Projects and PDPs

Projects are isolated policy environments within your organization. Each project has its dedicated Decision Node, the Policy Decision Point (PDP) that evaluates authorization requests against your policies in real-time.

Architecture

┌─────────────┐     ┌─────────┐     ┌─────────────┐
│  Your App / │────>│   PDP   │────>│   Denied    │
│  Agent      │<────│         │<────│  Platform   │
└─────────────┘     └─────────┘     └─────────────┘
    Request           Evaluate       Pull Policies
    Response          Decision

The PDP:

1. Pulls policies from your project as OPA bundles
2. Receives authorization requests from your agents / applications
3. Evaluates requests against loaded policies
4. Returns allow/deny decisions with context
5. Logs decisions for monitoring and audit

Creating a Project

1. Go to Settings → Projects
2. Click Create Project and enter a name

Your project will be created with:

• A unique Decision Node UUID
• A pre-shared API key for authentication
• An empty policy library

Secrets

API Keys

API keys authenticate authorization requests scoped to this project.

1. Go to Settings → Secrets
2. Go to the API Keys section
3. Click Reveal Key to see it (dnd_pk_*)

Admin API Tokens

API tokens authenticate admin operations requests scoped to this project.

1. Go to Settings → Secrets
2. Go to the API Tokens section
3. Click Create Token and give it a name and (optional) expiration
4. Copy the token (dnd_sk_*) and store it securely — it's only shown once

Switching Projects

The current project is shown in the top navigation. Click the project name to switch — all dashboard views (Policies, Playground, Logs) will update to the selected project.