diff --git a/docs/api/openapi.yaml b/docs/api/openapi.yaml
index ad23edaa4..5c9cfe846 100644
--- a/docs/api/openapi.yaml
+++ b/docs/api/openapi.yaml
@@ -112,10 +112,32 @@ paths:
               schema:
                 $ref: "#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope"
         "429": &a5
-          description: Rate limit exceeded. The response carries `Retry-After` (whole seconds, rounded up — wait at least that
-            long before retrying), `X-RateLimit-Limit` (the bucket's cap), `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and
+          description: Rate limit exceeded. The response carries `Retry-After` (whole seconds, rounded up and never below 1 — wait
+            at least that long before retrying), `X-RateLimit-Limit` (the bucket's cap), `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and
             `X-RateLimit-Reset` (the reset instant, ISO-8601, not epoch seconds). Back off on `Retry-After` rather than
-            guessing.
+            guessing. A 429 raised by a ceiling that is not one of these buckets — a daily AI budget, an upstream
+            provider's own refusal relayed onward — carries none of them, because there is no bucket to describe.
+          headers:
+            Retry-After:
+              description: Whole seconds to wait before retrying. Rounded up, never below 1.
+              schema:
+                type: integer
+                minimum: 1
+            X-RateLimit-Limit:
+              description: Requests the bucket allows per window.
+              schema:
+                type: integer
+                minimum: 1
+            X-RateLimit-Remaining:
+              description: Requests left in the current window; 0 on a refusal.
+              schema:
+                type: integer
+                minimum: 0
+            X-RateLimit-Reset:
+              description: Instant the current window rolls over, ISO-8601 — not epoch seconds.
+              schema:
+                type: string
+                format: date-time
           content:
             application/json:
               schema:
@@ -15432,9 +15454,10 @@ paths:
         returns a `{ title, kind, documentDate }` DRAFT for the edit form. AI-consent / rate / budget gated (shares the
         per-user document-AI bucket with extract/summary/index — default 6/hour, operator-tunable via
         `DOCUMENT_AI_LIMIT_PER_HOUR`; a slot is only consumed when the request reaches the provider, and the 429 carries
-        the reset instant in `X-RateLimit-Reset` and `meta.retryAt`). WRITES NOTHING — never stages facts, never flips
-        status; the user reviews and saves. 422 (`documents.inbound.providerUnsupported`) with no provider configured.
-        Never interprets or diagnoses; the title is a neutral filing label."
+        `Retry-After`, the `X-RateLimit-Limit` / `-Remaining` / `-Reset` triple, and `meta.retryAt`). WRITES NOTHING —
+        never stages facts, never flips status; the user reviews and saves. 422
+        (`documents.inbound.providerUnsupported`) with no provider configured. Never interprets or diagnoses; the title
+        is a neutral filing label."
       parameters:
         - name: id
           in: path
@@ -19768,9 +19791,9 @@ paths:
               schema:
                 $ref: "#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope"
         "429":
-          description: More than 60 requests in a minute for this token — or, when no valid token was presented, from this client
-            IP. `meta.errorCode` = `ingest.rate_limited`, plus the standard `X-RateLimit-Remaining` /
-            `X-RateLimit-Reset` headers.
+          description: "More than 60 requests in a minute for this token — or, when no valid token was presented, from this client
+            IP. `meta.errorCode` = `ingest.rate_limited`, plus the standard rate-limit headers: `Retry-After` (whole
+            seconds, at least 1), `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset`."
           content:
             application/json:
               schema:
diff --git a/src/lib/openapi/routes/documents.ts b/src/lib/openapi/routes/documents.ts
index 81159f2b7..95d5d20d8 100644
--- a/src/lib/openapi/routes/documents.ts
+++ b/src/lib/openapi/routes/documents.ts
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ export const inboundDocumentPaths: NonNullable<ZodOpenApiObject["paths"]> = {
       tags: ["Documents"],
       summary: "Suggest filing metadata (drafts only)",
       description:
-        'Optional AI assist on an already-stored document. Runs ONE provider call over the stored original (VISION, empty body) or browser-OCR\'d text (TEXT, `application/json` `{ mode: "text", text }`, opt-in local OCR) and returns a `{ title, kind, documentDate }` DRAFT for the edit form. AI-consent / rate / budget gated (shares the per-user document-AI bucket with extract/summary/index — default 6/hour, operator-tunable via `DOCUMENT_AI_LIMIT_PER_HOUR`; a slot is only consumed when the request reaches the provider, and the 429 carries the reset instant in `X-RateLimit-Reset` and `meta.retryAt`). WRITES NOTHING — never stages facts, never flips status; the user reviews and saves. 422 (`documents.inbound.providerUnsupported`) with no provider configured. Never interprets or diagnoses; the title is a neutral filing label.',
+        'Optional AI assist on an already-stored document. Runs ONE provider call over the stored original (VISION, empty body) or browser-OCR\'d text (TEXT, `application/json` `{ mode: "text", text }`, opt-in local OCR) and returns a `{ title, kind, documentDate }` DRAFT for the edit form. AI-consent / rate / budget gated (shares the per-user document-AI bucket with extract/summary/index — default 6/hour, operator-tunable via `DOCUMENT_AI_LIMIT_PER_HOUR`; a slot is only consumed when the request reaches the provider, and the 429 carries `Retry-After`, the `X-RateLimit-Limit` / `-Remaining` / `-Reset` triple, and `meta.retryAt`). WRITES NOTHING — never stages facts, never flips status; the user reviews and saves. 422 (`documents.inbound.providerUnsupported`) with no provider configured. Never interprets or diagnoses; the title is a neutral filing label.',
       parameters: [
         { name: "id", in: "path", required: true, schema: { type: "string" } },
       ],
diff --git a/src/lib/openapi/routes/ingest.ts b/src/lib/openapi/routes/ingest.ts
index fb2cfb643..216619427 100644
--- a/src/lib/openapi/routes/ingest.ts
+++ b/src/lib/openapi/routes/ingest.ts
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ export const ingestPaths: NonNullable<ZodOpenApiObject["paths"]> = {
         },
         "429": {
           description:
-            "More than 60 requests in a minute for this token — or, when no valid token was presented, from this client IP. `meta.errorCode` = `ingest.rate_limited`, plus the standard `X-RateLimit-Remaining` / `X-RateLimit-Reset` headers.",
+            "More than 60 requests in a minute for this token — or, when no valid token was presented, from this client IP. `meta.errorCode` = `ingest.rate_limited`, plus the standard rate-limit headers: `Retry-After` (whole seconds, at least 1), `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset`.",
           content: { "application/json": { schema: errorEnvelope } },
         },
       },
diff --git a/src/lib/openapi/routes/shared.ts b/src/lib/openapi/routes/shared.ts
index 4018f4ab3..43b625a9e 100644
--- a/src/lib/openapi/routes/shared.ts
+++ b/src/lib/openapi/routes/shared.ts
@@ -239,8 +239,30 @@ export const stdResponses = {
   },
   "429": {
     description:
-      "Rate limit exceeded. The response carries `Retry-After` (whole seconds, rounded up — wait at least that long before retrying), `X-RateLimit-Limit` (the bucket's cap), `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset` (the reset instant, ISO-8601, not epoch seconds). Back off on `Retry-After` rather than guessing.",
+      "Rate limit exceeded. The response carries `Retry-After` (whole seconds, rounded up and never below 1 — wait at least that long before retrying), `X-RateLimit-Limit` (the bucket's cap), `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset` (the reset instant, ISO-8601, not epoch seconds). Back off on `Retry-After` rather than guessing. A 429 raised by a ceiling that is not one of these buckets — a daily AI budget, an upstream provider's own refusal relayed onward — carries none of them, because there is no bucket to describe.",
     content: { "application/json": { schema: errorEnvelope } },
+    // Declared rather than only described: a generated client gets a typed
+    // accessor for the field the description tells it to back off on.
+    headers: {
+      "Retry-After": {
+        description:
+          "Whole seconds to wait before retrying. Rounded up, never below 1.",
+        schema: { type: "integer" as const, minimum: 1 },
+      },
+      "X-RateLimit-Limit": {
+        description: "Requests the bucket allows per window.",
+        schema: { type: "integer" as const, minimum: 1 },
+      },
+      "X-RateLimit-Remaining": {
+        description: "Requests left in the current window; 0 on a refusal.",
+        schema: { type: "integer" as const, minimum: 0 },
+      },
+      "X-RateLimit-Reset": {
+        description:
+          "Instant the current window rolls over, ISO-8601 — not epoch seconds.",
+        schema: { type: "string" as const, format: "date-time" },
+      },
+    },
   },
 };