Command-line interface (ap)

The ap CLI under cmd/cli/ is the developer/operator tool for talking to a running AuthProxy server: listing connectors and connections, signing JWTs to drive scripted calls, and running local reverse proxies that route through a connection’s credentials.

Build/run:

go run ./cmd/cli <command>           # from a checkout
go install ./cmd/cli && ap <command> # installed as $GOBIN/ap

The rest of this doc uses ap <command> for brevity.

Configuration

The config file

ap reads ~/.authproxy.yaml by default. Override with --config <path>.

# Default actor signed onto outbound requests. If omitted, --actorId on
# the command line is required (or `--admin` falls back to the current
# OS username).
admin_username: bobdole

# Asymmetric signing key (RS256). Use this for the standard dev setup —
# the public key lives in the server's system_auth.jwt_signing_key block.
admin_private_key_path: /path/to/private/key

# Optional alternative: HMAC shared secret (HS256). Mutually exclusive
# with admin_private_key_path on a given invocation.
# admin_shared_key_path: /path/to/shared.secret

# Base URLs for each AuthProxy service. Only the services you call need
# to be set — `api` is the most common for everyday CLI use.
server:
  api: http://localhost:8081
  admin_api: http://localhost:8082
  auth: http://localhost:8080
  marketplace: http://localhost:5173
  admin_ui: http://localhost:5174

# Defaults for `ap signing-proxy`. Useful when several AuthProxy clones
# share one machine — each clone's signing-proxy needs its own port. The
# `env_var` form lets one shared ~/.authproxy.yaml pick up the per-clone
# value from the clone's .env (AUTHPROXY_SIGNING_PROXY_PORT).
signing_proxy:
  port:
    env_var: AUTHPROXY_SIGNING_PROXY_PORT
    default: "8888"

Every value here can be overridden per-invocation by the flag of the same shape (--apiUrl, --privateKeyPath, --actorId, --port, etc.).

Signing keys

AuthProxy supports two JWT signing modes:

Mode	YAML field / flag	Server-side counterpart
RS256 (asymmetric)	admin_private_key_path / --privateKeyPath	system_auth.jwt_signing_key.public_key.path
HS256 (shared secret)	admin_shared_key_path / --secretKeyPath	system_auth.jwt_signing_key.private_key.path (used as the shared secret)

The dev stack ships a ready-to-use RSA keypair under dev_config/keys/admin/ (bobdole + bobdole.pub) paired with the matching public key registered in dev_config/default.yaml. Point admin_private_key_path at dev_config/keys/admin/bobdole and you’re signed in as bobdole against a fresh docker compose up -d server.

Actor and scope

Every signed token has an actor (who is making the call) and a service-id allowlist (which AuthProxy services the token is valid against).

• Actor defaults: --actorId > YAML admin_username > current OS username (only when --admin is set).
• Service allowlist defaults to all. Override with --apis admin-api,api to scope a token down. Valid IDs: admin-api, api, public, worker.
• --admin flips the token’s permissions to match the system_auth.actors.permissions block on the server (full access in the dev config).

Commands

ap list connectors / ap list connections

Paginates GET /api/v1/connectors and GET /api/v1/connections, printing each item to stdout. Used to discover IDs to feed to the other commands.

ap list connectors --type oauth2 --state active --output table
ap list connections --order "created_at DESC"

Useful flags: --state, --type (connectors only), --order "<field> ASC|DESC", plus the global output flags from the Output helper (--output json|jsonl|table, --limit, …).

ap sign-jwt

Prints a signed JWT to stdout — useful for piping into curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $(ap sign-jwt)" or for debugging server-side verification.

ap sign-jwt --admin                   # sign as the current OS user, all services
ap sign-jwt --actorId alice --apis api

Useful scoping flags:

Flag	Purpose
--expires-in 24h	Adds an expiration relative to now. Durations accept Go units plus d for days.
--no-expiry	Leaves the token without an expiration. Mutually exclusive with --expires-in.
--permissions-file perms.yaml	Adds top-level JWT permission restrictions from a YAML/JSON array or {permissions: [...]} object.
--grafana-preset aggregate	Adds least-privilege permissions for Grafana app-metrics time-series dashboards and live dropdown variables. Defaults expiration to 90 days.
--grafana-preset logs	Includes the aggregate preset plus request-events:list for request-log metadata tables. Defaults expiration to 90 days.

Grafana datasource token examples:

# Metrics dashboards only.
ap sign-jwt --actorId grafana --apis api,admin-api --grafana-preset aggregate

# Metrics plus request-event metadata tables.
ap sign-jwt --actorId grafana --apis api,admin-api --grafana-preset logs

# Provisioned datasource token with no expiry.
ap sign-jwt --actorId grafana --apis api,admin-api --grafana-preset logs --no-expiry

Grafana presets use top-level JWT permissions. Those permissions only restrict the token; the backing actor still needs matching normal permissions.

Permission namespaces in a permissions file support the same actor templates as normal actor permissions: {{external_id}}, {{labels.<label>}}, and {{annotations.<annotation>}}. These render against the backing actor, and missing label or annotation values make the permission fail to match.

ap verify-jwt

Reads a JWT on stdin and verifies it against the supplied public/secret key.

echo "$TOKEN" | ap verify-jwt --publicKeyPath /etc/authproxy/keys/system.pub

ap signing-proxy

Long-running reverse proxy that signs an admin JWT onto every forwarded request, then sends it to one of the AuthProxy services. This is the tool for driving the admin UI / marketplace SPA against a local backend without baking auth into the browser.

ap signing-proxy --proxyTo=api --port 8888
ap signing-proxy --proxyTo=admin-api --enableLoginRedirect=true

--proxyTo accepts a service id (api, admin-api, public) or an absolute URL. --enableLoginRedirect adds a /login-redirect handler that simulates the host application’s session-initiation flow — wire host_application.initiate_session_url (or admin_api.ui.initiate_session_url) at the printed URL.

--port defaults to 8888. If the CLI config sets signing_proxy.port, that value is used instead when --port is not given on the command line. Multiple clones on one machine should set AUTHPROXY_SIGNING_PROXY_PORT per clone in their .env and reference it from a shared ~/.authproxy.yaml via signing_proxy.port.env_var.

ap proxy — connection-scoped streaming proxy

Routes inbound requests through POST /api/v1/connections/{id}/_proxy_raw so the connection’s credentials are applied and bodies stream end-to-end (chunked uploads, SSE responses).

Long-running mode. Boots a listener on --port (default 9999). Each inbound request derives its X-AuthProxy-Upstream-URL from --upstream-base (path + query appended) or the caller may set the header directly.

# Auto-derive upstream from base.
ap proxy --connection cxn_abc --upstream-base https://api.openai.com
curl http://127.0.0.1:9999/v1/chat/completions -d @body.json

# Caller-supplied upstream — no --upstream-base.
ap proxy --connection cxn_abc
curl http://127.0.0.1:9999/ \
  -H 'X-AuthProxy-Upstream-URL: https://api.openai.com/v1/models'

One-shot mode — append a literal curl or wget plus that tool’s own argv. ap proxy boots an ephemeral-port listener in-process, rewrites the URL’s scheme+host to point at it (path/query preserved), and execs the tool. Stdout/stderr/exit-code pass through verbatim.

ap proxy --connection cxn_abc curl https://api.openai.com/v1/models
ap proxy --connection cxn_abc curl -X POST https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @body.json
ap proxy --connection cxn_abc wget https://api.example.com/files/big.bin -O out.bin

All ap proxy flags must come before the curl/wget literal — Flags().SetInterspersed(false) stops cobra’s flag parser at the first positional, so curl’s own flags (-X, -d, --config, …) reach the tool without colliding with ours.

Hop-by-hop headers (RFC 7230 §6.1) are stripped on both legs of the proxy hop. Response bodies are flushed after each write so SSE streams tick out in real time.

ap sign-marketplace-login-url

Generates a signed marketplace login URL — the URL the host application redirects the user to so the marketplace SPA can establish a session.

ap sign-marketplace-login-url --actorId alice

ap login-redirect

Local stand-in for a host application’s session-initiation endpoint. Hosts /login-redirect on the configured port and returns the same payload your real host would. Useful when developing UI changes against a local stack without spinning up the host app.

ap login-redirect --port 8889

Common recipes

Drive a probe against a connector with a scratch JWT

TOKEN=$(ap sign-jwt --admin --apis api)
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  http://localhost:8081/api/v1/connectors/openai/probes/list-models

Stream a chunked upload to MinIO through a connection

ap proxy --connection cxn_minio --upstream-base http://minio:9000 &
curl -X PUT -T big.bin http://127.0.0.1:9999/bucket/big.bin

Live-tail an SSE response from an LLM connector

ap proxy --connection cxn_openai curl -N \
  https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"gpt-4o","stream":true,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'

The -N (--no-buffer) is curl’s, not ours — it disables curl’s own line buffering so the tokens print as they arrive.

Run several AuthProxy clones on one machine

Each clone (~/src/authproxy1, ~/src/authproxy2, …) needs its own port pool so they don’t collide. The pool lives in each clone’s .env (gitignored) — see .env.example for the slot table. The AUTHPROXY_SIGNING_PROXY_PORT slot picks the listen port for ap signing-proxy:

Clone	AUTHPROXY_SIGNING_PROXY_PORT
authproxy1	8888 (default)
authproxy2	8898
authproxy3	8908
authproxyN	8888 + (N−1)·10

A single shared ~/.authproxy.yaml picks up whichever clone you ran ap from by reading the env var loaded from that clone’s .env:

signing_proxy:
  port:
    env_var: AUTHPROXY_SIGNING_PROXY_PORT
    default: "8888"

cd ~/src/authproxy3 && ap signing-proxy --proxyTo=api   # listens on 8908
cd ~/src/authproxy1 && ap signing-proxy --proxyTo=api   # listens on 8888
ap signing-proxy --proxyTo=api --port 9000              # --port always wins

The matching AUTHPROXY_HOST_APP_INITIATE_SESSION_URL in each .env is templated http://127.0.0.1:${AUTHPROXY_SIGNING_PROXY_PORT}/login-redirect, so the server’s session-initiation URL automatically matches the port the local signing-proxy listens on.

See also

• Local development — the surrounding source and UI workflow.
• AGENTS.md — Running locally — repository-specific contributor guidance.
• Telemetry — what shows up in traces/metrics when these commands fire requests through the server.