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Create Your First Project in Shift-Left API
Create a project — the workspace holding your endpoints, tests, environments, and results. Covers naming, scoping decisions, and what to do immediately after.
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Project Management
Project Management documentation for Shift-Left API: 8 guides, including Create Your First Project in Shift-Left API; Project Operations: Import API Definitions; Managing Projects and Endpoints. Browse the articles below, or use search to jump to a specific task.
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Project Operations: Import API Definitions
Import an OpenAPI, WSDL, or GraphQL definition into your project by file upload or URL, with Auto-Detect, then confirm the endpoints that were discovered.
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Managing Projects and Endpoints
Navigate the project → feature → endpoint tree in the sidebar: search and filter projects, open features, select endpoints, and reach the test workflow.
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Project Settings: Environments and Auth
Set base URLs per environment, authentication profiles, default headers, change detection, and AI generation options — the settings that make a project run.
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Authentication Profiles: Choose and Configure a Method
Most APIs refuse a request that does not prove who is calling. In Shift-Left API you describe how to prove it once, in an authentication profile, and every test, pack, workflow and performance run in the project uses it.
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OAuth 2.0 Sign-In: Browser and Device Code
Many APIs sit behind an identity provider such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Auth0, Keycloak or Google, and only accept a token issued to a signed-in user. You cannot get that token with a client ID and secret alone.
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Sign In With Steps: Login, One-Time Code, Token and Refresh
Some APIs sign you in with a sequence of calls they designed themselves. A typical example: post a username and password, receive a one-time code by SMS or email, post the code back, and receive a bearer token plus a refresh token.
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Postman Collection Import
Import a Postman collection (v2.0 or v2.1) into a project: requests become endpoints and tests, pm.test assertions are converted, and anything that needs review is flagged.
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