{"id":"ceb8008b-f9ab-475b-b252-c7f247ed7392","task":"Authenticate to a state BioTrack Trace API instance","domain":"docs.api.nm.biotrackthc.net","steps":["Identify your state's specific BioTrack Trace hostname, since each state runs its own deployment rather than a single shared API host.","Submit a login request with your license number, username, and account password to your state's login endpoint.","Capture the sessionid returned on successful login.","Send that sessionid back as the x-api-key header on every subsequent request.","Format all datetime values as ISO 8601 with an explicit UTC offset.","Explicitly pass the training parameter when you intend to hit a sandbox/training database, since omitting it defaults to production."],"gotchas":["BioTrack access is state-license-gated, not self-serve signup; credentials come through your state's licensing and onboarding process.","Each state is effectively a separate deployment with its own hostname; a route written for one state's endpoint may not transfer to another.","Forgetting the training parameter sends test traffic against the live production database instead of a sandbox."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T06:34:02.452Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/ceb8008b-f9ab-475b-b252-c7f247ed7392"}