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I have a basic question. In <https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index.html>, I see the image below. What is the point of #8? How is it used? It is a required item to be submitted to the Cerbos API, but putting any value into it doesn't change any of the Cerbos responses.

The request can contain multiple resources, so the response will contain multiple decisions. The resource ID helps to identify the decision for the given resource.

Aaaaah! tq tq. Is this documented somewhere?

Do you mean the “multiple resources” part?

if i look here <https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index.html> it isn't immediately obvious in the "Response" part of the documentation that the multiple resources part is how the ID is used.

Yes, I mean the "multiple resources" part.

Recently we deprecated `CheckResourceSet (/api/check)` in favour of `CheckResources (/api/check/resources)` which accepts multiple resources.

I see. It's time to upgrade my Cerbos deployment

I also see now you have the a sidecar deployment option. This is good.

The "centralized" concept here isn't having a centralized Cerbos deployment, but having a centralized git repo for all policies.

Yes, I think so (git or other kinds of storage)