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API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Configuration Sales Categories API

3 actions 3 updates phrasing extends openapi/toast-sales-categories-api-openapi.yml

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x-apievangelist-phrasing

Targets 3

$.info

$.paths['/salesCategories/{guid}'].get

$.paths['/salesCategories'].get

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# Generated by API Evangelist (build-phrasing.py). Our phrasing, not observed demand.
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Configuration Sales Categories API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/toast-sales-categories-api-openapi.yml
actions:
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'
      generator: build-phrasing.py
      label: Generated by API Evangelist
      operations: 2
- target: $.paths['/salesCategories/{guid}'].get
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      intent: Look up one sales category
      effect: read
      questions:
      - How do I see one sales category, like alcohol, used to analyze purchases?
      - What details are stored on a single sales category?
      instructions:
      - text: Get sales category {guid} for restaurant {restaurant}.
        slots:
          guid: path.guid
          restaurant: header.Toast-Restaurant-External-ID
      - text: Show me sales category {guid}.
        slots:
          guid: path.guid
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/salesCategories'].get
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      intent: List a restaurant's sales categories
      effect: read
      questions:
      - Which sales categories, such as food and alcohol, does a restaurant use?
      - Can I list only sales categories changed since a date?
      instructions:
      - text: List sales categories for restaurant {restaurant}.
        slots:
          restaurant: header.Toast-Restaurant-External-ID
      - text: List sales categories at {restaurant} modified since {since}.
        slots:
          restaurant: header.Toast-Restaurant-External-ID
          since: query.lastModified
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'

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