specification: API Commons Conventions
specificationVersion: '0.1'
generated: '2026-09-19'
method: searched
source: >-
  Searched every anonymously reachable Conduent surface (corporate site, Insights Hub, Knowledge
  Connection help site) for a developer reference documenting cross-cutting API semantics. None
  exists; no OpenAPI is published, so nothing can be derived either.
provider: Conduent
providerId: conduent
name: Conduent API Conventions
description: >-
  Conduent documents no cross-cutting API semantics anywhere a machine or an unauthenticated human
  can read them. This artifact records that as a measurement: every block below is "not published"
  against a named search, not an unchecked blank. It is NOT evidence of any convention, and no
  Idempotency pointer is emitted from it -- the scorer's idempotency dimension must read zero here,
  because a provider with no published write surface has published no replay protection.
auth:
  style: not published
  note: >-
    No authentication reference on any public surface. Knowledge Connection documents SAML 2.0 SSO
    for human login to tenant portals, which is not API authentication.
idempotency:
  coverage: none
  header: null
  scope: []
  retention: null
  note: >-
    No idempotency mechanism is documented. coverage is none rather than na because Conduent
    operates write surfaces (enrollment, payments disbursement, permit and claims processing) inside
    customer contracts -- they are simply not publicly specified.
pagination:
  style: not published
  params: []
  response_fields: []
field_expansion: not published
metadata: not published
request_id_tracing: not published
versioning:
  style: not published
  detail: lifecycle/conduent-lifecycle.yml
error_envelope:
  shape: not published
  rfc9457: false
  detail: No error reference is published; errors/ holds no problem-type catalog for this provider.
rate_limit_signaling:
  headers: []
  status_on_exhaustion: null
  detail: rate-limits/conduent-rate-limits.yml
  note: >-
    No published limits and no documented response headers. The existing rate-limits artifact
    records contract-scoped throttling with no public thresholds.
dry_run_mode:
  supported: false
  basis: not published
reversibility:
  grade: not published
  surfaces: []
  note: >-
    No reversal operation, window or policy is documented on any public Conduent surface, and there
    is no contract from which write operations could be enumerated. This is NOT `na`: Conduent runs
    consequential write surfaces (benefit disbursement, tolling charges, claims adjudication) whose
    reversal semantics certainly exist contractually. They are unpublished, which is a different
    finding from a read-only API having nothing to reverse. NEVER assert a window the docs do not
    state -- none are stated here, so none are recorded.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com