Authentication

The SDK uses your Prodloop API key for authentication automatically.

Initialize with your key:

ProdloopClient(api_key="sk_live_...")

Environment variable pattern

export PRODLOOP_API_KEY="sk_live_..."

import os
from prodloop import ProdloopClient

client = ProdloopClient(api_key=os.environ["PRODLOOP_API_KEY"])

Bot Provider Credentials

Prodloop API authentication is separate from bot provider credentials.

For self_simulation, bot provider credentials live on the Prodloop backend. Your SDK code sends only the model route and options.

For user_orchestrated, bot provider credentials stay in your local environment because your process runs the bot. Currently document-supported local bot routes are Vertex AI (vertex_ai/...) and Azure OpenAI (azure/...). Configure Vertex ADC/service-account variables or Azure endpoint/API version/API key locally. Do not send these credentials to Prodloop.