Personal Access Token

To authenticate outside the Starhive app, you need a Personal Access Token (PAT). A PAT represents the user who issued it, and carries every permission that user has.

Several features require one, including the Public API, the Channels extension, API Connectors, and the StarQL-in-JQL refresh in the Jira integration.

caution

Keep the token secure — anyone who has it can act as the issuing user.

Generating a PAT

Workspace Settings → Personal access tokens. Set a validity period from one day up to one year. Every Starhive PAT is prefixed sp_, followed by an arbitrary string.

Using it

Pass it in the Authorization header with a Bearer prefix:

Authorization: Bearer sp_12ef...