> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://spreecommerce.org/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Discover the authorization server

> RFC 9728. A client given a URL it cannot reach unauthenticated reads
this to learn which authorization server guards it and which
permissions that server accepts.

Unauthenticated by design: a client has to read it before it holds
anything.




## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/admin.yaml get /api/v3/oauth/protected-resource/{resource_key}
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Admin API
  contact:
    name: Spree Commerce
    url: https://spreecommerce.org
    email: hello@spreecommerce.org
  description: >
    Spree Admin API v3 - Administrative API for managing products, orders, and
    store settings.


    ## Authentication


    The Admin API requires a secret API key passed in the `x-spree-api-key`
    header.

    Secret API keys can be generated in the Spree admin dashboard.


    ## Response Format


    All responses are JSON. List endpoints return paginated responses with
    `data` and `meta` keys.

    Single resource endpoints return a flat JSON object.


    ## Resource IDs


    Every resource is identified by an opaque string ID (e.g. `prod_86Rf07xd4z`,

    `variant_k5nR8xLq`, `or_UkLWZg9DAJ`). Use these IDs everywhere — URL paths,

    request bodies, and Ransack filters all accept them directly.


    ## Error Handling


    Errors return a consistent format:

    ```json

    {
      "error": {
        "code": "validation_error",
        "message": "Validation failed",
        "details": { "name": ["can't be blank"] }
      }
    }

    ```
  version: v3
servers:
  - url: http://{defaultHost}
    variables:
      defaultHost:
        default: localhost:3000
security: []
tags:
  - name: Authentication
    description: Admin user login, logout, token refresh, and current user profile
  - name: Allowed Origins
    description: CORS allowlist for storefront and admin client origins
  - name: API Keys
    description: Secret and publishable API keys
  - name: Categories
    description: >-
      Hierarchical product categories — tree management, repositioning, and
      product assignments
  - name: Channels
    description: >-
      Sales channels, product publication across channels, and per-channel order
      routing rules
  - name: Custom Fields
    description: >-
      Custom field definitions for products, variants, customers, and other
      resources
  - name: Customer Groups
    description: >-
      Customer groups for segmenting customers (e.g. wholesale, VIP) used by
      pricing and promotions
  - name: Customers
    description: Customer profiles, addresses, credit cards, and store credits
  - name: Email Templates
    description: >-
      Customer email templates, the email layout and shared partials: drafts,
      previews, publishing and history
  - name: Exports
    description: Async CSV exports of admin resources
  - name: Files
    description: Uploading the files that product media, imports, logos and documents use
  - name: Fulfillments
    description: Order fulfillments — shipments, fulfill, cancel, resume, split
  - name: Gift Cards
    description: Gift cards and gift card batches
  - name: Imports
    description: >-
      Async CSV imports of admin resources, with per-row status and failed-row
      retry
  - name: Markets
    description: >-
      Markets — geographic groupings of countries used for pricing, tax, and
      fulfillment rules
  - name: Option Types
    description: >-
      Option types and option values used to build product variants (e.g. Size,
      Color)
  - name: Orders
    description: Orders, order items, applied gift cards, and applied store credits
  - name: Payment Methods
    description: Configured payment providers and their available types
  - name: Payments
    description: Order payments — list, capture, void
  - name: Pricing
    description: >-
      Prices and price lists for currency-, market-, and customer-group-specific
      pricing
  - name: Products
    description: >-
      Products, taxons/categories, product custom field values, and bulk product
      operations
  - name: Policies
    description: The store's legal documents — terms of service, privacy, returns, shipping
  - name: Reasons
    description: >-
      Merchant-owned vocabularies for why a return, claim, refund, cancellation
      or tax exemption happened
  - name: Promotions
    description: Promotions, promotion rules, promotion actions, and coupon codes
  - name: Refunds
    description: Order refunds
  - name: Settings
    description: Store-level settings — store profile, tags, and configuration
  - name: Staff
    description: Admin users, roles, and invitations to the store
  - name: Stock Locations
    description: Warehouses and physical fulfillment locations
  - name: Store Credits
    description: Prepaid customer balances across all customers, and each balance's ledger
  - name: Variants
    description: >-
      Product variants — the individual SKUs (size/color combinations) sold
      under a product
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Webhook endpoints and webhook delivery history
paths:
  /api/v3/oauth/protected-resource/{resource_key}:
    parameters:
      - name: resource_key
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Which protected surface, e.g. `mcp`
        schema:
          type: string
    get:
      tags:
        - OAuth
      summary: Discover the authorization server
      description: |
        RFC 9728. A client given a URL it cannot reach unauthenticated reads
        this to learn which authorization server guards it and which
        permissions that server accepts.

        Unauthenticated by design: a client has to read it before it holds
        anything.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: metadata
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                resource: http://www.example.com/api/v3/admin/mcp
                authorization_servers:
                  - http://www.example.com
                scopes_supported:
                  - read_dashboard
                  - read_reports
                  - write_reports
                  - read_orders
                  - write_orders
                  - read_payments
                  - write_payments
                  - read_fulfillments
                  - write_fulfillments
                  - read_refunds
                  - write_refunds
                  - read_products
                  - write_products
                  - read_product_types
                  - write_product_types
                  - read_publishing
                  - write_publishing
                  - read_media
                  - write_media
                  - read_categories
                  - write_categories
                  - read_collections
                  - write_collections
                  - read_stock
                  - write_stock
                  - read_purchasing
                  - write_purchasing
                  - read_customers
                  - write_customers
                  - read_sellers
                  - write_sellers
                  - read_commissions
                  - write_commissions
                  - read_payouts
                  - write_payouts
                  - read_gift_cards
                  - write_gift_cards
                  - read_store_credits
                  - write_store_credits
                  - read_promotions
                  - write_promotions
                  - read_settings
                  - write_settings
                  - read_delivery_methods
                  - write_delivery_methods
                  - read_package_types
                  - write_package_types
                  - read_email_templates
                  - write_email_templates
                bearer_methods_supported:
                  - header
                resource_documentation: https://spreecommerce.org/docs/developer/mcp/overview
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OauthProtectedResource'
        '404':
          description: no such protected surface
      x-codeSamples:
        - lang: javascript
          label: Spree Admin SDK
          source: >-
            import { createAdminClient } from '@spree/admin-sdk'


            const client = createAdminClient({
              baseUrl: 'https://your-store.com',
              secretKey: 'sk_xxx',
            })


            const response = await
            fetch('https://your-store.com/api/v3/oauth/protected-resource/admin')

            const metadata = await response.json()
        - lang: bash
          label: Spree CLI
          source: spree api get /api/v3/oauth/protected-resource/{resource_key}
components:
  schemas:
    OauthProtectedResource:
      type: object
      properties:
        resource:
          type: string
        authorization_servers:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        scopes_supported:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        bearer_methods_supported:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        resource_documentation:
          type: string
      required:
        - resource
        - authorization_servers
        - scopes_supported
        - bearer_methods_supported
        - resource_documentation
      x-typelizer: true

````

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