# eesel AI API Authentication

The public website utility and preview endpoints listed in [openapi.json](https://www.eesel.ai/openapi.json) do not require authentication. Do not send eesel AI dashboard credentials to these endpoints.

Private dashboard, administrative, and workspace APIs are outside the published public API. Authenticated access to a workspace goes through the eesel CLI (`eesel login`) and workspace MCP tokens (`eesel mcp token`), documented at [docs.eesel.ai](https://docs.eesel.ai/apis-and-developer-resources/cli). Do not send those tokens to the public website endpoints. If eesel AI adds authenticated endpoints to this public website API, their credential type, scopes, and examples will be documented here before they are added to the OpenAPI specification.