generated: '2026-08-05'
method: searched
source: https://www.tigerdata.com/docs/get-started, https://ghost.build/docs/, openapi/
honest_summary: >-
  Tiger Data publishes NO test-mode API credentials, no magic test identifiers, and no
  fixture or trigger tooling. There is no test/live key split — a client credential
  authenticates against real, billable infrastructure. What exists instead is a hosted
  console, a no-credit-card free trial, a first-class DEV environment tag, and
  zero-copy forks as the branching primitive. Recorded as-is; nothing below is invented.
test_live_separation:
  key_prefixes: none — Tiger Cloud client credentials carry no mode marker, and Ghost
    API keys use a single gt_ prefix for all keys
  modes: none
  environment_tag:
    supported: true
    enum: [DEV, PROD]
    schema: EnvironmentTag
    set_with: [setEnvironment, setReplicaEnvironment]
    settable_at_creation: true
    note: >-
      A label on a service, not an isolation boundary or a billing mode. It marks intent
      so tooling and humans can distinguish non-production services; it does not change
      how the API behaves.
console:
  url: https://console.cloud.tigerdata.com/
  legacy_host: https://console.cloud.timescale.com/
  signup: https://console.cloud.timescale.com/signup
  free_trial: yes — no credit card required
  features: SQL editor with an AI SQL assistant, service explorer, chunk timeline
    visualization, client-credential management, Cmd+K command palette
magic_test_values:
  cards: none published
  bank_accounts: none published
  identifiers: none published
  note: Tiger Data is not a payments provider; Ghost delegates card capture to a Stripe
    Setup Intent (createPaymentMethodSetup) and publishes no test cards of its own
time_simulation:
  test_clocks: false
  closest:
    feature: point-in-time recovery / PITR fork
    schema: ForkStrategy
    enum: [LAST_SNAPSHOT, NOW, PITR]
    operation: forkService
    note: forkService with fork_strategy PITR and a target_time reconstructs a service as
      of a past instant — a real time-travel primitive, though for recovery and branching
      rather than for test simulation
fixtures_and_branching:
  zero_copy_fork:
    tiger_cloud: forkService
    ghost: forkDatabase
    note: the intended way to get a safe, disposable copy of production data to test
      against — this is the provider's answer to a sandbox
  ghost_tutorial:
    command: ghost tutorial
    docs: https://ghost.build/tutorials/learn-the-basics/
    note: an interactive in-CLI walkthrough, published in ghost.build/agents.txt
free_tiers:
  ghost:
    included_compute_hours_per_month: published in the getPricing response
      (StandardComputePrice.included_compute_hours_per_month)
    included_storage: published as StoragePrice.included_gib_per_database
    note: the pricing surface is a public API operation (GET /pricing) rather than only a
      marketing page — GET /health and GET /pricing are the anonymous entry points
health_probe:
  url: https://api.ghost.build/v0/health
  http_status: 200
  fetched: '2026-08-05'
  note: the only anonymously callable Ghost operation; useful as a liveness fixture
gaps:
- No test-mode credential exists, so an agent or CI pipeline cannot exercise the Tiger
  Cloud or Ghost write path without provisioning billable infrastructure.
- No request fixtures, mock server, or recorded-response bundle is published for either
  OpenAPI.