> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developer.qaip.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create a secret

> <p> Creates a new secret. </p> <p> Required roles: All </p>




## OpenAPI

````yaml https://app.stainless.com/api/spec/documented/qaip/openapi.documented.yml post /secrets
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: QAIP APIs
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://developer.qaip.com/api/v1
    description: API base path
security:
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - name: completions
    description: Generate completions
  - name: search
    description: Search content
  - name: extract
    description: Data extraction using LLM
  - name: tags
    description: List available tags
  - name: agent
    description: (Experimental) Agent operations
  - name: tag-source-groups
    description: Tag and source group associations
  - name: source-groups
    description: Source group (job) management and metadata
  - name: sources
    description: Sources management and metadata
  - name: local-file-groups
    description: Local file group management
  - name: secrets
    description: Secret management
  - name: google-drives
    description: Google Drive data source management
  - name: google-drive-settings
    description: Google Drive data source setting management
  - name: crawls
    description: Web crawl data source management
  - name: crawl-settings
    description: Web crawl setting management
  - name: githubs
    description: GitHub data source management
  - name: github-settings
    description: GitHub data source setting management
  - name: notions
    description: Notion data source management
  - name: notion-settings
    description: Notion data source setting management
  - name: authz-subject-attributes
    description: Authorization subject attribute management (admin only)
paths:
  /secrets:
    post:
      tags:
        - secrets
      summary: Create a secret
      description: |
        <p> Creates a new secret. </p> <p> Required roles: All </p>
      operationId: createSecret
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateSecretRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successfully created secret
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Secret'
        '400':
          description: Bad Request
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '403':
          description: Plan limit reached
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '500':
          description: Internal Server Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      security:
        - ApiKeyAuth: []
      x-codeSamples:
        - lang: Python
          source: |-
            import os
            from qaip import Qaip

            client = Qaip(
                api_key=os.environ.get("QAIP_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
            )
            secret = client.secrets.create(
                name="name",
                secret="secret",
                type="google_drive",
            )
            print(secret.id)
components:
  schemas:
    CreateSecretRequest:
      type: object
      required:
        - name
        - secret
        - type
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: Name of the secret
          maxLength: 200
        secret:
          type: string
          description: The secret value
          maxLength: 5000
        type:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SecretType'
        description:
          type: string
          description: Description of the secret
          maxLength: 1000
    Secret:
      type: object
      required:
        - id
        - name
        - type
        - last_update_time
        - creation_time
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Secret ID
        name:
          type: string
          description: Name of the secret
        type:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SecretType'
        description:
          type: string
          description: Description of the secret
        last_update_time:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: Last updated time (Unix timestamp in seconds)
        creation_time:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: Creation time (Unix timestamp in seconds)
    Error:
      type: object
      required:
        - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          required:
            - message
            - type
          properties:
            message:
              type: string
              description: Human-readable error message
            type:
              type: string
              description: Machine-readable error code
    SecretType:
      type: string
      description: The type of the secret
      enum:
        - google_drive
        - github
        - notion
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key
      description: API key for authentication

````