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# credentials create

> Create credential

Stores a connection to a real system: either an API base URL, the header that carries the credential, and the header value, or an app login with its sign-in URL, username, and password. Returns the credential without its value.

```bash theme={null}
continuous credentials create [flags]
```

## Examples

```bash theme={null}
continuous credentials create --name stripe-test --value Bearer <redacted>
```

## Flags

**--base-url, -b** `string`

The https URL of the real system. Requests go to paths under it. Send exactly one of base\_url and login.

**--body** `string`

Request body as JSON (alternative to individual flags). Can also be provided via stdin.

**--header** `string`

The HTTP header that carries the value. Defaults to Authorization. Not allowed with login.

**--login, -l** `string`

JSON object

**--name, -n** `string` *required*

Credential name.

**--value, -v** `string` *required*

The full header value, for example Bearer followed by a token, or the login password. The API never returns it.

Global flags apply to every command. See [Global flags](https://docs.continuouslabs.ai/cli/global-flags.md).


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