Keys are minted directly from the dashboard by an admin of an active account, and the raw
tf_live_… secret is shown once, in the creation response — store it somewhere safe at
that moment, because it is never shown again.
Approval gates the account, not each key. A new signup is inactive until a superadmin
activates it, and an inactive account cannot mint keys at all. There is no per-key
request-and-approval flow.
GET /v1/whoami returns the account the key is bound to — a cheap way to confirm a key is
live and pointed at the right account before you wire up a batch: