Disable default API key verification (v4)

Hi, I am currently creating a strapi app for our frontend applications. We currently have other backend services to manage user authorization and authentication. As such we would like to be able to pass our own Authorization bearer token when making api calls and add our own token verification logic to our strapi app. I’ve been playing around with extending the users-permissions plugin but have not had any luck and am not even confident this is the correct path to achieve the goal (based on the plugin routes it seems this plugin is for managing admin user sign in?).

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of customization and can direct me on the right path? Is this even possible in strapi (i’ve havn’t been able to find any traces of this in the docs)?
Thank you!

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Disable/Customize API key verification (v4)