Setup API Key

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user needs to configure an ElevenLabs API key
• SDK request fails because a key is missing

Example prompts

• “Use the setup-api-key skill to guide users through setting up an ElevenLabs API key for REST API and SDK workflows”
• “/setup-api-key”

Requirements

• A credential in ELEVENLABS_API_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires internet access to elevenlabs.io and api.elevenlabs.io.

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Check for an existing API key first
2. 2Request the API key
3. 3Validate and configure

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1d08a4a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • api.elevenlabs.io

  Also links to:

  • elevenlabs.io

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • ELEVENLABS_API_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Requires internet access to elevenlabs.io and api.elevenlabs.io.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Setup API Key loads about 954 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 499 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~83

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~954

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:19

  if it is not in the environment, check `.env` for `ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=<value>`.

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:49

  Instead, copy/paste it into your local `.env` file:

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:55

  > If `.env` already has an `ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=...` line, replace that line.

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:64

  1. Re-check both `.env` and the current environment for `ELEVENLABS_API_KEY`, but treat `.env` as the source of truth fo

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:65

  2. If `.env` contains a value, validate that value even when the current environment also has a different `ELEVENLABS_AP

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:66

  3. If `.env` does not contain the key:

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:67

  - Tell the user `.env` does not appear to contain `ELEVENLABS_API_KEY`.

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:69

  s step still requires saving the key in `.env`.

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:71

  4. If a `.env` key is found, validate it:

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:79

  - Ask them to replace the `.env` value and tell you when it is saved.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from elevenlabs/skills at commit 1d08a4a, republished under its MIT licence (© elevenlabs). 499 words, ~954 tokens.

name

setup-api-key

description

Guides users through setting up an ElevenLabs API key for REST API and SDK workflows. Use when the user needs to configure an ElevenLabs API key or when an API or SDK request fails because a key is missing. First checks whether ELEVENLABS_API_KEY is already configured and valid, and only runs full setup when needed.

compatibility

Requires internet access to elevenlabs.io and api.elevenlabs.io.

license

MIT

© elevenlabs, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in setup-api-key of elevenlabs/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1d08a4a