Sigma API

Sigma REST API Authentication

Authenticate against the Sigma Computing REST API and obtain a bearer token. This skill is a prerequisite for any skill that calls the Sigma API directly with curl.

curl, jq, and base64 must be available. curl and base64 ship with macOS and most Linux distros; jq usually does not — install with brew install jq (macOS) or apt install jq (Debian/Ubuntu).

Reference Index

Base URL Selection

The host depends on the user's Sigma cloud and region. Confirm with the user before exporting. The user can also look up their base URL in Administration → Developer Access in the Sigma app.

The authoritative list lives in the Sigma help docs: Supported regions, data platforms, and features. Mirror below:

SIGMA_BASE_URL is the API host, not the app URL — https://aws-api.sigmacomputing.com, not https://app.sigmacomputing.com.

Step 1 — Set Credentials

Where to find credentials: Sigma admin settings → Administration → APIs and Tokens (also surfaced as Developer Access → API credentials).

export SIGMA_BASE_URL="https://aws-api.sigmacomputing.com"  # adjust per cloud
export SIGMA_CLIENT_ID="your-client-id"
export SIGMA_CLIENT_SECRET="your-client-secret"

Step 2 — Exchange Credentials for a Bearer Token

There are two independent ways to obtain a token — use whichever suits you, and switch between them freely:

• Client credentials (this section) — an admin provisions a client ID/secret up front; the right fit for headless or automated use.
• Interactive browser login — sign in through the browser with no pre-issued credentials; the right fit when a human is at the keyboard.

Either way the token is short-lived (~1 hour TTL). The client-credentials grant (this section) uses OAuth 2.0 with HTTP Basic auth on the token endpoint.

Client credentials: bundled helper script

scripts/get-token.sh reads the three env vars, fails loudly on missing inputs or non-2xx responses, and prints a single export SIGMA_API_TOKEN=... line. eval it to load the token into the current shell:

• Claude Code: eval "$(${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/sigma-api/scripts/get-token.sh)"
• Cursor / Codex / generic: eval "$(bash <repo-root>/skills/sigma-api/scripts/get-token.sh)"

The script's interface:

Non-zero exit on missing env vars or token-exchange failure; error message goes to stderr.

Manual token exchange (inline fallback)

CREDENTIALS=$(printf '%s:%s' "$SIGMA_CLIENT_ID" "$SIGMA_CLIENT_SECRET" | base64)

export SIGMA_API_TOKEN=$(curl -sf -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Basic ${CREDENTIALS}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
  -d "grant_type=client_credentials" \
  "$SIGMA_BASE_URL/v2/auth/token" \
  | jq -r '.access_token')

[ -z "$SIGMA_API_TOKEN" ] || [ "$SIGMA_API_TOKEN" = "null" ] && { echo "Token exchange failed" >&2; exit 1; }

Alternative: interactive browser login

Prefer signing in through a browser over provisioning a client ID/secret? Sigma also supports an interactive OAuth 2.1 authorization-code + PKCE login — no pre-issued credentials, the client registers itself. It's the right fit when a human is at the keyboard; keep the client-credentials flow above for headless automation.

scripts/browser-login.sh packages the whole flow: it reads SIGMA_BASE_URL, discovers the OAuth endpoints, opens your browser, reads back the pasted callback URL, exchanges the code, stores the refresh token in the OS keychain, and prints an export SIGMA_API_TOKEN=… line to eval — just like get-token.sh.

• Claude Code: eval "$(${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/sigma-api/scripts/browser-login.sh)"
• Cursor / Codex / generic: eval "$(bash <repo-root>/skills/sigma-api/scripts/browser-login.sh)"

The script picks a random high loopback port that nothing is currently listening on for its redirect URI, so the one-time authorization code is never delivered to another local process. Prompts go to stderr; only the export line reaches stdout.

Full discovery-driven walkthrough (including the refresh-token storage the script performs) in reference/browser-oauth-login.md — read it to understand or customize what the script does.

Reusing a browser login headlessly

After browser-login.sh has run once, scripts/refresh-token.sh mints a valid access token with no further browser interaction — the headless counterpart to get-token.sh for the browser flow. It serves a cached access token while it is still valid (~1h) and only redeems the stored refresh token when the cache is stale, rotating the stored refresh token when the server issues a new one.

• Claude Code: eval "$(${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/sigma-api/scripts/refresh-token.sh)"
• Cursor / Codex / generic: eval "$(bash <repo-root>/skills/sigma-api/scripts/refresh-token.sh)"

Run it once per shell (or per phase of work) and reuse the exported SIGMA_API_TOKEN across calls; it is cheap to call repeatedly since a valid cache is served without a network round-trip. If it reports the refresh token is expired or revoked, run browser-login.sh again.

Step 3 — Verify the Token

GET /v2/whoami is the canonical sanity check that the token is valid and the base URL is correct — use it after each token exchange and any time a later call's response is suspect.

curl -sf -H "Authorization: Bearer $SIGMA_API_TOKEN" \
  "$SIGMA_BASE_URL/v2/whoami" | jq .

The response includes userId, organizationId, and accountType.

Token Expiry

Tokens last about an hour. Re-eval the helper (or repeat the manual exchange) to refresh. For long-running sessions, it's fine to refresh at the top of each phase of work.

Interpreting HTTP Status Codes

• 2xx. Success.
• 401 Unauthorized. The token is missing, expired, or otherwise not accepted. Re-run the token exchange.
• 403 Forbidden. The credentials authenticated, but the caller isn't permitted to make this request.
• 404 Not Found. Wrong path, wrong SIGMA_BASE_URL for the user's cloud, or the resource doesn't exist.
• 5xx. Server-side error. Retry with backoff.

Security Notes

• Never echo $SIGMA_API_TOKEN, $SIGMA_CLIENT_SECRET, or any other secret to logs the user can share.
• Don't write secrets to files inside the workspace.
• Treat the bearer token like a password — only pass it via the Authorization header, never on a query string.