Agora Real Estate Authentication

generated: '2026-09-12'
method: probed
source: >-
  https://auth.agorareal.com/.well-known/openid-configuration and
  /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (both HTTP 200, 2026-09-12), plus live header and error
  observation on https://websiteapi.agorareal.com/wp-json and the tenant client-platform hosts.
summary: >-
  Agora runs three distinct authentication surfaces and documents none of them for developers. The
  public website content API is anonymous for reads and uses stock WordPress credentials for writes.
  The Cortex AI product authenticates through a full OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect authorization server
  on Agora's own domain. The tenant client platform authenticates through AWS Cognito behind a
  session the API gateway will not route without.
surfaces:
- name: Agora Website Content API
  api: agora-real-estate:agora-website-content-api
  base_url: https://websiteapi.agorareal.com/wp-json
  anonymous_read: true
  note: >-
    Every sampled GET on agora/v1 and the public wp/v2 read routes returned 200 with real data and no
    credential. Write and privileged routes return 401 — observed {"code":"rest_not_logged_in"} on
    /wp/v2/users/me and {"code":"rest_forbidden"} on /wp/v2/settings.
  schemes:
  - type: apiKey
    in: header
    name: X-WP-Nonce
    description: >-
      WordPress cookie-authentication nonce. Not documented by Agora; advertised by the API itself in
      the Access-Control-Allow-Headers response header (Authorization, X-WP-Nonce,
      Content-Disposition, Content-MD5, Content-Type).
    evidence: https://websiteapi.agorareal.com/wp-json/agora/v1/get-categories
  - type: http
    scheme: basic
    description: >-
      WordPress application passwords over HTTP Basic in the Authorization header — the route index
      declares /wp/v2/users/{user_id}/application-passwords, so the feature is enabled on this
      install. Applies to write routes only.
    evidence: https://websiteapi.agorareal.com/wp-json
- name: Agora Authorization Server (Cortex)
  api: agora-real-estate:agora-authorization-server
  base_url: https://auth.agorareal.com
  schemes:
  - type: openIdConnect
    openIdConnectUrl: https://auth.agorareal.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
    issuer: https://auth.agorareal.com
    description: >-
      OpenID Connect discovery served anonymously. RS256 ID tokens, public subject type, userinfo at
      /oauth2/userinfo, introspection at /oauth2/introspection, JWKS at /oauth2/jwks.
    evidence: https://auth.agorareal.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: oauth2
    flows:
      authorizationCode:
        authorizationUrl: https://auth.agorareal.com/oauth2/authorize
        tokenUrl: https://auth.agorareal.com/oauth2/token
        refreshUrl: https://auth.agorareal.com/oauth2/token
        scopes:
          openid: OpenID Connect authentication
          profile: Basic profile claims
          email: Email address claim
          offline_access: Refresh-token issuance
      clientCredentials:
        tokenUrl: https://auth.agorareal.com/oauth2/token
        scopes: {}
      deviceCode:
        deviceAuthorizationUrl: https://auth.agorareal.com/oauth2/device_authorization
        tokenUrl: https://auth.agorareal.com/oauth2/token
        scopes: {}
    pkce:
      required_by_metadata: false
      code_challenge_methods_supported:
      - S256
    token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported:
    - none
    - client_secret_basic
    - client_secret_post
    description: >-
      RFC 8414 authorization-server metadata served anonymously. The deviceCode flow is not an
      OpenAPI-standard flow key and is recorded here as declared by the provider
      (urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:device_code). client_credentials appears in the OIDC
      discovery document's grant_types_supported but not in the RFC 8414 document — recorded as the
      provider publishes it, not reconciled.
    evidence: https://auth.agorareal.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
  deployment_note: >-
    The authorization server is a WorkOS AuthKit instance served on Agora's own domain — the Cortex
    sign-in host cortex.agorareal.com 303s to https://auth.agorareal.com/?client_id=client_01K8C8...
    with a redirect_uri back to /auth/callback. Public client registration is not offered.
- name: Agora Client Platform API
  api: agora-real-estate:agora-client-platform-api
  base_url: https://{tenant}.acp.agorareal.com/api
  schemes: []
  note: >-
    No scheme can be established from the outside. Every anonymous request to /api and /api/* on the
    demo tenant and on sampled live tenants returned nginx 502 with no WWW-Authenticate challenge.
    The client-platform bundle calls /api/admin/cognito/* routes, so AWS Cognito is the identity
    provider, but Agora publishes no authentication documentation for this API.
gaps:
- No developer-facing authentication documentation exists on agorareal.com.
- No API-key issuance, client registration or token guide is published for any surface.
- >-
    No /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource is served on any host, so no resource server advertises
    which authorization server protects it.