canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/swaggerhub.appgallop/authentication-api

# Appgallop Authentication API

Used to Authenticate. The API exposes 1 endpoints.

## For AI agents

Programmatically generate token. Covers 1 operations.

## Scope

Does not handle payments, communications, or crm - use for identity and authentication only.

## Capabilities

- Generate token
- Manage identity auth data programmatically
- Integrate Authentication API into automated workflows
- Query and filter Authentication API records by parameters
- Monitor Authentication API operational status and events

## Use cases

### Identity and Authentication Operations

Use the Authentication API to perform identity auth operations programmatically. The API provides 1 endpoints covering core functionality including generate token.

Example prompt: Call POST /authenticate to generate token

### Data Retrieval and Monitoring

Query Authentication API resources on a schedule to track changes, generate alerts, or feed downstream dashboards. Agents poll relevant endpoints, compare against previous state, and trigger actions when thresholds are crossed.

Example prompt: Poll the primary Authentication API endpoint, compare response to last known state, and alert if changed

### AI Agent Integration via Jentic

AI agents discover and call Authentication API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle none tokens manually.

Example prompt: Search Jentic for 'generate token', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| POST | /authenticate | Generate token |

## Key resources

- **users** — Users can use this API to authenticate themselves on appGallop API platform.

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the Authentication API by hand means formatting the authenticate POST against the api.appgallop.com host to mint a token yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the Authentication API from the API Directory, and your agent calls it without that hand-wiring.
- **Permission scoping:** The credentials for this API travel in the request body, not the URL path, so scope by operation: limit the agent to the operations it needs, such as generating a token, and leave everything else out. You choose the operations it may call, so it does only what you allow.
- **Credential handling:** This authenticate endpoint declares no authentication itself, so there is no key to manage; any token it returns is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, never entering the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'generate an access token', and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **Auth0** — Alternative identity auth API
- **Okta** — Alternative identity auth API

## FAQ

### What authentication does the Authentication API use?

The Authentication API uses no authentication. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.

### Can I generate token with the Authentication API?

Yes. Use the POST /authenticate endpoint. The API returns structured JSON responses that agents can parse and act on directly.

### What are the rate limits for the Authentication API?

Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.

### How do I generate token through Jentic?

Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'generate token'. Jentic returns the matching Authentication API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.

### How many endpoints does the Authentication API have?

The Authentication API exposes 1 endpoints covering users operations.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Authentication API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which operations and credentials the agent may use. This API scopes by operation rather than by URL path, since its credentials travel in the request body, so you can restrict the agent to just the operations it needs, such as POST /authenticate to generate a token, and leave every other call out of reach. The agent does only what you allow.