---
title: "Validate a policy without saving it"
method: POST
path: "/v1/authz/policies/validate"
tags: ["Access"]
---

# Validate a policy without saving it

`POST /v1/authz/policies/validate`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.openrelay.inc`
- URL: `https://api.openrelay.inc/v1/authz/policies/validate`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Returns line and column diagnostics and the lockout check for a candidate policy. Requires a signed-in session and the permission saving it would need.

Checked against the `guardrail.manage` permission for the resource it acts on. See [Permissions](https://docs.openrelay.inc/docs/permissions) for the roles and API key permissions that include it.

## Request body

- AuthzPolicyRequest
  - `cedarText` string
  - `description` string
  - `enabled` boolean: Defaults to true.
  - `endpoints` string[]
  - `guardrail` 'key_networks' | 'everyone_networks' | 'model_allowlist'
  - `ipRanges` string[]
  - `kind` 'guardrail' | 'custom', required
  - `models` string[]
  - `name` string, required

## Response `200`

The validation

- PolicyValidation
  - `diagnostics` PolicyDiagnostic[], required
    - `column` integer
    - `line` integer
    - `message` string, required
  - `lockout` string[], required: Permissions the saving owner would lose (policy.manage, member.manage); saving is refused while this is non-empty.
  - `valid` boolean, required

## Other responses

- `400`: The request is invalid
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key
- `403`: The caller is authenticated but may not do this. The caller's role or the API key's permissions do not allow it, or the request targets another organization (FORBIDDEN, or NOT_A_MEMBER for a session); a permission denial also names the action it needed (permission), which kind of policy denied it (deniedBy) and the deciding policy ids (policies). Or the organization is suspended pending review (ORG_SUSPENDED) or has been deleted (ORG_DISABLED). A new API key or a wider scope clears neither of the last two; see [Account and balance refusals](https://docs.openrelay.inc/docs/errors#account-and-balance-refusals). A user session whose email address is not confirmed is refused on every operation (EMAIL_UNVERIFIED); confirm the address from the confirmation email, then sign in again.
- `404`: Resource not found

## Changes

- **2026-10-26** `7fe59d94a9f5`: 4 info
  - added the optional property `requestId` to the response with the `400` status
  - added the optional property `requestId` to the response with the `401` status
  - added the optional property `requestId` to the response with the `403` status
  - added the optional property `requestId` to the response with the `404` status
- **2026-10-10** `12b2fcbcc298`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/openrelay/apis/openrelay-api/changes/v1/authz/policies/validate/post.md)

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