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Basecut supports multiple authentication methods for local development and CI/CD environments.

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Interactive Login

The easiest way to authenticate locally is using the login command: 
basecut login
This will:
  1. Generate a device code
  2. Open your browser for authorization
  3. Save an API key locally to ~/.basecut/credentials

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API Keys

For CI/CD or non-interactive environments, use an API key via environment variables: 
export BASECUT_API_KEY=bc_live_xxx

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Profiles

Manage multiple environments using profiles: 
# Login to a specific profile
basecut login --profile production

# Use a specific profile
basecut snapshot create --config basecut.yml --name prod-seed --source "$BASECUT_DATABASE_URL" --profile production

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Credentials Location

Credentials are stored in ~/.basecut/credentials.