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API Evangelist enhancements for Linode API v4 Linode Instances API

2 actions 2 updates update extends ../openapi/linode-linode-instances-api-openapi.yml
Generated by API Evangelist Written by API Evangelist tooling for Linode's API. It is a proposal applied on top of the contract, not a document Linode publishes.
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What the actions change

x-rate-limitx-api-evangelistx-error-envelopex-paginationx-filteringx-idempotency

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$.info
$.paths['/linode/instances'].post

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overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements for Linode API v4 Linode Instances API
  version: '2026-09-17'
extends: ../openapi/linode-linode-instances-api-openapi.yml
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-09-17'
  method: generated
  source: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/rate-limits, https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/pagination,
    https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/errors, https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/filtering-and-sorting
  note: Captures cross-cutting runtime semantics Akamai documents in prose but does not express in the contract.
    Never mutates the harvested spec.
actions:
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-api-evangelist:
      profile: https://apis.io/providers/linode/
      enriched: '2026-09-17'
      contract-source: 'https://github.com/linode/linode-api-openapi (Akamai: Linode API 4.229.1)'
    x-error-envelope:
      format: vendor-json
      shape:
        errors:
        - field: string (optional)
          reason: string
      rfc9457: false
      docs: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/errors
    x-pagination:
      style: page-number
      params:
      - page
      - page_size
      response:
      - data
      - page
      - pages
      - results
      page_size_default: 100
      page_size_min: 25
      page_size_max: 500
      docs: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/pagination
    x-filtering:
      style: X-Filter request header carrying a JSON filter document
      docs: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/filtering-and-sorting
    x-rate-limit:
      default_paginated_get: 200 requests per minute
      default_other: 1600 requests per minute
      status: 429
      headers:
      - X-RateLimit-Limit
      - X-RateLimit-Remaining
      - X-RateLimit-Reset
      - Retry-After
      docs: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/rate-limits
    x-idempotency:
      supported: false
      note: No Idempotency-Key header exists anywhere in the Linode API; a retried write repeats the effect.
- target: $.paths['/linode/instances'].post
  update:
    x-rate-limit:
      limit: 20 requests per 15 seconds
      docs: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/rate-limits
      note: Operation-specific limit published by Akamai, overriding the default.