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title: "Public access and authentication"
description: "No credentials are needed for the public, read-only journal interfaces."
canonical: https://home.ashwingopalsamy.in/auth/
last_updated: 2026-10-04
revision: ae27c00ff018b23a3983e5a7ada165b3f0a0d14d742e4eff2d147872e0206d53
language: en
---

# Public access and authentication

## Discover
Start at [llms.txt](/llms.txt), [OpenAPI](/openapi.json) or [the developer guide](/developers/). All advertised journal reads are public. This document is a walkthrough, not a claim of conformance to WorkOS agent_auth.

## Pick a method
Use an ordinary HTTP GET, a Markdown representation or the /mcp Streamable HTTP endpoint. No Authorization header is required. OpenAPI declares public operations with an empty security requirement.

## Register
Registration does not apply: there are no user accounts or self-serve API keys for public reads.

## Claim
Claiming an identity does not apply. No identity_endpoint or claim endpoint is offered. identity_assertion, service_auth and id-jag flows are not implemented.

## Exchange
There is no token exchange, access_token or authorization server. Do not invent a token or reuse a credential from a sibling site.

## Use credential
No credential is needed. Public access does not authorize private material, mutations, contact requests or deployment. The integration has no protected delegated workflow. An agent’s claimed user-agent or identity grants no extra authority.

## Errors
Invalid requests return typed problems; absent records return 404. Rate limits return 429 and Retry-After. No WWW-Authenticate OAuth discovery challenge is needed on keyless reads. A 503 indicates unavailable infrastructure, not successful onboarding. [Developer errors](/developers/#errors-and-caching).

## Revocation
There is no credential or session to revoke. Stop issuing requests to stop using this public interface. Publication changes and corrections require owner review; the public API cannot perform them.

## Source

Review: not independently reviewed. Last updated: 2026-10-04.
Freshness comes from source/correction dates; month-only sources use their publication date as a disclosed release-date fallback. Work and payment dates are separate.

[Canonical page](https://home.ashwingopalsamy.in/auth/) · [Developer guide](/developers/) · [Navigation](/llms.txt)