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# Tokens

## Personal Access Tokens

A personal access token is a token that can be used for programmatic access to the dbnl platform through the SDK.

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Tokens are not revocable at this time. Please remember to keep your tokens safe.
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### Permissions

A personal access token has the same permissions as the user that created it. See [Users and Permissions](/v0.20.x/using-distributional/access/users-and-permissions.md) for more details about permissions.

Token permissions are resolved at use time, not creation time. As such, changing the user permissions after creating a personal access token will change the permissions of the personal access token.

### Create a Personal Access Token

To create a new personal access token, go to **☰ > Personal Access Tokens** and click **Create Token**.

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Personal access tokens are implemented using [JSON Web Tokens](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519) and are not persisted. Tokens cannot be recovered if lost and a new token will need to be created.  
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