API Evangelist enrichment overlay for the Edmunds Cars API

overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enrichment overlay for the Edmunds Cars API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: ../openapi/_original/edmunds-cars-openapi.yaml
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-09-06'
  method: generated
  source: >-
    Enhancements API Evangelist adds on top of the verbatim contract harvested from
    https://api.edmunds.com/openapi.yaml. The harvested document is never mutated; every
    change we make to it is expressed here.
actions:
  - target: $.info
    description: >-
      Record where this contract was fetched from, when, and that the surface it describes
      is gated.
    update:
      x-api-evangelist:
        harvested_from: https://api.edmunds.com/openapi.yaml
        harvested: '2026-09-06'
        http_status: 200
        last_modified: '2023-07-26T16:39:11Z'
        discovered_via: https://api.edmunds.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
        access: >-
          Gated. All operations return HTTP 401 with errorType AUTHENTICATION_ERROR and
          message "Developer Inactive" without a partner-issued key. The open API program
          was retired effective 2018-02-15.
  - target: $.info
    description: Add contact and licence-adjacent links the published document omits.
    update:
      contact:
        name: Edmunds Big Data Engineering
        email: bigdataeng@edmunds.com
        url: https://developer.edmunds.com/contact_us.html
      termsOfService: https://developer.edmunds.com/terms_of_service.html
  - target: $.tags
    description: >-
      The published document declares no tags and leaves every operation untagged, so
      generated navigation and per-tag splits have nothing to group on.
    update:
      - name: Cars
        description: >-
          Edmunds Cars AI-plugin surface — expert editorial reviews and curated local
          vehicle inventory.
  - target: $.paths[*][*]
    description: Assign every operation to the Cars tag.
    update:
      tags:
        - Cars
  - target: $.components.schemas.findInventoryResponse
    description: >-
      Flag the schema defects in the published document rather than silently repairing
      them: findInventoryResponse nests field definitions directly under an object node
      instead of under properties, so the inventory array, VIN, dealer and price fields are
      not reachable by a schema-aware client.
    update:
      x-api-evangelist-note: >-
        As published, inventories declares type object and then places totalNumber and
        results as siblings of type rather than inside properties. A validator sees an
        object with no properties. The field intent is legible to a human reader and is
        reproduced in data-model/edmunds-data-model.yml; the contract is not repaired here
        because guessing the corrected shape would assert a payload we have never observed.
  - target: $.paths['/aiplugin/curated-inventory/v1'].get.responses['200']
    description: Record that no error responses are declared anywhere in the contract.
    update:
      x-api-evangelist-note: >-
        Neither operation declares a single 4xx or 5xx response, though the provider
        documents seven error statuses in prose and returns a fixed JSON envelope. See
        errors/edmunds-problem-types.yml.
  - target: $.paths['/aiplugin/editorial/v3/makes/{make}/models/{model}/years/{year}/expertcontent'].get.responses['200']
    description: Surface the empty-result sentinel a consumer has to check for.
    update:
      x-api-evangelist-note: >-
        A 200 does not mean a review exists. When only edmundsBackLink is populated, there
        is no review for that vehicle.