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AmeriCorps Datasets API — API Evangelist enhancements

4 actions 4 updates update extends ../openapi/americorps-datasets-api-openapi.yml
Generated by API Evangelist Written by API Evangelist tooling for AmeriCorps's API. It is a proposal applied on top of the contract, not a document AmeriCorps publishes.
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What the actions change

x-agentic-accessresponsesx-agent-notesx-type-fidelity-warningx-paginationx-cachingx-use-whenx-importance

Targets 4

$.info
$.paths['/resource/{dataset_id}.json'].get
$.paths['/resource/{dataset_id}.csv'].get
$.components.parameters.SoqlOrder

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overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: AmeriCorps Datasets API — API Evangelist enhancements
  version: 1.0.0
extends: ../openapi/americorps-datasets-api-openapi.yml
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: generated
  source: >-
    API Evangelist enrichment pass. Every example below is a REAL response captured from
    data.americorps.gov on 2026-09-02; every header and status added is one that was
    observed on the wire or documented at dev.socrata.com. Nothing here is invented, and the
    underlying OpenAPI is not mutated.
actions:
  - target: $.info
    update:
      x-agent-notes: >-
        Read-only. Anonymous access returns full data. Row schema is per-dataset and is NOT
        in this contract — discover it at runtime from X-SODA2-Fields / X-SODA2-Types.
      x-type-fidelity-warning: >-
        Numeric columns are returned as JSON STRINGS by this endpoint ("all":"0.9035") even
        though X-SODA2-Types declares them "number". The OData v4 representation of the same
        dataset (https://data.americorps.gov/api/odata/v4/{dataset_id}) returns real JSON
        numbers. A client that assumes numbers here will fail.
  - target: $.paths['/resource/{dataset_id}.json'].get
    update:
      x-agentic-access:
        action-class: connected
        consequence: read
        subject: optional
        token:
          max-ttl: 3600
        audit: none
      x-pagination:
        style: limit-offset
        params:
          - $limit
          - $offset
        max_limit: 50000
        envelope: none
        warning: >-
          Always pair $limit/$offset with an explicit $order. Without a stable sort, paging a
          mutating dataset can repeat or skip rows.
      x-caching:
        etag: true
        last_modified: true
        detail: >-
          Weak ETag and Last-Modified are returned. Use If-None-Match / If-Modified-Since —
          most AmeriCorps datasets change a few times a year, so this is the largest single
          saving available to a polling client.
      responses:
        '200':
          x-example-source: >-
            https://data.americorps.gov/resource/fzpw-9z8s.json?$limit=2 (HTTP 200, 2026-09-02)
          x-example:
            - code: MOTSKILLS
              all: '0.9035'
              asn: '0.9020'
              nccc: '0.9199'
              vista: '0.9234'
            - code: MOTIDEALS
              all: '0.8731'
              asn: '0.8723'
              nccc: '0.7911'
              vista: '0.9138'
          x-observed-headers:
            X-SODA2-Fields: '["code","all","asn","nccc","vista"]'
            X-SODA2-Types: '["text","number","number","number","number"]'
            X-SODA2-Data-Out-Of-Date: 'false'
            X-SODA2-Truth-Last-Modified: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:49:02 GMT
            ETag: weak entity tag
            Access-Control-Allow-Origin: '*'
            X-Socrata-Region: aws-us-east-1-fedramp-prod
        '400':
          x-example-source: >-
            https://data.americorps.gov/resource/fzpw-9z8s.json?$select=nosuchcolumn
            (HTTP 400, 2026-09-02)
          x-example:
            message: >-
              Query coordinator error: query.soql.no-such-column; No such column: nosuchcolumn
            errorCode: query.soql.no-such-column
            data:
              column: nosuchcolumn
              dataset: juliett.212871
              position:
                row: 1
                column: 8
                line: SELECT `nosuchcolumn`
          x-note: >-
            Note the key is errorCode, not code, and there is no `error` boolean on this shape.
        '404':
          x-example-source: 'https://data.americorps.gov/resource/zzzz-zzzz.json (HTTP 404, 2026-09-02)'
          x-example:
            code: dataset.missing
            error: true
            message: Not found
            data:
              id: zzzz-zzzz
        '429':
          description: >-
            Too Many Requests. Documented at dev.socrata.com/docs/response-codes.html.
            Not declared in the source contract.
  - target: $.paths['/resource/{dataset_id}.csv'].get
    update:
      x-agentic-access:
        action-class: connected
        consequence: read
        subject: optional
        token:
          max-ttl: 3600
        audit: none
      x-use-when: Bulk export. Preferred over the JSON representation for whole-dataset pulls.
      responses:
        '200':
          x-example-source: >-
            https://data.americorps.gov/resource/fzpw-9z8s.csv?$limit=2 (HTTP 200, 2026-09-02)
          x-example: |
            "code","all","asn","nccc","vista"
            "MOTSKILLS","0.9035","0.9020","0.9199","0.9234"
            "MOTIDEALS","0.8731","0.8723","0.7911","0.9138"
  - target: $.components.parameters.SoqlOrder
    update:
      x-importance: >-
        Effectively required whenever $offset is used. Socrata does not guarantee a stable
        row order without it.

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