Credential Recipe Research

A recipe is only as good as the documentation it came from. This is a procedure, not guidance: execute every step with the research tool and keep only findings you can point to on a fetched page. Guessed URLs are how users end up on the wrong page with a key that can't be verified.

Inputs: the service name and the API host(s) the workflow's nodes call.

1. Auth scheme (template)

Fetch the provider's authentication docs — research(action="web-search") with "<service> API authentication", then fetch-url the best docs hit. Record the scheme EXACTLY as documented: header name, prefix word, casing (Authorization: Key {{api_key}} vs Bearer {{api_key}} vs a custom header like xi-api-key). If the documented auth is basic, digest, or OAuth, stop: that is not expressible as a template — use the matching generic type instead (see the workflow-builder skill's credential ladder).