Live API and Demos

Production base URL: https://parmana-api-real.vercel.app. Checked against the code and the deployment on 2026-10-02.

No key for production? This page is about the production deployment, which needs a key issued by its operator. To try Parmana with no key, run a local server with the Quickstart.

Goal

Call the real, running production deployment directly, no local setup, no mocked responses. It runs the same @parmana/api code as the sandbox, with real connectors and real credentials, so it is open only to callers its operator has issued a key.

What this deployment is, and isn’t

Is: a real authorization engine. Submit a Business Transaction, it evaluates the named policy against your declared signals, produces a real, deterministic, Ed25519-signed decision (approve/reject), and persists it durably. Rejections complete end to end, signed, durable, retrievable. Genuinely useful for demoing policy authoring, signal binding, guardrails correctly declining a request, cryptographic proof of a decision, independent offline verification, and audit trails. paytm:refund is a real, wired connector on this deployment: PAYTM_CONNECTOR_URL/PAYTM_CONNECTOR_SHARED_SECRET point at a real, separately deployed example-agent service, which itself calls Paytm’s staging API. An approved paytm:refund request reaches Paytm’s real staging API and returns a real result, with a full cross-service audit trail correlated by businessTransactionId. Full runbook: End to end: agent to Parmana to Paytm. token, GitHub App credentials or Slack bot token is configured, and it isn’t running in test mode either. An approved request for one of these answers 503 CONNECTOR_NOT_REGISTERED, which is how to check it today. This mirrors a real, documented finding in this codebase (see Limitations and the vendor-payment policy’s own history) that a capability should not be wired to a connector until its signals are independently verified, not merely caller-declared. Concretely: an approved request for hubspot:deal-update, github:pr-merge, slack:post-message and the other HubSpot and GitHub actions is refused with a 503 (code CONNECTOR_NOT_REGISTERED) before release, and nothing runs, since their credentials aren’t configured on this deployment. A capability registered as an external connector is released to its own endpoint. A denied decision never reaches that stage (policy rejection happens before dispatch), so it always completes cleanly regardless of capability. Plan demos around that: “the system correctly declines” is a complete, real demo for any capability; “money/data actually moves” is real and demonstrable specifically for paytm:refund as of this correction, not yet for HubSpot/GitHub without adding real credentials.

Authentication

Bearer token in the Authorization header. Production has no public or demo key: every per caller, scoped to the capabilities it needs (for example paytm-refund-agent, allowed only paytm:refund). To try requests without a key of your own, run a local server with the Quickstart. Raw key values are shown once in a terminal and never committed to the repo; only their hashes live in the deployment’s environment configuration. To mint a key for an agent, scoped to its capabilities:

npx tsx scripts/generate-api-key.ts \
  --caller-id my-agent \
  --allowed-capabilities "paytm:refund" \
  --credential-holder-type SERVICE

This prints the raw key once and a config entry to add to the deployment’s caller key list, then requires a redeploy to take effect. Never grant "*" to an agent. See Authentication for the full caller auth model, and Credentials: maker, checker and approver for the exact commands. Principal scoping is a separate check from capability scoping: a key with no explicit principal grant may only assert authority.principalId equal to its own caller id. Simplest path: set authority.principalId to your own caller id.

The shape of a request

{
  "businessTransactionId": "<a real UUID v4>",
  "metadata": { "businessTransactionId": "<same UUID>" },
  "authority": {
    "authorityId": "authority-demo",
    "authorityType": "SERVICE",
    "principalId": "my-agent",
    "issuedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "authorization": {
    "authorizationId": "auth-demo",
    "authorityId": "authority-demo",
    "purpose": "human-readable reason",
    "issuedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "intent": {
    "intentId": "intent-demo",
    "authorizationId": "auth-demo",
    "action": "paytm:refund",
    "target": "paytm://orders/order-123",
    "parameters": { "orderId": "order-123", "amount": 50 },
    "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "policy": {
    "name": "customer-refund",
    "version": "1.2.0",
    "schemaVersion": "1.0.0"
  },
  "signals": {
    "refundEligible": true,
    "managerApproved": true,
    "fraudCheckPassed": true,
    "refundAmount": 50,
    "approvalArtifact": {
      "payload": { "...": "..." },
      "signature": { "...": "..." }
    }
  },
  "status": "RECEIVED",
  "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}

Hard requirements, all fail-closed with a clear 400/403 if wrong:

Every request needs a signed human approval in signals.approvalArtifact, for this action and resource (and amount, where the policy names one), with the policy’s approval signal set true. managerApproved: true without it is refused. See Human approval.
businessTransactionId must be a real UUID, not a slug.
authority.authorityType must be one of USER, ROLE, SERVICE, ORGANIZATION. An autonomous agent maps to SERVICE ("AGENT" is not a valid value, a real mistake made and caught while building this deployment).
policy.name/policy.version must match a real, deployed policy, the caller names the policy explicitly, it is not inferred from intent.action.
Every fact a policy’s rules reference must appear in signals. A fact declared as boundSignals is additionally cross-checked against the real intent field it’s bound to, or the whole request is rejected before Policy Engine ever runs.

Available policies

No AI agent action is authorized without a signed human approval, reads included. Every current policy needs one; the column on the right names the signal and what the approval must cover. Older versions that approved without a person (such as vendor-payment@2.0.0 or github-pr-read@1.0.0) stay in the repository as history and are refused when they load. See Human approval.

Policy	What it authorizes	Signed approval needed
`access-control@1.1.0`	Access via auth, MFA, device trust and session risk	`humanApproved`, for `target`
`agent-vendor-payment@1.1.0`	An autonomous agent paying a vendor, within limits	`humanApproved`, for `target`, up to `parameters.amount`
`api-key-issuance@1.1.0`	Issuing a new API key	`humanApproved`, for `target`
`connector-capability@1.1.0`	Capability based connector authorization (reference)	`humanApproved`, for `target`
`customer-refund@1.2.0`	Customer refunds (`paytm:refund`)	`managerApproved`, for the order, up to the amount
`database-change@3.1.0`	Production DB changes	`humanApproved`, for `target`
`expense-reimbursement@1.1.0`	Employee expense reimbursement, the worked example below	`humanApproved`, for `target`, up to `parameters.amount`
`github-pr-approval@1.1.0`	A pull request merge (`github:pr-merge`)	`mergeApproved`, for the pull request
`github-pr-read@1.1.0`	Reading a pull request’s state (`github:pr-fetch`)	`readApproved`, for the pull request
`hubspot-deal-read@1.0.0`	Reading a HubSpot deal (`hubspot:deal-fetch`)	`readApproved`, for the deal
`hubspot-deal-update@1.1.0`	HubSpot deal stage and amount updates	`dealUpdateApproved`, for the deal
`llm-tool-call@1.1.0`	A tool call an AI makes	`humanApproval`, for the tool
`production-deployment@1.1.0`	Production deployments	`humanApproved`, for `target`
`rag-document-access@1.1.0`	Enterprise document retrieval	`humanApproved`, for `target`
`slack-post-message@1.1.0`	Posting a Slack message (`slack:post-message`)	`postApproved`, for the channel
`vendor-payment@2.1.0`	Vendor payments	`humanApproved`, for `target`, up to `parameters.amount`

Full signal schemas for every policy: each policy file under policies/<name>/<version>/policy.json (signalsSchema).

Writing a new policy

A policy is one JSON file: policies/<policyId>/<version>/policy.json. Four condition shapes (leaf comparison, all, any, always), a fixed operator set (eq, neq, gt, gte, lt, lte, between, in, not_in, contains, not_contains, contains_all, contains_any, starts_with, ends_with, matches, exists, not_exists, is_true, is_false, is_null, is_not_null, length_eq, length_gt, length_gte, length_lt, length_lte, type_is), and one rule that’s easy to miss: every fact your rules reference must appear in either boundSignals or unboundSignalReasons, or the policy fails to load at all, no silent, unacknowledged gaps allowed. The expense-reimbursement@1.1.0 policy above is a real, worked example of this, full schema, the exact validation rule that would reject a badly-formed policy, and how a new one goes live (proposed and approved through policy governance, no deploy) are in Write your first policy and Policy lifecycle and approvals.

Endpoints

Method & path	Auth	What it does
`GET /health` / `GET /ready`	none	Liveness / readiness
`POST /execute`	required	Submit a Business Transaction; `200` returns the signed Trust Record of the executed action
`GET /transactions`	required	List your own submitted transactions
`GET /refusal/:businessTransactionId`	required	The signed Refusal Record for a rejected transaction
`POST /refusal/verify`	none	Independently verify a Refusal Record’s signature
`POST /audit/verify`	none	Verify a signed caller-audit event
`GET /keys/:keyId`	none	Fetch a public signing key (PEM + JWK where supported)
`GET /.well-known/jwks.json`	none	The public keys this deployment signs with (under AWS KMS: `default` and the current verification key)
`GET /trust-records/:businessTransactionId`	required	The full signed Execution Trust Record of an executed action

Machine-readable spec: GET /openapi.yaml or the REST API reference.

Verifying a result independently

An executed action has a Trust Record (GET /trust-records/:businessTransactionId); a refused one has a Refusal Record (GET /refusal/:businessTransactionId). Verify a Trust Record with zero further server calls using verifyExecutionTrustRecordOffline (TypeScript) or verify_execution_trust_record_offline (Python) and the key from GET /keys/default, and a Refusal Record with POST /refusal/verify (server side, but cryptographic and unauthenticated). See Verify a trust record independently for the fully offline path, and examples/tutorials/107-offline-verification/ through 110-hybrid-signature-downgrade-protection/ for runnable, tested demonstrations of every scenario, including a hybrid (Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65) record and a downgrade-attack proof.

Write your first policy

A slower, more conceptual walkthrough of policy authoring than the reference above.

Verify a trust record independently

The fully offline verification path, in depth.

Connect an external agent

How an AI agent authenticates, sends a governed request, and handles APPROVED/REJECTED, with the real parmana-phinite-agent integration as the worked example.

Build with Parmana

Verify and audit

Worked examples

Live API and Demos

Goal

What this deployment is, and isn’t

Authentication

The shape of a request

Available policies

Writing a new policy

Endpoints

Verifying a result independently

Next

Write your first policy

Verify a trust record independently

Connect an external agent

​Goal

​What this deployment is, and isn’t

​Authentication

​The shape of a request

​Available policies

​Writing a new policy

​Endpoints

​Verifying a result independently

​Next

Write your first policy

Verify a trust record independently

Connect an external agent

Goal

What this deployment is, and isn’t

Authentication

The shape of a request

Available policies

Writing a new policy

Endpoints

Verifying a result independently

Next