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# Set the environment's auth mode

> Requires `organization:update`. The mode is per environment so a developer can evaluate hosted in test while production stays federated.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json patch /v1/organization/environments/{id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: UserKit API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    The HTTP surface of UserKit.


    Two planes share one API. The **staff plane** is what a human uses in the
    panel: users, organizations, roles, members, keys. The **customer plane** is
    what a developer's own product uses: contacts, identities, hosted or
    federated sign-in.


    Every error answers the same envelope — `{"error": {"code", "message"}}`.
    The `code` is a stable contract to branch on; the `message` is for a person
    and may change.
servers:
  - url: '{baseUrl}'
    description: The API host.
    variables:
      baseUrl:
        default: https://api.userkit.dev
        description: Base URL of the API, no trailing slash.
security:
  - sessionToken: []
tags:
  - name: Authentication
    description: >-
      Public sign-up, sign-in, two-factor and password recovery for staff
      accounts.
  - name: Session
    description: >-
      The active session: who the caller is, which organization they are in, and
      signing out.
  - name: Account
    description: The caller's own account — profile, password, sessions, avatar.
  - name: Two-factor
    description: >-
      TOTP setup, activation and recovery codes. Returns 501 when two-factor is
      unavailable on the server.
  - name: Organizations
    description: The organizations a user belongs to, and the active one.
  - name: Environments
    description: >-
      The live and test environments seeded with every organization, and their
      identity settings.
  - name: Members
    description: Memberships and invitations.
  - name: Roles
    description: Roles and the permission catalogue they draw from.
  - name: API keys
    description: Secret keys (`uk_sk_…`) and publishable keys (`uk_pk_…`).
  - name: Contacts (panel)
    description: >-
      The staff view of the customer plane. Reads take `?environment=` as an
      explicit view parameter.
  - name: Contacts (server)
    description: >-
      The machine surface, authenticated by an API key. The environment is the
      key's environment and cannot be named by the caller.
  - name: Customer plane
    description: >-
      Called from the developer's own pages with a publishable key: boot, magic
      link, and the contact's own session.
  - name: Hosted auth
    description: >-
      Sign-up, sign-in, verification and recovery for contacts, when UserKit
      owns the account.
  - name: System
    description: Health and the internal job callback.
paths:
  /v1/organization/environments/{id}:
    patch:
      tags:
        - Environments
      summary: Set the environment's auth mode
      description: >-
        Requires `organization:update`. The mode is per environment so a
        developer can evaluate hosted in test while production stays federated.
      operationId: updateEnvironment
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/OrganizationHeader'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/EnvironmentId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              description: >-
                Either field alone, or both. A waitlist may only be held where
                UserKit owns the sign-in.
              properties:
                auth_mode:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                    - hosted
                    - federated
                waitlist_mode:
                  type: boolean
                  description: >-
                    Hold a line instead of opening the door: sign-ups join the
                    queue, and no session is minted for anybody still in it — by
                    any route, social included.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Updated.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  environment:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Environment'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  parameters:
    OrganizationHeader:
      name: X-Organization-Id
      in: header
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
      description: >-
        The organization the caller is acting on — the `org_…` code that appears
        in the panel URL. It *identifies*; the membership JOIN is what
        *authorizes*, so a forged code reads nothing. Absent, the session's
        default organization answers.
    EnvironmentId:
      name: id
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        format: uuid
      description: The environment's id.
  schemas:
    Environment:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        kind:
          type: string
          enum:
            - live
            - test
        auth_mode:
          type: string
          enum:
            - hosted
            - federated
        waitlist_mode:
          type: boolean
          description: >-
            Whether this environment is holding a line instead of opening the
            door.
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
    Error:
      type: object
      description: Every error in this API answers this envelope.
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              description: Stable. Branch on this.
            message:
              type: string
              description: For a person. May change.
          required:
            - code
            - message
      required:
        - error
      example:
        error:
          code: forbidden
          message: your role does not allow this action
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: '`invalid_request` — the body or a parameter is malformed.'
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: >-
        `unauthorized` — missing, malformed or expired credential. A well-formed
        credential from the wrong family says so: "this endpoint expects a staff
        session token, not an organization API key".
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Forbidden:
      description: '`forbidden` — your role does not allow this action.'
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: >-
        `not_found`. Also the answer for a resource that exists in another
        organization or environment — the 404 never reveals which.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    sessionToken:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        A staff session token, `uk_st_…`. Minted by sign-up, sign-in or the
        two-factor exchange.

````