Erich Blume
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Create goal card and 4 prerequisite cards for building authentik from a custom Nix derivation instead of using pkgs.authentik from nixpkgs. This removes the dependency on the nixpkgs packaging timeline and gives full version control over authentik releases. Chain: mikado/authentik-source-build Leaf nodes: authentik-api-client-generation, authentik-python-backend-derivation Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title: Generate Authentik API Clients
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modified: 2026-02-28
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status: active
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tags:
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- how-to
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- authentik
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- nix
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---
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# Generate Authentik API Clients
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Build Go and TypeScript API client bindings from authentik's OpenAPI spec (`schema.yml`). These are build-time inputs for the Go server and web UI respectively.
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## Context
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Authentik maintains a separate repo ([`goauthentik/client-go`](https://github.com/goauthentik/client-go)) with pre-generated Go client code. The nixpkgs derivation fetches this and injects it into the Go vendor directory via a setup hook (`apiGoVendorHook`). The TypeScript client is generated inline from `schema.yml` using `openapi-generator-cli`.
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Both clients are generated from the same `schema.yml` OpenAPI spec in the main authentik repo.
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## What to Do
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1. Create a Nix derivation (`client-go`) that generates Go API client bindings from `schema.yml` using `openapi-generator-cli`
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2. Create a Nix derivation (`client-ts`) that generates TypeScript fetch client bindings from the same spec
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3. Create a setup hook (`apiGoVendorHook`) that replaces `goauthentik.io/api/v3` in the Go vendor directory with the generated client
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4. Verify the generated code compiles (Go: `go build`, TypeScript: type-check with `tsc`)
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## Key Details
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- Source spec: `schema.yml` in the authentik repo root
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- Go client replaces `vendor/goauthentik.io/api/v3/` in the server build
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- TypeScript client replaces `web/node_modules/@goauthentik/api/` in the web UI build
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- The nixpkgs derivation patches the generated Go client (`client-go-config.patch`) — check if still needed
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## Related
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- [[build-authentik-from-source]] — Parent goal
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- [[authentik-go-server-derivation]] — Consumer of Go client
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- [[authentik-web-ui-derivation]] — Consumer of TypeScript client
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