API Evangelist enhancements — Medium REST Images API

overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements — Medium REST Images API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: medium-images-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
- target: $.components.schemas.Error
  description: Record that the error envelope is bespoke, not RFC 9457, and that the numeric code registry is unpublished.
  update:
    x-error-format: bespoke
    x-rfc9457: false
    x-observed-code:
      code: 6000
      message: An access token is required.
      observed: GET https://api.medium.com/v1/me, HTTP 401, 2026-09-17
    x-code-registry-published: false
- target: $.paths['/images'].post
  description: Flag uploadImage as irreversible and non-idempotent — the single most important fact an agent needs
    about this operation.
  update:
    x-irreversible: true
    x-idempotent: false
    x-agent-guidance: No reversal operation exists. Retrying after a timeout publishes a duplicate. Require human
      confirmation; default publishStatus to draft where applicable.