## Summary
The access token was only ever used by the CLI, never by any SDK
operation — sandbox, template, and volume calls all authenticate with
the API key. This cleans up the auth plumbing and **deprecates** (rather
than removes) the access token on `ConnectionConfig`, so there's no
breaking change for direct SDK consumers.
## Changes
- **Deprecated** the `accessToken` (JS) / `access_token` (Python) option
on `ConnectionConfig`. It still works exactly as before — when set (or
via `E2B_ACCESS_TOKEN`) the `Authorization: Bearer` header is still sent
— but `apiHeaders` is now the recommended way to pass custom auth.
- **Clear error when the API key is missing**, pointing to the API Keys
tab (`https://e2b.dev/dashboard?tab=keys`). In JS this is gated by a
`requireApiKey` option (default `true`) so callers that authenticate
differently — like the CLI hitting `/teams` with an access token — can
opt out; in Python the API key is always required.
- Removed the unused access-token toggle from the API clients:
`requireAccessToken` (JS) / `require_access_token` (Python). No caller
ever set it to a non-default value, so behavior is unchanged.
- The CLI now passes the access token to the `/teams` endpoint via
`apiHeaders` instead of the deprecated option, and opts out of the
API-key requirement on its own clients.
- Decoupled the sandbox-scoped envd access token from
`ConnectionConfig`: `EnvdApiClient` now owns its own `envdAccessToken`
field and sets the `X-Access-Token` header itself, removing a redundant
manually-set header.
## Recommended usage
```ts
// Deprecated
new ConnectionConfig({ accessToken: 'my-token' })
// Preferred
new ConnectionConfig({ apiHeaders: { Authorization: 'Bearer my-token' } })
```
```python
# Deprecated
ConnectionConfig(access_token="my-token")
# Preferred
ConnectionConfig(api_headers={"Authorization": "Bearer my-token"})
```
## Verification
`pnpm run typecheck`, `pnpm run lint`, Python `make typecheck`, and the
unit tests all pass — including new tests for the API-key requirement
(and its opt-out) in both SDKs. Confirmed the `Authorization: Bearer`
header is still sent for both the deprecated option and
`E2B_ACCESS_TOKEN`.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mish Ushakov
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