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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Relace Code API
description: API for accessing Relace code generation models.
version: 1.0.0
license:
name: MIT
servers:
- url: https://compact.endpoint.relace.run
description: Server for agent trace compaction endpoints
- url: https://instantapply.endpoint.relace.run
description: Server for code application endpoints
- url: https://ranker.endpoint.relace.run
description: Server for code ranking endpoints
- url: https://embeddings.endpoint.relace.run
description: Server for code embedding endpoints
- url: https://api.relace.run
description: Server for general infrastructure
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Code
paths:
/v1/code/compact:
post:
description: Compress an agent trace to only the important details.
servers:
- url: https://compact.endpoint.relace.run
requestBody:
description: Agent trace to compact
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CompactRequest'
example:
messages:
- role: user
content: Find where the rate limiter is configured and raise the ceiling to 200 rps.
- role: assistant
content: ''
tool_calls:
- id: call_abc123
type: function
function:
name: grep
arguments: '{"pattern": "rate_limit"}'
- role: tool
tool_call_id: call_abc123
content: 'config/limits.py:14: RATE_LIMIT_RPS = 100'
- role: assistant
content: Found it — the ceiling is set in config/limits.py line 14. Raising it to 200.
target_tokens: 96000
agent_model: gpt-5.5
responses:
'200':
description: Compressed agent trace
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CompactResponse'
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error400'
'401':
description: Unauthorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error401'
'404':
description: API key not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error404'
'429':
description: Rate limit exceeded
headers:
X-RateLimit-Limit:
schema:
type: string
description: Rate limit ceiling for the API key
X-RateLimit-Remaining:
schema:
type: string
description: Number of requests left for the time window
X-RateLimit-Reset:
schema:
type: string
description: Time at which the rate limit resets
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error429'
'500':
description: Internal server error
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error500'
tags:
- Code
/v1/code/apply:
post:
description: Merge code snippets from an LLM into your existing codebase.
servers:
- url: https://instantapply.endpoint.relace.run
requestBody:
description: Initial code and edits to apply
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InstantApplyRequest'
example:
initial_code: "function calculateTotal(items) {\n let total = 0;\n \n for (const item of items) {\n total += item.price * item.quantity;\n }\n \n return total;\n}"
edit_snippet: "// ... keep existing code\n\nfunction applyDiscount(total, discountRules) {\n let discountedTotal = total;\n \n if (discountRules.percentOff) {\n discountedTotal -= (total * discountRules.percentOff / 100);\n }\n \n if (discountRules.fixedAmount && discountRules.fixedAmount < discountedTotal) {\n discountedTotal -= discountRules.fixedAmount;\n }\n \n return Math.max(0, discountedTotal);\n}"
stream: false
responses:
'200':
description: Code successfully applied
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InstantApplyResponse'
text/event-stream:
schema:
type: string
description: Stream of results from the Instant Apply model (compatible with OpenAI streaming format)
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error400'
'401':
description: Unauthorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error401'
'404':
description: API key not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error404'
'429':
description: Rate limit exceeded
headers:
X-RateLimit-Limit:
schema:
type: string
description: Rate limit ceiling for the API key
X-RateLimit-Remaining:
schema:
type: string
description: Number of requests left for the time window
X-RateLimit-Reset:
schema:
type: string
description: Time at which the rate limit resets
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error429'
'500':
description: Internal server error
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error500'
tags:
- Code
/v1/code/rank:
post:
deprecated: true
description: List files in your codebase in order of relevance to a user's query.
servers:
- url: https://ranker.endpoint.relace.run
requestBody:
description: Query, codebase context, and token limit
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CodeRerankerRequest'
example:
query: Optimize the search function for better performance with large arrays
codebase:
- filename: src/search.ts
content: "function findItem(array: Item[], targetId: string): Item | undefined {\n for (let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {\n const item = array[i];\n if (item.id === targetId) {\n return item;\n}\n}\n return undefined;\n}"
- filename: src/types.ts
content: "interface Item {\n id: string;\n value: string;\n metadata?: Record<string, unknown>;\n}"
- filename: src/render.ts
content: 'function renderItems(items: Item[]): void {\n const container = document.getElementById(''items-container'');\n if (!container) return;\n \n container.innerHTML = '''';\n \n for (const item of items) {\n const element = document.createElement(''div'');\n element.textContent = item.value;\n element.dataset.id = item.id;\n container.appendChild(element);\n}\n}'
- filename: src/styles.css
content: '.container {\n max-width: 1200px;\n margin: 0 auto;\n padding: 20px;\n}\n\n.header {\n background: #f5f5f5;\n padding: 1rem;\n}'
- filename: src/constants.ts
content: export const APP_NAME = 'MyApp';\nexport const VERSION = '1.0.0';\nexport const MAX_ITEMS = 1000;
token_limit: 100000
responses:
'200':
description: Codebase reranked successfully
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/v1CodeRerankerResponse'
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error400'
'401':
description: Unauthorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error401'
'404':
description: API key not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error404'
'429':
description: Rate limit exceeded
headers:
X-RateLimit-Limit:
schema:
type: string
description: Rate limit ceiling for the API key
X-RateLimit-Remaining:
schema:
type: string
description: Number of requests left for the time window
X-RateLimit-Reset:
schema:
type: string
description: Time at which the rate limit resets
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error429'
'500':
description: Internal server error
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error500'
tags:
- Code
/v2/code/rank:
post:
description: Assess the relevance of each file in your codebase to a user's query.
servers:
- url: https://ranker.endpoint.relace.run
requestBody:
description: Query and codebase context for relevance scoring
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CodeRerankerRequest'
example:
query: Optimize the search function for better performance with large arrays
codebase:
- filename: src/search.ts
content: 'function findItem(array: Item[], targetId: string): Item | undefined {\n for (let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {\n const item = array[i];\n if (item.id === targetId) {\n return item;\n}\n}\n return undefined;\n}'
token_limit: 100000
responses:
'200':
description: Codebase reranked successfully
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/v2CodeRerankerResponse'
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error400'
'401':
description: Unauthorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error401'
'404':
description: API key not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error404'
'429':
description: Rate limit exceeded
headers:
X-RateLimit-Limit:
schema:
type: string
description: Rate limit ceiling for the API key
X-RateLimit-Remaining:
schema:
type: string
description: Number of requests left for the time window
X-RateLimit-Reset:
schema:
type: string
description: Time at which the rate limit resets
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error429'
'500':
description: Internal server error
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error500'
tags:
- Code
/v1/code/embed:
post:
description: Embed code snippets into a vector database for semantic search.
servers:
- url: https://embeddings.endpoint.relace.run
requestBody:
description: Codebase context for embedding
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/v1CodeEmbedderRequest'
example:
model: relace-embed-v1
input:
- input 1
- input 2
responses:
'200':
description: Codebase embedded successfully
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/v1CodeEmbedderResponse'
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error400'
'401':
description: Unauthorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error401'
'404':
description: API key not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error404'
'429':
description: Rate limit exceeded
headers:
X-RateLimit-Limit:
schema:
type: string
description: Rate limit ceiling for the API key
X-RateLimit-Remaining:
schema:
type: string
description: Number of requests left for the time window
X-RateLimit-Reset:
schema:
type: string
description: Time at which the rate limit resets
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error429'
'500':
description: Internal server error
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error500'
tags:
- Code
components:
schemas:
InstantApplyRequest:
type: object
required:
- initial_code
- edit_snippet
properties:
model:
type: string
description: Choice of apply model to use
enum:
- relace-apply-3
default: relace-apply-3
initial_code:
type: string
description: The original code that needs to be modified
edit_snippet:
type: string
description: The code changes to be applied to the initial code
instruction:
type: string
description: Optional single line instruction for to disambiguate the edit snippet. *e.g.* `Remove the captcha from the login page`
stream:
type: boolean
description: Whether to stream the response back
default: false
relace_metadata:
type: object
description: Optional metadata for logging and tracking purposes.
additionalProperties: true
Error429:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: string
description: Error message
example: Rate limit exceeded
CompactResponse:
type: object
properties:
messages:
type: array
description: The compressed agent trace, in the same format as the input.
items:
type: object
description: A message in the same format as the input
usage:
type: object
properties:
prompt_tokens:
type: integer
description: Number of tokens in the input conversation
completion_tokens:
type: integer
description: Size of the retained view in the server's tokenizer
total_tokens:
type: integer
description: Total number of tokens used
description: Token usage information for the request, counted in the Relace Compact tokenizer.
example:
messages:
- role: user
content: Find where the rate limiter is configured and raise the ceiling to 200 rps.
- role: assistant
content: Found it — the ceiling is set in config/limits.py line 14. Raising it to 200.
usage:
prompt_tokens: 135407
completion_tokens: 17323
total_tokens: 152730
v2CodeRerankerResponse:
type: object
properties:
results:
type: array
description: Array of files ranked by relevance to the query, with their scores
items:
type: object
properties:
filename:
type: string
description: The name of the file including its path
score:
type: number
description: The relevance score for this file (between 0 and 1)
format: float
required:
- filename
- score
example:
- filename: src/search.ts
score: 0.953125
usage:
type: object
properties:
total_tokens:
type: integer
description: Total number of tokens used
example: 96
description: Token usage information for the request
Error401:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: string
description: Error message
example: Authorized header required
v1CodeEmbedderResponse:
type: object
properties:
results:
type: array
description: Array of embeddings of the input strings
items:
type: object
properties:
index:
type: integer
description: Index of the input string in the request
embedding:
type: array
description: Embedding vector of the input string
example:
- index: 0
embedding:
- 0.123
- 0.456
- 0.789
- index: 1
embedding:
- 0.234
- 0.567
- 0.89
usage:
type: object
properties:
total_tokens:
type: integer
description: Total number of tokens used
example: 8
description: Token usage information for the request
CodeRerankerRequest:
type: object
required:
- query
- codebase
- token_limit
properties:
query:
type: string
description: The natural language query describing the problem to solve
codebase:
type: array
description: An array of files with their content, providing context for the query
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CodeFile'
token_limit:
type: integer
description: Maximum token limit for the response
default: 100000
relace_metadata:
type: object
description: Optional metadata for logging and tracking purposes. Removed before forwarding to origin server.
additionalProperties: true
Error500:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: string
description: Error message
example: Error fetching from origin server
v1CodeRerankerResponse:
type: array
description: Array of files ranked by relevance to the query
example:
- src/search.ts
- src/styles.css
- src/render.ts
- src/constants.ts
- src/types.ts
CodeFile:
type: object
required:
- filename
- content
properties:
filename:
type: string
description: The name of the file including its path
content:
type: string
description: The content of the file
CompactRequest:
type: object
required:
- messages
properties:
messages:
type: array
description: The agent trace to compact, in OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, or Anthropic Messages format. The format is detected automatically, and the compressed trace is returned in the same format.
items:
type: object
description: A message in the same format as the rest of the trace
target_tokens:
type: integer
description: Approximate token budget for the retained context, in your agent model's tokens. Defaults to 96k tokens. Counts are computed with a heuristic lookup table to reduce API latency; your provider's count may differ slightly.
agent_model:
type: string
description: The model that generated the trace, as its API model id (e.g. `claude-fable-5`, `gpt-5.5`, `grok-4.5`). Relace uses this to apply model-specific compaction improvements and count tokens more accurately.
InstantApplyResponse:
type: object
properties:
mergedCode:
type: string
description: The merged code with the changes applied
usage:
type: object
properties:
prompt_tokens:
type: integer
description: Number of tokens in the prompt
completion_tokens:
type: integer
description: Number of tokens in the completion
total_tokens:
type: integer
description: Total number of tokens used
description: Token usage information for the request
example:
mergedCode: "function calculateTotal(items) {\n let total = 0;\n \n for (const item of items) {\n total += item.price * item.quantity;\n }\n \n return total;\n}\n\nfunction applyDiscount(total, discountRules) {\n let discountedTotal = total;\n \n if (discountRules.percentOff) {\n discountedTotal -= (total * discountRules.percentOff / 100);\n }\n \n if (discountRules.fixedAmount && discountRules.fixedAmount < discountedTotal) {\n discountedTotal -= discountRules.fixedAmount;\n }\n \n return Math.max(0, discountedTotal);\n}"
usage:
prompt_tokens: 245
completion_tokens: 187
total_tokens: 432
Error404:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: string
description: Error message
example: 'Bad Request: Route not found'
v1CodeEmbedderRequest:
type: object
properties:
model:
type: string
description: The model to use for embedding
input:
type: array
description: Array of strings to embed
items:
type: string
output_dtype:
type: string
description: Data type of the output embedding vectors. The `binary` quantization results in more compact embeddings with only a small loss in retrieval performance. See [HuggingFace blog post](https://huggingface.co/blog/embedding-quantization#binary-quantization) for details.
enum:
- float
- binary
default: float
Error400:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: string
description: Error message
example: Invalid JSON in request body
securitySchemes:
bearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: Relace API key Authorization header using the Bearer scheme.