Document the experimental paginated templates endpoint

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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, so the API gains a paginated way to list templates.

The API's answer is a new endpoint, not a reshaped one. GET /api/templates returns the {data, pagination} envelope, while GET /api/email_templates keeps its bare-array contract untouched — that array is already published and parsed by SDKs and integrations, so reshaping it would break them. Only the list is duplicated: show, create, update and destroy stay on email_templates.

The new operation ships marked experimental: the backend change has not shipped yet and no Mailtrap SDK exposes the method. The experimental marking comes off, and GET /api/email_templates is marked deprecated, in a single later change — the new endpoint going stable is exactly what makes deprecating the old one fair to readers.

Changes

All in specs/templates.openapi.yml.

• New path GET /api/templates (operationId: getTemplates), returning {data: [EmailTemplateResponse], pagination: Pagination}. Documents the two behaviours that are easy to get wrong: a per_page above 100 is clamped rather than rejected, and a token past the last page returns an empty data array rather than an error.
• Marked experimental — a {% hint style="warning" %} block and an (Experimental) suffix on the summary, so the label is visible in the operation list and not only after opening the page. Hints in operation descriptions already have precedent in email-sending.openapi.yml and contacts.openapi.yml.
• token and per_page parameters, plus Pagination, RateLimitedResponse and the RateLimited response (150 requests per 10 seconds per API token, with the x-ratelimit-* headers).
• GET /api/email_templates now cross-references the new endpoint as the experimental option when response size matters. It is not marked deprecated yet.
• Plan-based limit noted on the templates tag, and a template_limit_reached example added to the create 422 alongside the existing validation-error example.

Decisions worth a reviewer's eye

• The components are copied, not invented. Pagination, RateLimitedResponse and RateLimited 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. I diffed them programmatically; they match. The response component is named RateLimited rather than campaigns' RATE_LIMITED to match this file's PascalCase responses.
• cURL samples only. No SDK has the method, 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 it. No Terraform sample either — the provider has no templates data source.
• 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 /api/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 — all 16, including the six new ones
• Pagination and RateLimitedResponse match specs/email-campaigns.openapi.yml in key names, order and nullability
• GitBook blocks balance: one {% hint %}, one {% endhint %}
• In the rendered GitBook preview, the experimental hint shows on GET /api/templates and the operation list shows the (Experimental) suffix

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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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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.

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In `@specs/templates.openapi.yml`:
- Around line 865-866: Update the response object schema around the properties
declaration to require both documented envelope fields, data and pagination, by
adding them to the schema’s required list while preserving their existing
property definitions.
- Line 858: Update the API token header in the code sample to reference the
MAILTRAP_API_KEY environment variable instead of the literal YOUR_API_KEY
placeholder, preserving the existing header format.
- Line 934: Remove the maximum: 100 constraint from the affected OpenAPI schema
so generated clients and validators allow values above 100 while the server
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