Document the experimental /api/templates surface

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Motivation

The number of email templates an account can hold is now set by its subscription plan and counted across every account in the organization, rather than a single hardcoded ceiling. Lists can therefore grow well past what one unpaginated payload should comfortably carry.

/api/templates is the answer, and it is a new surface, not a reshaped one. It is the conventions-compliant replacement for the whole email_templates surface: every response is wrapped in a data envelope, writes take a flat request body, and the list paginates. The email_templates operations keep their published shapes untouched — that bare array and that email_template wrapper are already parsed by SDKs and integrations, so reshaping them would break those clients.

The new operations ship marked experimental: the backend change has not shipped yet and no Mailtrap SDK exposes them. The experimental marking comes off, and email_templates is marked deprecated, in a single later change — the new path going stable is exactly what makes deprecating the old one fair to readers.

Changes

All in specs/templates.openapi.yml.

Five new operations on /api/templates, each marked (Experimental) in its summary with a matching {% hint style="warning" %} block, so the label shows in the operation list and not only after opening the page:

Operation	operationId	Notes
GET /api/templates	getTemplates	Paginated list, {data, pagination}
POST /api/templates	createTemplate	Flat body
GET /api/templates/{template_id}	getTemplate
PATCH /api/templates/{template_id}	updateTemplate	Every attribute optional; a body carrying none returns 200 unchanged
DELETE /api/templates/{template_id}	deleteTemplate

On the writes, the email_template wrapper is still read through, so a client can switch the path first and flatten the body afterwards.

Pagination — token and per_page parameters plus the Pagination schema. The description covers the three behaviours that are easy to get wrong: a per_page above 100 is clamped rather than rejected (so the schema carries no maximum, which would have made clients refuse the request locally), a token past the last page returns an empty data array rather than an error, and a token whose offset (token - 1) * per_page overflows a 64-bit integer is rejected with 422 — hence format: int64 on the parameter, without which the Java, C# and Go generators cannot express a value that reaches it.

Two rate-limit responses, because there are two throttles. RateLimited is the global 150 requests per 10 seconds per API token, with the x-ratelimit-* headers; it is keyed on the token rather than the path, so it is now documented on every operation in the file. TemplatesRateLimited is on GET/POST /api/templates only, where a further 150/min per-account limit applies in separate allowances for listing and for creating. It is a oneOf, because the endpoint limit answers {"errors": "Rate limit exceeded"} while the global throttle answers the legacy {"error": "Throttled"}; each branch requires its own key so the two are actually distinguishable, and it declares the same x-ratelimit-* headers, which the global throttle sets.

GET /api/email_templates cross-references the new path as the experimental option when response size matters. It is not marked deprecated yet.

Plan-based limit noted on the templates tag, with a template_limit_reached example on both create 422s alongside the validation-error example.

Decisions worth a reviewer's eye

• The shared components are copied, not invented. Pagination, RateLimitedResponse and the RateLimited response come from specs/email-campaigns.openapi.yml, because both render from the same server-side partial under the same throttle — key names, order and nullability must not drift. The response component is named RateLimited rather than campaigns' RATE_LIMITED to match this file's PascalCase responses. One deliberate divergence: RateLimitedResponse here gains required: [error], without which the TemplatesRateLimited oneOf matches both branches for either body and rejects both of its own examples.
• cURL samples only. No SDK has these methods, so writing Node/PHP/Python/Ruby/.NET/Java/Go tabs would mean inventing method names for methods that do not exist. Per CLAUDE.md, an absent tab beats a wrong one; the per-language tabs come back as each SDK ships them. No Terraform sample either — the provider has no templates resource or data source.
• PUT is described in prose, not defined as an operation. The server accepts it on the member path, but defining a put would duplicate the operation in GitBook navigation and in every generated SDK. The file already documents accepted-but-unspecified input this way — the email_template wrapper is likewise absent from the flat schema.
• No total_count in the envelope. That is a deliberate part of the pagination standard, not an omission.
• No account-scoped /api/accounts/{account_id}/templates. That route exists server-side, but this repo deliberately stripped account-scoped paths from every spec (34aa8fe); contacts, campaigns and inbound all document the bare form only.
• The coming deprecation is not announced in the spec. Saying an endpoint will be deprecated is a product-comms commitment, so the description says only that email_templates is the stable option today.

How to test

• Spectral passes (this is what CI runs): npx @stoplight/spectral-cli lint "specs/templates.openapi.yml" --verbose → No results with a severity of 'error' found!
• YAML parses: ruby -ryaml -e 'YAML.load_file("specs/templates.openapi.yml")'
• Every $ref resolves, and no component is left unused
• Each TemplatesRateLimited example validates against exactly one oneOf branch
• Pagination matches specs/email-campaigns.openapi.yml in key names, order and nullability; RateLimitedResponse differs only by the added required
• GitBook blocks balance: five {% hint %}, five {% endhint %}
• In the rendered GitBook preview, each new operation shows its experimental hint and the operation list shows the (Experimental) suffixes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Expanded template API documentation, including the experimental paginated listing endpoint.
  • Documented pagination parameters, response metadata, empty results, and invalid token behavior.
  • Added rate-limit documentation, including applicable responses and reset headers.
  • Added examples for template validation and plan-limit errors during creation.
  • Clarified behavior for unpaginated template listings.

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Walkthrough

The OpenAPI specification expands template documentation, adds experimental token-based pagination, documents validation and plan-limit errors, and adds shared rate-limit responses and schemas across template operations.

Changes

Template API contracts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pagination contract specs/templates.openapi.yml	The specification defines token and per_page parameters, pagination metadata, defaults, limits, clamping, and out-of-range behavior.
Template listing and operation documentation specs/templates.openapi.yml	The specification clarifies unpaginated and experimental paginated listing behavior and adds creation validation and plan-limit examples.
Rate-limit response contracts specs/templates.openapi.yml	Template operations reference 429 responses. Shared schemas document the 150-requests-per-10-seconds limit, reset guidance, and rate-limit headers.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: rabsztok

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2ff86

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- Around line 865-866: Update the response object schema around the properties
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