Environments

Environments are the top-level organization layer for routing configuration.

Organization
└── Environment
      └── Route Collection
            └── Routing Rule

User-visible environment types

Shared across the organization.Use production for shared or live traffic. Organization members can see and edit it.

	Production	Development
Visibility	Shared with org members	Creator only
Typical use	Shared validation and live traffic	Personal iteration
Safe for experiments	Usually no	Yes
Can be copied into	—	Production

Build and test new collections and routing rules in isolation.

Promote collections you want teammates or live traffic to use.

A few limits are enforced in code:

Free-plan organizations can be blocked from creating additional environments for a domain once the domain-level free-tier cap is hit.
Visibility rules differ by type: production is organization-visible, development is creator-only.

Deleting an environment soft-deletes its collections and rules. Requests to those collection URLs stop resolving until the data is restored.