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You need a root key with the permissions listed on this page. Create one in the dashboard under Settings > Root Keys. See Permission reference for every permission.
Get the gateway policies of an , in the order they run. The gateway runs them top to bottom and stops at the first one that rejects the request. The whole list comes back in one response. Use it to get current policy IDs before update-policy, because set-policies gives every policy a new ID.

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Usage

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Flags

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string
required
App ID or slug.
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string
required
Environment ID or slug.
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string
required
Project ID or slug. Both forms resolve to the same project.

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Shared flags

Every unkey api command accepts these; CLI output and shared flags describes them in full.
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string
A JSON document sent as the request body instead of building it from the flags above. It is mutually exclusive with the request-building flags, and unknown fields are rejected locally. See Send a raw body.
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string
Root key for the request. Falls back to UNKEY_ROOT_KEY, then to the config file written by unkey auth login. See CLI authentication.
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string
default:"https://api.unkey.com"
Base URL of the API. Falls back to UNKEY_API_BASE_URL. You don’t normally need to set it.
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string
default:"~/.unkey/config.toml"
Path of the TOML file that unkey auth login writes. Falls back to UNKEY_CONFIG.
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string
Output format. Falls back to UNKEY_OUTPUT. Set json to print the full response envelope (meta and data) for piping; any other value prints the request ID followed by data.

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Required permissions

Your root key needs one of:
  • environment.*.read_policies (any environment)
  • environment.<environment_id>.read_policies (a specific environment)
Without a matching permission the API answers 403 and the CLI prints Permission denied: followed by the detail. See Root key permissions for the full catalog.

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Examples

List the policies of production:
Print policy IDs and names:

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API endpoint

The command calls POST /v2/gateway.listPolicies and prints its response. The request fields carry the same names as the flags in camelCase, which is the shape --body expects.

Gateway policies

How policies are ordered, matched, and evaluated at the edge.
Last modified on September 29, 2026