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API Evangelist enhancements — Lyft Ride-Sharing Rides API

4 actions 4 updates documentation extends lyft-rides-api-openapi.yml

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What the actions change

x-api-evangelistx-oauth-metadatax-public-docsdescriptionurlx-idempotencyx-reversibilityx-reversal-of

Targets 4

$.info

$.externalDocs

$.paths['/rides'].post

$.paths['/rides/{id}/cancel'].post

OpenAPI Overlay

overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements — Lyft Ride-Sharing Rides API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: lyft-rides-api-openapi.yml
x-generated: '2026-09-17'
x-method: generated
x-source: apis.yml, conventions/lyft-conventions.yml, well-known/lyft-well-known.yml, live probes 2026-09-17
actions:
- target: $.info
  description: Point the definition at the only anonymously readable Lyft documentation that exists, and at the
    provider's live OAuth metadata document.
  update:
    x-api-evangelist:
      profile: https://github.com/api-evangelist/lyft
      generated: '2026-09-17'
      note: Enhancement overlay maintained by API Evangelist. Not authored or endorsed by Lyft.
    x-oauth-metadata: https://api.lyft.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
    x-public-docs: https://help.lyft.com/business/hc/en-us/articles/360001599667-Concierge-API-overview
- target: $.externalDocs
  description: developer.lyft.com is NXDOMAIN as of 2026-09-17; replace the dead documentation link with the live
    help-centre article.
  update:
    description: Lyft Business help centre — Concierge API overview (the developer portal at www.lyft.com/developers
      requires sign-in)
    url: https://help.lyft.com/business/hc/en-us/articles/360001599667-Concierge-API-overview
- target: $.paths['/rides'].post
  description: 'Record the agent-safety facts this operation does not state: no replay protection, and which operation
    reverses it.'
  update:
    x-idempotency:
      supported: false
      note: No Idempotency-Key header is defined. A retried request dispatches a second driver and charges a second
        fare.
    x-reversibility:
      reversal_operation: cancelRide
      window_stated: false
      note: Cancellation is available; no numeric free-cancellation window is published by Lyft.
- target: $.paths['/rides/{id}/cancel'].post
  description: Mark this operation as the reversal path for ride creation.
  update:
    x-reversal-of: createRide