Glossary

Project

The unit an account's resources belong to — every key has one home project, and a call can reach a different project only if the caller is a master key naming it directly, or an app key holding an explicit grant on it. See projects and scoping.

Key (master / app)

An shb_... credential with a tier: master (full account authority, mints and revokes other keys) or app (scoped to a subset of page/serve/link/base, minted with a fixed apps list at creation time). See keys.

Scope

What an app key's apps list, or an OAuth client's home project, allows a given call to do — checked on every route, independent of whether the credential is a key or a sherlock bearer token. A call outside scope gets 403 insufficient_scope. See keys, API reference.

Grant

Per-project, per-key access to somewhere other than a key's home project — read (list/view) or full (create/update/delete), set with project_grant_key and revoked with project_revoke_grant. A grant on one project says nothing about any other. See projects and scoping.

Public id

The random, permanent 12-character identifier (^[a-z2-7]{12}$) every published page and uploaded file gets at creation — what actually appears in its p.shebang.pro/f.shebang.pro URL, assigned once and never changed by renaming the resource's title or slug. See public ids and urls.

Access mode

The private/password/allow_list/public level every page, file, and link carries, enforced by sherlink regardless of which of the three public hosts serves it. See access modes.

sherlock

shebang's identity provider — the account behind the dashboard, the API keys, and (as an OAuth 2.1/OIDC provider) sign-in for apps built on shebang. See sherlock.

sherpage

Publishes a bundle of static files to a permanent p.shebang.pro address, no build step or deploy pipeline. See sherpage.

sherserve

Uploads a single file — image, video, document, or archive — to a permanent f.shebang.pro address. See sherserve.

sherlink

The short-link and access-policy layer (sl.shebang.pro) behind every sherpage page and sherserve object — the single owner of access level, password, expiry, and view budget for all three public hosts. See sherlink.

sherbase

shebang's database service — a dedicated Postgres database and role per slug, reachable by direct connection or through a Supabase-shaped Data API. See sherbase.