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Or is the backend available via the API somewhere?

You can set the backend as a project-level setting with the <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pulumi-yaml/#project-configuration-reference:~:text=backend,-%3A|backend.url> key in `Pulumi.yaml` or as an operation-level setting with the `PULUMI_BACKEND_URL` <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/environment-variables/#environment-variables:~:text=Set%20this%20environment%20variable%20to%20use%20a%20specified%20backend%20instead%20of%20the%20default%20backend|env var>.

We are also likely to start storing the backend info in the stack file in the future to address this scenario even more directly. <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/2996|https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/2996> is an issue tracking this. 