{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"api-key-login-option-use-your-existing-key-removed","canonical_anchor":"api-key-login-option-use-your-existing-key-removed","heading":"The option to reuse your existing Claude Code API key at login is gone","tier":"notice","area":"Auth","scope":"individual","heads_up":true,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/api-key-login-option-use-your-existing-key-removed","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### The option to reuse your existing Claude Code API key at login is gone\n\nThe API key login choice now offers only a long-lived subscription token or a new API key, not your existing key\n\n**What**\n\nAn API key is a secret code that lets Claude Code use your account. When you choose how to sign in with one, you now get two options:\n\n- \"Create a long-lived token with your Claude subscription\"\n\n- \"Enter a new API key\"\n\nThe third option, \"Use your existing Claude Code API key\", has been removed. It is no longer chosen for you when an existing key is found. The choice starts on the token or the new key instead.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis is a small change to the login screen. If you used to pick your existing key here, you now enter a key or create a token instead.\n\n- Area: Auth\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: yes"}