A scan sent the whole report to one call under an 8000-token ceiling and validated the reply against a 100-row envelope. A long multi-panel report lost everything either way: the reply stopped mid-row and failed to parse, which the person saw as "try a clearer photo", or it held more than 100 rows and the schema refused all of them. One malformed row refused the lot as well. Reasoning models made it worse, because the call sent no reasoning setting and OpenAI, Codex and Claude's 5 generation reason by default against the same output allowance. A PDF of more than one page is now rendered and read a page per call on every provider (up to 20 pages), as many reads as the run's deadline allows, and the pages are merged in order with a reading printed twice listed once. A photo, a one-page PDF on a provider that reads PDFs, and OCR'd text up to 4000 characters stay one read; longer text is split at line boundaries. Each read carries an explicit reasoning off, so a model that can stop reasoning does and one that cannot gets its minimum budget on top of the answer's. A reply cut at the output limit is detected from the finish reason (Codex's incomplete stream included), keeps the rows that closed before the cut and is named in the result instead of retried; when no read produced a row the run fails as labs.ocr.outputLimit. A provider failure after the first page keeps the pages already read. Rows are validated one by one, the row cap is 400 for the scan and the commit, and a report past it keeps its first 400 and says how many it had. The run settles what the provider reported it spent rather than the fixed reservation, so a page-by-page read still counts against the day's budget in full.
HealthLog API Spec
openapi.yaml is the OpenAPI 3.1 description for the HealthLog
Next.js API and the source of truth for the native iOS client's DTO
codegen. The file is generated: pnpm openapi:generate emits it
from the Zod registry under src/lib/openapi/ (registry.ts plus the
route modules in src/lib/openapi/routes/). Do not edit the YAML by
hand; the next generation overwrites it, and CI (openapi:check)
fails the build when the committed YAML drifts from the registry.
The MCP server is documented separately — it is a distinct contract over JSON-RPC, not part of the REST OpenAPI spec:
mcp-capabilities.md— the tool, resource, and prompt catalogue, the grounding contract, and the write model.mcp-skills.md— building a connector or skill on top of it.../self-hosting/mcp.md— enabling and connecting the surface (operator guide).
Preview locally
Open an interactive Redoc preview in your browser:
npx @redocly/cli preview docs/api/openapi.yaml
Generate static HTML for sharing:
npx @redocly/cli build-docs docs/api/openapi.yaml --output docs/api/index.html
Validate
npx @redocly/cli lint docs/api/openapi.yaml
The spec is expected to be lint-clean (errors = 0). Warnings such as
no-server-example.com for the localhost dev server are tolerated;
re-run the lint to see what it produces against the current file
before treating a warning as a regression.
Layout
info— title, description, andversionmirrored automatically frompackage.jsonat generation time. Never bump it by hand.servers—https://healthlog.example.comas the self-hosted placeholder plushttp://localhost:3000for local development.tags— domain groupings; the current set lives at the top of the generated file (Auth,Measurements,Medications,Mood,Analytics,Insights,Consent,Dashboard,Notifications,Devices,Export,Sync,Cycle,MeasurementReminders,Labs,Illness,Documents,Records,Admin,Meta,Retired).securitySchemes:-
bearerAuth—hlk_*API tokens. A scope grants what it names and nothing adjacent, so where a token comes from decides what it reaches:- a completed password / passkey / refresh exchange mints the
cookie-equivalent
["*"]token the native client carries; - a medication's own API-endpoint toggle mints
medication:ingestplusmedication:<id>:ingest, the pair/api/ingest/medicationgates on; POST /api/mcp/tokensmintshealth:read(optionally plushealth:write), audience-bound to/mcpand refused on REST writes;POST /api/tokens/measurementsmintsmeasurements:write, accepted byPOST /api/measurementsandPOST /api/measurements/batchonly, on the holder's own record only;POST /api/tokens/workoutsmintsworkouts:write, accepted byPOST /api/workouts/batchonly, on the holder's own record only; the workouts it writes carrysource: EXTERNAL;POST /api/tokens/documentsmintsdocuments:write, accepted byPOST /api/documents/inboundandGET /api/documents/inbound/sourceonly.
POST /api/tokensis not among them — that generic mint was removed in v1.30.17. The path still lists (GET) and revokes (DELETE /api/tokens/{id}) every token above, whichever surface issued it. - a completed password / passkey / refresh exchange mints the
cookie-equivalent
-
sessionCookie— HttpOnlyhealthlog_sessioncookie set by the password and passkey login flows. Used by the web app and any iOS client running inside a web view.
-
components.schemas— DTOs for the documented routes plus the underlying Prisma models (e.g.Measurement,Medication,MedicationIntakeEvent,MoodEntry,User,DashboardLayout,ApiEnvelope,ApiError).paths— the client-facing REST surface. Not everysrc/app/api/**/route.tsis in the contract: most/api/admin/*routes, the OAuth connect/callback legs, and the webhook surfaces are not documented here. TheRetiredtag lists removed paths that answer410 Gone.
Conventions
- Successful responses use the envelope
{ data, error: null }. - Error responses use the envelope
{ data: null, error: '<message>' }. - Pagination uses
limit+offsetquery parameters and ameta: { total, limit, offset }block on the response. - All timestamps are ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 (
format: date-time) in UTC. - IDs are CUIDs (opaque strings).
Updating the spec
When adding or changing routes:
- Update the relevant route handler under
src/app/api/**/route.ts. - Change the Zod schemas and their
.meta()registrations undersrc/lib/openapi/(registry entry plus the matching module insrc/lib/openapi/routes/). KeepoperationIdcamelCase and stable; the iOS codegen keys off it. - Run
pnpm openapi:generateand commit the regeneratedopenapi.yamlalongside the schema change. CI'sopenapi:checkfails on drift. - Never edit the YAML directly and never bump
info.versionby hand; the version followspackage.jsonat generation time.