Claude's Admin API can now manage your org
Anthropic added beta user and group management to the Admin API, letting Claude Enterprise teams list, invite, and remove members programmatically.
Anthropic has added user and group management to the Admin API for Claude Enterprise organizations, now in beta. Admin API keys can list members, look them up by email, change a member’s role, remove members, send and withdraw invites, and manage groups and custom roles, all programmatically rather than through the claude.ai console.
Group and custom-role requests require an anthropic-beta: ce-user-management-2026-07-13 header; member and invite requests need no beta header. An Admin API key with the read:org_audit scope can also call every user-management GET endpoint, which is useful for building read-only auditing tools without granting write access.
This is a plumbing update, not a new model or capability, but it closes a real gap for larger Claude Enterprise deployments. Any team that has been manually adding and removing seats as headcount changes, or wiring together spreadsheet-driven access reviews, can now automate that against a documented API surface instead.
If your organization runs Claude Enterprise at any scale, this is worth wiring into your existing identity-management pipeline (SCIM-style provisioning, offboarding scripts, access-review tooling) rather than treating it as a nice-to-have. See give your ai agents their own keys for the related question of scoping machine access alongside human access.