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## Exclusions

Exclusions allow you to disable authentication for sections of the API.
The Flipt API is made of up of top-level API sections, each with its own unique prefix:
The Flipt API is made up of several top-level API sections, each with its own unique prefix.

For example:

- `/api/v1` is the core feature flag state management section
- `/meta` describes the configuration of the running Flipt instance
- `/evaluate/v1` is the application facing flag state evaluation API

Each of these API sections can be optionally omitted from requiring authentication.
A common use case is to allow the evaluation API to be publicly accessible while still requiring authenticated users for managing feature-flag configuration and state.
Several of these API sections can be optionally omitted from requiring authentication.
A common use case is to allow the evaluation API to be publicly accessible while still requiring authenticated users to manage feature-flag configuration and state.

By default, when authentication is configured as `required: true`, the effective configuration for the exclusions looks like this:

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required: true
exclude:
management: false
metadata: false
evaluation: false
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