Protocol-level facts for Roboflow REST and Inference APIs — URL patterns, auth, parameters, error codes, and SDK quick-start. For deployment strategy and Workflow execution patterns, see roboflow-inference.
Use when connecting cloud storage (AWS S3 / S3-compatible or Google Cloud Storage) to Roboflow to mirror images into a workspace — creating storage credentials, defining datasources (bucket-mirror configs), selecting objects with glob rules, validating access, and running/scheduling mirror jobs.
Use when uploading locally trained model weights (YOLO, RF-DETR, YOLO-NAS, PaliGemma, Florence-2) to Roboflow — the client-side Python SDK upload flow, safe API key handling, per-family packaging requirements, and verifying the upload.
Deployment option comparison (serverless, dedicated, self-hosted, batch) and Workflow execution patterns. For raw API URL patterns, auth, and request/response formats, see roboflow-api-reference.
Use when explaining where Roboflow features live in the app.roboflow.com web app, mapping intents like upload, annotate, train, deploy to specific page URLs.
Use when training Roboflow models, improving accuracy, or setting up a production feedback loop — covers architecture selection, model IDs, checkpoints, evaluation metrics, the iterative improvement playbook, and Active Learning through the Project Model Workflow block.
Use when searching for or using public datasets/models on Roboflow Universe (universe.roboflow.com), the open repository of 1M+ computer vision datasets and 50K+ pre-trained models.