# Credentials — Credential bindings

> A credential bindings file records which credential mechanisms and domains you've approved for each service.

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## Knowledge

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A credential bindings file records which credential mechanisms and domains you've approved for each service. It lives at ~/.config/sbx/credentials.yaml, or %APPDATA%\sbx\credentials.yaml on Windows.

Third-party kits that declare schemaVersion: "2" require an approved binding for each credential they use. sbx creates one interactively the first time you run such a kit (see First-run approval); you can also write entries by hand. Credentials declared only by embedded, built-in kits are authorized by provenance and don't need a binding.

Each entry under bindings is keyed by a service identifier and approves one or both credential mechanisms

apiKey — approves injecting the service's stored API key. The value comes from the secret store (sbx secret set ); the binding records approval, it doesn't hold or locate the value. oauth — approves the OAuth flow for the service. You sign in on the host, and the proxy handles token refresh and routing. OAuth domains include the token endpoint host and any resource hosts declared by the kit.

Each mechanism takes a domains list that records the domains you approved. sbx asks for approval when a kit requests domains that the existing binding doesn't cover.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
bindings:
  anthropic:
    apiKey:
      domains: [api.anthropic.com]
  github:
    apiKey:
      domains: [api.github.com, github.com]
```

A binding is only an approval record: the presence of apiKey or oauth authorizes that mechanism. Declining a credential writes no entry at all. The real credential isn't stored in this file.

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