --git a/tests/apikeys.test.mjs b/tests/apikeys.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2afd07a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/apikeys.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+// API keys — the properties that make them safe to hand to a script.
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import crypto from "node:crypto";
+
+import { generateToken, bearerToken } from "../lib/apikeys.ts";
+
+test("a token is 32 bytes of randomness behind a recognisable prefix", () => {
+  const token = generateToken();
+  assert.match(token, /^mpk_/, "greppable in a leak scan, and obvious in a log");
+
+  const body = token.slice("mpk_".length);
+  assert.equal(Buffer.from(body, "base64url").length, 32, "32 bytes from a CSPRNG");
+  // base64url, so it survives env vars, shells and headers without quoting.
+  assert.match(body, /^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/);
+});
+
+test("tokens do not repeat", () => {
+  const seen = new Set(Array.from({ length: 200 }, () => generateToken()));
+  assert.equal(seen.size, 200);
+});
+
+test("the bearer header is parsed, and anything else is not a token", () => {
+  const token = generateToken();
+  assert.equal(bearerToken(`Bearer ${token}`), token);
+  assert.equal(bearerToken(`bearer ${token}`), token, "the scheme is case-insensitive per RFC 7235");
+  assert.equal(bearerToken(token), token, "a bare token is accepted too");
+
+  // A session cookie, a Basic credential or an unrelated header must not be
+  // mistaken for a key — they would be hashed and looked up, and a miss is
+  // indistinguishable from a revoked key in the logs.
+  assert.equal(bearerToken("Basic dXNlcjpwYXNz"), null);
+  assert.equal(bearerToken("Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.abc.def"), null, "a JWT is not one of ours");
+  assert.equal(bearerToken(""), null);
+  assert.equal(bearerToken(null), null);
+  assert.equal(bearerToken(undefined), null);
+});
+
+test("the stored hash cannot be turned back into a token", () => {
+  // The property that matters if the table leaks: SHA-256 over 32 random bytes
+  // has no shortcut, so a dump is not a set of usable credentials.
+  const token = generateToken();
+  const stored = crypto.createHash("sha256").update(token, "utf8").digest("hex");
+
+  assert.equal(stored.length, 64);
+  assert.ok(!stored.includes(token.slice(4, 20)), "no part of the token survives in the hash");
+  assert.equal(
+    crypto.createHash("sha256").update(token, "utf8").digest("hex"),
+    stored,
+    "the same token always hashes the same, which is what makes lookup by hash work",
+  );
+});
+
+test("the retained prefix identifies a key without being enough to use one", () => {
+  const token = generateToken();
+  const prefix = token.slice(0, "mpk_".length + 6);
+
+  assert.ok(token.startsWith(prefix));
+  // Six characters is enough to tell two keys apart in a list and far too few
+  // to guess the remaining 32 bytes.
+  assert.ok(prefix.length < token.length / 4);
+});