overlay: 1.0.0
info:
title: API Evangelist enhancements — Medium OAuth2 Authorization API
version: 1.0.0
extends: medium-authorization-api-openapi.yml
x-generated: '2026-09-17'
x-method: generated
x-source: derived from this repository's conventions/, errors/, lifecycle/ and data-model/ artifacts; the original
OpenAPI is never mutated
actions:
- target: $.info
description: Record the retired status of the surface on the contract itself, where Medium states it only in prose
on an archived README.
update:
x-lifecycle-status: unsupported
x-lifecycle-evidence: https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs — "The Medium API is no longer supported. We
do not recommend using it."; repository archived on GitHub, last push 2023-03-02
x-new-integrations-accepted: false
- target: $.info
description: Annotate the runtime safety properties an agent needs before calling. Derived in conventions/medium-conventions.yml;
absent from the original contract.
update:
x-idempotency:
supported: false
coverage: none
x-reversibility:
grade: none
note: No delete, unpublish, update, archive or restore operation exists anywhere in Medium's contract.
x-dry-run:
supported: false
note: 'Medium''s docs: "We do not have a sandbox environment yet ... These endpoints will perform actions
on production data on medium.com."'
x-rate-limits:
published: false
- target: $.info
description: Point at the API Evangelist artifacts derived from this spec.
update:
x-api-evangelist:
profile: https://github.com/api-evangelist/medium
errors: errors/medium-problem-types.yml
conventions: conventions/medium-conventions.yml
lifecycle: lifecycle/medium-lifecycle.yml
data-model: data-model/medium-data-model.yml
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