# Access tokens can now be scoped to teams

**Published:** March 15, 2022 | **Authors:** Gaspar Garcia

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Access tokens used in the CLI and for authenticating APIs can now be scoped to specific Teams.

This improvement provides additional security and controls for those extending the Vercel platform through our CLI or our APIs.

Check out [the documentation](https://vercel.com/docs/rest-api#introduction/api-basics/authentication) as well.

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