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Ora's agent-readiness scan of netlify.com (report) gives partial credit on async-job-pattern: "202 Accepted responses found but no clear polling pattern". Every 202 in the spec just says OK or Accepted, so an agent that gets one can't tell whether the work is done, still running, or how to check.

What

This changes descriptions only. Each 202 now states:

  • what the response contains (none of these return a body)
  • what has already happened by the time it returns
  • which operation to poll and which state value means the work is done

No schemas, headers or status codes change. The regenerated Go client differs only in doc comments.

Operation What the API does today (bitballoon) Follow-up
purgeCache No body. Implemented in nf-server; bitballoon only handles the dry-run 202. Nothing to poll. Stated explicitly.
stopAgentRunner / deleteAgentRunner head :accepted. AgentRunner#stop! sets each active session's state to cancelled before returning; the sandbox/dev server shuts down in a background worker. getAgentRunnerSession → state: cancelled
stopAgentRunnerSession / deleteAgentRunnerSession head :accepted. AgentRunnerSession#stop! sets state: cancelled (and done_at) before returning. getAgentRunnerSession → state: cancelled
archiveAgentRunner head :accepted. archive! sets state: archived before returning. getAgentRunner → state: archived
deleteSiteDevServers head :accepted. DevServer.stop_env! sets state: stopping, and StopTaskWorker finishes in the background. getSiteDevServer / listSiteDevServers → state: done (or error)

I verified each row by reading the controller action and model method in netlify/bitballoon.

Not included

  • No Location header is documented. None of these actions set one. Adding Location (pointing at the session or dev server) in the API would let clients follow up without already knowing the poll URL. That's an API change, so it isn't in this PR.
  • The deploy 202s aren't declared. restoreSiteDeploy, lockDeploy and readyDeploy return 202 with the Deploy body when publishing is gated (server_publish_gated?), but the spec only declares 200. Declaring the 202 would change these Go client method signatures (go-swagger returns (*OK, *Accepted, error) when an operation has two success responses), so it's left for a deliberate breaking change. Until then, the Go client probably treats those 202s as errors.

Testing

  • make validate passes. The buildSetup unused-definition warning was already there.
  • make generate: on the base commit it produces no diff, and with this change only the 7 *_responses.go doc comments change
  • make build and go test ./... pass

A separate PR adding operation descriptions and typed schemas also edits swagger.yml, so conflicts are possible.

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Each 202 now says what the response contains (no body for any of them),
what has already happened by the time it returns, and which operation and
`state` value to poll to confirm completion. purgeCache states plainly that
there is nothing to poll.

Descriptions only, matching current API behavior; the regenerated Go
client changes in doc comments only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • Documentation
    • Clarified that accepted archive requests take effect before the response returns and have no body.
    • Documented that stopping or deleting runners and sessions cancels active sessions before returning, while sandbox shutdown continues in the background. Responses have no body; poll session status to confirm cancellation.
    • Clarified that stopping branch development servers sets active servers to stopping before returning, with shutdown in the background. Poll for done or error.
    • Documented that cache purges are queued and propagate across the CDN asynchronously. Responses have no body, and no status is available to poll.

The changes update Go response comments and Swagger descriptions for accepted cache purge, Agent Runner, session, and dev-server operations. They document response bodies, state changes before return, background shutdown or propagation, and available polling checks. The response implementations are unchanged.

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  • netlify/ar-ground-truth issue 572 concerns cancelling owned Agent Runner sessions and confirming cancellation. These changes document checking for the cancelled session state after stop operations.

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Clients may stop polling too early or treat cancellation as completed shutdown; clarify these accepted-response follow-up contracts before merging.

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DeleteSiteDevServersAccepted handles this case with default header values.

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Accepted. The response has no body. The branch's active dev servers are set to `stopping` before this returns and shut down in the background. Poll `getSiteDevServer` (`GET /sites/{site_id}/dev_servers/{dev_server_id}`) or `listSiteDevServers` (`GET /sites/{site_id}/dev_servers`) until `state` is `done` (or `error`).

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the completion condition for every affected dev server.

listSiteDevServers returns multiple DevServer records. State that clients must wait until every affected server reaches done or error; otherwise, a client could stop after one server reaches a terminal state while another remains stopping.

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Update the DeleteSiteDevServers response documentation to clarify that clients
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background. To confirm, poll `getAgentRunnerSession`
(`GET /agent_runners/{agent_runner_id}/sessions/{agent_runner_session_id}`) and check
that `state` is `cancelled`.

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Do not present cancelled as confirmation of sandbox shutdown.

The description says sessions become cancelled before the 202 response returns. A subsequent GET can therefore report cancelled while the sandbox is still shutting down. Clarify that this check confirms session cancellation only, not shutdown completion. Apply the same clarification to the delete and session-stop descriptions and their generated Go comments.

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## Why
Ora's agent-readiness scan of netlify.com
([report](https://ora.ai/score/netlify.com)) flags the API spec on two
checks:
- **`api-schema-analysis`**: "only 29% of operations carry a description
or summary"
- **`function-calling-compat`**: "94/173 typed schemas"

Summaries are what LLM function-calling, SDK generators, and docs show
first. Without them, an agent picking an operation has only the
`operationId` to go on. The Redoc sidebar uses them as titles too.

## What
- **A `summary` on every operation** (186/186), e.g. "List a site's
deploys" or "Roll back a site's production deploy". Each one is a single
line inserted after `operationId`, so the diff is purely additive.
- **A `description` on 22 previously undocumented operations**, only
where the API has behavior worth stating. Examples: `lockDeploy` (later
deploys build but aren't published), `rollbackSiteDeploy` (uses
`rollback_id`), `deleteSiteForm` (also deletes submissions), and the
asset endpoints (only available to certain sites).
- **Response schemas for 4 operations that return JSON but declared
none**, each checked against the controller:
- `createAgentRunnerUploadUrl` → `{ upload_url, file_key }` (`render
json: { upload_url:, file_key: }`, presigned PUT that expires in 1 hour)
- `agentRunnerPullRequest`, `agentRunnerCommitToBranch` → `agentRunner`
(`render json: @agent_runner`)
  - `markDevServerActivity` → `devServer` (`render json: @dev_server`)

## Numbers (built `dist/swagger.json`)
| | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Operations with a summary or description | 55/186 (29%) | **186/186
(100%)** |
| Operations with a `summary` | 0 | 186 |
| Operations with a 2xx response schema | 135 | 139 |

The other 47 without a 2xx schema, audited against bitballoon (corrected
after review; the first version wrongly called 43 of these correct):
- **35** really return no body (`head :no_content` / `head :accepted`,
or no render).
- **Existing spec bugs, not fixed here.** Each one changes a generated
Go return type, so they need a separate breaking-change PR:
- `updateSiteSnippet` and `updateSiteMetadata` are declared 204 but
return 200 with the updated snippet/metadata. The Go client treats that
as an "unexpected success response".
- `rollbackSiteDeploy` is declared 204 but returns 202 when publishing
is gated.
  - `listFormSubmission` declares an array but returns one submission.
- `lockDeploy`, `restoreSiteDeploy` and `readyDeploy` can return 202
with the deploy, but only 200 is declared.
- **2** (`updateServiceInstance`, `deleteServiceInstance`) go through
shared helpers I didn't trace.
- **8** are served outside bitballoon's controllers, so I couldn't
verify them and didn't guess: `uploadDeployServer`,
`uploadDeployEdgeFunction`, `runSiteDatabaseMigrations`,
`restoreSiteDatabaseSnapshot`, `deleteSiteDatabase`,
`deleteSiteDatabaseBranch`, `clearSiteDatabaseComputeSettings`,
`deleteSiteDatabaseSnapshot`.

## Docs page
Redoc uses `summary` for headings and sidebar labels, so adding
summaries would have hidden the operationIds that `netlify api --help`
points people to. A docs-only Redocly entry (`docs@latest` in
`redocly.yml`) runs a small decorator (`src/docs/redocly-plugin.js`)
that renders headings as `listSiteDeploys: List a site's deploys`. The
sidebar stays sorted by operationId, and the docs list the same
operations as before. `swagger.json`, `openapi.json` and `index.d.ts`
keep the plain summaries.

I couldn't exactly reproduce Ora's "typed schemas" count. Its operation
total (173) also differs from the current spec's 186.

## How accuracy was checked
Summaries come from the `operationId`, the path, existing descriptions,
and the doc comments (`@operation_id`) and code in bitballoon's API
controllers. Where a doc comment was wrong, I followed the code:
- `updateSiteSnippet`'s comment says "Creates", but the action updates.
- `archiveAgentRunner` returns 202, but the archive runs synchronously,
so its description makes no "background" claim.
- `agentRunnerPullRequest`'s doc comment says the PR comes from the
latest completed session. It actually uses the run's own `result_diff`,
and both it and `agentRunnerCommitToBranch` queue the work in a
background worker. The descriptions now say so and point at the fields
to poll.

## Generated code
`make generate` was rerun:
- Go doc comments now use the summaries.
- The 4 responses gain a `Payload` field and `GetPayload()`, plus one
new model, `CreateAgentRunnerUploadURLOKBody`.
- No method signatures change, and the generated readers still accept an
empty body (EOF), so nothing breaks.

## Testing
- `make validate` passes, with only the existing unused `buildSetup`
warning.
- `make generate` and `go build ./go/...` pass.
- `go test ./...` passes.
- `npm test` (lint, prettier, docs build, unit) passes. Prettier made no
changes.

Rebased onto #671 (202 polling docs). Regenerating after the rebase
produced no diff.

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Co-authored-by: Sean Roberts <sean.roberts@netlify.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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