Environments

Every app has a development and a production environment, each with its own keys, published guides and kill switch.

	Development	Production
Use it for	Local builds, staging, testing new guides	Your real users
Keys	`ps_pub_dev_…`, `ps_sec_dev_…`	`ps_pub_prod_…`, `ps_sec_prod_…`
Counts toward usage	No	Yes

You publish a guide to one environment at a time, so a guide can be at version 3 in development and version 2 in production.

Keys

Publishable keys (ps_pub_…) go in your app. They can only read published guides and send guide events.
Secret keys (ps_sec_…) are for your servers and CI, to publish guides with the server API. They are shown once; rotate them in Settings › API keys.

Kill switch

Guides › Environments › Turn off guides stops every guide in that environment within a minute, without a release. Your app keeps working; guides simply stop starting.

Switching in the dashboard

The context switcher at the top of the sub-navigation picks the app and the environment. Lists, analytics and anchors show the selected environment.