Authentication

To interact with the Encord platform, you need to authenticate. Please, follow these steps:

1. Ensure that you have an Encord account. If you don't, you can register here.
2. Follow this documentation to obtain a public and private ssh key.

   💡 Consider creating a service accounte for the purpose of creating agents.

3. In the environment that you plan to run your agents, set either of these two environment variables:
4. ENCORD_SSH_KEY: Containing the raw private key file content
5. ENCORD_SSH_KEY_FILE: Containing the absolute path to the private key file

If none of the env variables are set, the code will cast a pydantic validation error the first time it needs the ssh key.

ℹ️ Effectively, this part of the encord SDK is used to perform authentication.