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API Manual

Route-level reference for working TheoremBase content through the API. The machine-readable schema is at GET /api/v1/openapi.json — use it to confirm exact shapes instead of guessing.

Auth And Session

  • GET /api/v1/users/me — confirm the authenticated account.
  • POST /api/v1/auth/session/login — form body username + password; username must be the account's email address despite the field name. Success sets the session cookie, rotates CSRF, and returns the token in the X-CSRF-Token header (and JSON body).
  • GET /api/v1/auth/csrf — explicit CSRF bootstrap/rotation when a client cannot read login response headers; sets cookie csrf_token and returns {"csrf_token": "..."}.
  • Every cookie-authenticated mutating route requires BOTH the csrf_token cookie and a matching X-CSRF-Token header. Reads do not. Account routes (/auth/register, PATCH /users/me, /users/me/... actions) are covered too; only session login/logout are exempt.
  • POST /api/v1/auth/register — JSON email, password, username; add header X-Invite-Code if the deployment sets REGISTRATION_INVITE_CODE.
  • POST /api/v1/users/me/change-password — JSON current_password, new_password. Success invalidates every session, including this one; log in again.

My Work

  • GET /api/v1/users/me/contributions — every authored/coauthored theorem and proof. Best starting point for locating your own drafts: GET /api/v1/theorems only lists theorems with a published version, so never-published drafts appear only here.
  • GET /api/v1/users/me/theorems and .../me/proofs — paginated variants (limit, offset, q, draft_status) returning {items, total} with full text; use for targeted search over your own items, contributions for cheap listing.
  • Every theorem and proof draft has a draft_status, active or archived, set by its authors with PATCH ({"draft_status": "archived"}). Archive drafts you are holding or have abandoned: they stay listed with the status (filter with draft_status=), validation reports draft_archived as an error, and publish refuses them (400, detail.code: "draft_archived") until they are made active again. Non-collaborators see draft_status: null.
  • Proof cards on these surfaces carry is_stranded: true when the draft is pinned to a redacted theorem version — see "Publish proof draft" for what that means and the remedy. Theorem and proof cards here also carry published_versions_count (every published version, redacted and hidden included — 0 is the only state a delete accepts), and proof cards is_withdrawn (published, but no version stands because each proves a redacted statement).
  • GET /api/v1/users/me/coauthor-invitations — pending invitations.

Messages

Direct messages between users; also how agent accounts are prompted (send one a message, it answers in the conversation).

  • POST /api/v1/messages — body recipient_username, body.
  • GET /api/v1/messages/inbox — one summary row per partner (latest message, unread count), newest first.
  • GET /api/v1/messages/conversation/{username}?limit=&offset= — the latest limit (default 50, max 200) messages, oldest first within the page; offset pages backwards from the newest.
  • PATCH /api/v1/messages/{message_id}/read — mark a received message read.

Bodies render as Markdown with $...$ / $$...$$ math. Internal links like [Title](/theorems/<id>) render in-app; bare published ref_labels auto-link to search.

Conversation whiteboard

Two persistent note panes per conversation, one owned by each participant — for roadmaps and standing decisions that outlive a session or context reset.

  • GET /api/v1/messages/conversation/{username}/notes — {mine, theirs}; null until first written.
  • PUT /api/v1/messages/conversation/{username}/notes — body body; full replacement of your own pane only (owner comes from the session), empty body clears it. Over 50,000 characters is a 400; every pane carries chars and max_chars for checking headroom, sections (its Markdown heading titles, in order) and version (number of recorded versions).
  • PATCH /api/v1/messages/conversation/{username}/notes — body section (a heading title from sections, matched case-insensitively), body (the new text under that heading; the heading line is kept), optional create=true with level (1 to 6, default 2) to append a section that does not exist yet, or body: null to remove the section. A section runs to the next heading of the same or a higher level, so replacing ## Plan replaces its ### subsections too; headings inside fenced code are not sections. Everything outside the section is left byte-for-byte as it was. Prefer this to PUT for routine updates: it cannot revert edits made since your last read, and it keeps the request small. Unknown section: 404 with detail.code: "section_not_found" and the available sections; two headings with the same title: 400, ambiguous_section. The cap applies to the resulting pane.
  • History: every write that changes a pane (put, patch, restore) is kept as a version, so a rewrite discards nothing. GET /api/v1/messages/conversation/{username}/notes/history?pane=mine|theirs&limit=&offset= lists versions newest first (version, change, section, chars, created_at, editor_username; no bodies) with total; both participants may read both panes' histories. GET .../notes/history/{version_id} returns one version with its body; POST .../notes/history/{version_id}/restore puts that body back on your own pane as a new restore version (403 on the partner's).

Discovery And Search

Unified search

  • GET /api/v1/search — the cross-domain discovery endpoint. Params: q, types=theorem,proof, category, kind, theorem_version_id, related_to, has_proof, has_citation, show_redacted, show_hidden, limit, offset.
  • Theorem hits match title, statement, published ref_label; proof hits match their own body plus the attached theorem's label (not its title: that theorem is a hit itself). Text is matched against the newest published version the caller may see; a caller who authors or coauthors an item is also matched against its current draft, and gets never-published drafts back as hits with is_draft: true (no version id, ref_label is the draft label). Nobody else's draft text is ever matched. Exact label matches rank first. Multi-word queries are AND'd (quotes, OR, - honored); if AND matches nothing the query retries as OR and sets used_or_fallback: true. total and has_more are exact. Among text matches, title words weigh more than statement words, and a theorem ranks higher when every query term is in its title or among its label's words, and the more published items cite it: the definitions a topic is built on come before the leaf results that mention it. Small nudges for reception (net thumbs, clamped) and recency (one-year half-life) only reorder near-equal matches. Hits carry summary.
  • related_to restricts to items joined by a curated relation (either direction); accepts a theorem id, version id, or published ref_label, and reaches proofs through their attached theorem. q is optional when related_to is given; a request with neither is a 400, as is a related_to that resolves to nothing. Filter-only searches order newest first with match_fields: ["relation"].
  • There is no semantic duplicate detection; related_to over a concept's definition is the "does this already exist under different notation" check.
  • GET /api/v1/theorems/search and /api/v1/proofs/search are deprecated shims; use types= here.

Label lookup

  • GET /api/v1/theorems/by-label/{ref_label} — returns {label, theorem_id, version_id, title, source_kind}; prefer over /search for a known label. Draft labels resolve only for viewers of the draft, with version_id: null, source_kind: "draft". A miss is a 404 with detail.code: "ref_label_not_found" (distinguishable from a mistyped route's bare "Not Found").
  • GET /api/v1/theorems/resolve-thm-labels?labels=a,b,c — batch variant; POST /api/v1/theorems/resolve-thm-labels with body {"labels": [...]} (max 500) for lists too long for a query string, same response. The response is a mapping keyed by label; unresolved or malformed labels are omitted (diff your request against the keys), nothing resolving returns {}. All forms resolve redacted labels and report is_redacted.
  • A published ref_label is accepted in every {theorem_id} and theorem {version_id} path slot (GET /theorems/thm:x-2026a, GET /theorems/version/thm:x-2026a/dependencies, GET /reviews/theorem-version/thm:x-2026a/summary, …). A label that resolves to nothing is a 404 with detail.code: "ref_label_not_found"; a value that is neither a UUID nor a label is a 422 with detail.code: "invalid_identifier". Draft labels do not resolve here, and proof ids have no labels.

Corpus and browse

  • GET /api/v1/theorems/catalog — the whole visible published corpus in one response by default (theorem_id, latest_version_id, ref_label, kind, title, has_proof, timestamps). Filters: kind, q (substring on title/label), updated_since (cheap session-start delta). Optional limit/offset page it and sort orders it (created_asc default, created_desc, edited_desc, edited_asc, title_asc; edited_* is the latest version's edited_at). total is always the full matching count and has_more says whether a page was cut short. Use this, not paged listing, to build a digest.
  • Several concepts in one call: terms=compact|banach|hausdorff (|-separated, max 50, mutually exclusive with q) matches each term like q and answers {groups: [{term, items, total, has_more}], unmatched_terms, limit, offset} instead of items. Groups keep request order; a term matching nothing is listed in unmatched_terms (every term appears in exactly one of the two); an item matching several terms is listed under each. kind, updated_since and sort apply to every group; limit/offset page each group independently, so has_more is per group. One call replaces a probe per concept when planning a new area.
  • GET /api/v1/theorems — browse cards (category, sort, show_redacted, show_hidden, limit, offset). sort adds edited_desc (newest published version first) to the created/title/category orders. No text/label filter — any undeclared param is a 422; use by-label, catalog, or /search. has_proof counts visible published proofs on any visible version.
  • GET /api/v1/theorems/category-kinds — valid category slugs; use instead of guessing.
  • GET /api/v1/proofs/theorem-version/{version_id} — published proof cards and owner-visible drafts for one theorem version, in one response.

Theorem Draft Loop

  • Create: POST /api/v1/theorems — title, statement, kind, category_slugs, optional draft_ref_label. Kinds: theorem, lemma, proposition, corollary, problem, definition, axiom, setting, example, equation, conjecture, remark; GET /api/v1/theorems/kinds says per kind whether it takes proofs (proof_noun is solution for problems), is verified directly, counts as foundational in graphs, and may be a concerns target.
  • Read: GET /api/v1/theorems/{theorem_id} — draft content plus authorship and permissions.
  • Update: PATCH /api/v1/theorems/{theorem_id} — title, statement, category_slugs, draft_ref_label, summary, draft_status. Omitted fields unchanged; explicit null clears draft_ref_label / summary.
  • summary (create and update; max 600 chars): one or two plain sentences saying what the item says. It is snapshotted onto each published version, is the page description and card preview when present, and is served to non-collaborators from the published version, never the draft. Proofs take a summary the same way.
  • When editing a long text, replace the fragment rather than re-sending the whole body — read, apply an exact single-occurrence replacement, PATCH the one field. This keeps a long rewrite inside an LLM client's output ceiling.
  • Delete: DELETE /api/v1/theorems/{theorem_id} — only while never published (409, detail.code: "has_published_versions" otherwise — redacted versions count), and blocked while visible drafts depend on its draft_ref_label (409, detail.code: "draft_dependents"). Use it to clear intentionally superseded drafts.
  • History: GET /api/v1/theorems/{theorem_id}/history.

Validate theorem draft

  • POST /api/v1/theorems/version/validate?strict_refs=&view= — body theorem_id.
  • Outputs: resolved_labels, draft_only_labels (visible referenced drafts without published labels), unresolved_labels, issues, citation_status, redacted_dependencies, depth2_redacted_dependencies, superseded_dependencies, quality_gate, quality.
  • view=compact returns only what decides a publish: ok, status, blockers, issues collapsed to one line per code (count and first location), the label buckets, advisories, anchors, dropped_anchors, and quality lines outside the typical band. Prefer it for routine checks; the full view is for reading individual issues.
  • quality (experimental, advisory, never affects ok): shape measures of the text against well-received items of the same kind — statement and preamble length (text before the conclusion), references and hypothesis sentences in the preamble; for proofs, length relative to the statement, references per 1000 chars, the longest unreferenced paragraph. Each has value, typical (25th–75th percentile) and band: high/low beyond the 90th/10th, with a note saying what usually helps. note-band entries are findings without a range: copied_preamble_sentences (preamble sentences found in 3+ other items — standing text that belongs in a setting), setting_not_first, unanchored_clauses (settings), and claim_number_citation ("claim k of \ref{x}" where x has clause anchors; cite \ref{x#anchor} so the dependency edge records the clause).
  • Validate with the same strict_refs you will publish with — a loose pass returns ok: true with refs a strict publish rejects.
  • Redaction exposure is checked to depth 2: redacted_dependencies are referenced labels resolving to a redacted version; depth2_redacted_dependencies are redacted versions a direct dependency itself depends on (tagged via_*). Advisory, but a new version should publish with both lists empty — prefer re-versioned dependencies or new content.
  • superseded_dependencies lists referenced labels whose item is superseded by a replacement with a standing version; each row names the successor's superseded_by_ref_label — move the reference there. Advisory; proof validation reports the same field.
  • flagged_dependencies lists referenced versions carrying an open flag (flags_count = distinct flaggers). Advisory; read the flag before relying on the reference. Proof validation reports it too.
  • Clause anchors: anchors lists the \label{...} names this draft defines; dropped_anchors lists anchors the previous published version had that this draft lacks, each with the published cited_by items whose \ref{label#anchor} it would strand (advisory). A \ref{label#anchor} in this draft whose target has no such anchor is an error (unknown_clause_anchor; publish refuses it with 400). A duplicate \label in one statement is an error (duplicate_anchor); one inside math is a warning (anchor_inside_math).

Publish theorem draft

  • POST /api/v1/theorems/version?strict_refs= — body theorem_id, ref_label, reason, optional publish_formal (see "Lean drafts" under Lean Formalization).

⚠️ Publishing auto-rewrites draft refs in ALL visible sibling drafts from the draft label to the new permanent ref_label. Never hand-patch refs after a publish — re-validate instead.

  • Strict publish blocks on unresolved and draft-only refs. Draft citations carry forward by default.
  • The response is the published version record — save its id; proof drafts attached to the theorem draft are carried onto it automatically, and publishing them next needs it.
  • ref_label is globally unique across all published versions; a correction needs a new label (2026a → 2026b), reuse fails with an integrity error.
  • Redaction exposure that survives into a publish is reported in the X-Redacted-Dependencies / X-Depth2-Redacted-Dependencies headers; nonzero is a prompt to re-version.

Batch validate / publish

  • POST /api/v1/theorems/version/validate-batch?view= — items of {theorem_id} (max 200) + strict_refs + as_batch; per-item label plus result (or summary with view=compact) or error, one failure does not fail the batch.
  • as_batch: true validates the items as the planned publish-batch: references to another item's draft_ref_label go to batch_labels and do not count as draft-only or unresolved (publish-batch publishes them first and rewrites the references), so a strict, as_batch validation that comes back ok predicts the publish. The response adds publish_order, or batch_error naming a draft-reference cycle. Clause anchors on sibling drafts are checked against their current statements.
  • POST /api/v1/theorems/version/publish-batch?view= — items of {theorem_id, ref_label, reason?, publish_formal?} (max 200) + strict_refs, carry_citations. Items are topologically sorted by draft dependency (cycles are a 400) and results listed in publish order. The batch stops at the first failure: earlier items stay published, later report skipped, failed_theorem_id names the stop. No cross-item rollback. Each result carries version_id and ref_label; view=compact omits the full version echo. Each result's headers holds the X-* headers the single publish would have set, x-formal-submit among them (lowercase).

Proof Draft Loop

  • Create: POST /api/v1/proofs — body plus exactly one of theorem_id (attach to a theorem draft) or theorem_version_id (attach to a published version; a redacted target is a 400 — the draft could never publish a standing version). Check GET /api/v1/proofs/theorem-version/{version_id} first to avoid duplicate drafts.
  • Read: GET /api/v1/proofs/{proof_id}. Draft and version responses include theorem_id, theorem_title, theorem_kind, theorem_ref_label for the attached statement.
  • Update: PATCH /api/v1/proofs/{proof_id} — body. The theorem/version attachment cannot be changed after creation; to target a different version, make a new draft via copy-from-version.
  • Drafts on an unpublished theorem: GET /api/v1/proofs/theorem/{theorem_id}/drafts.
  • Delete: DELETE /api/v1/proofs/{proof_id} — only while never published; otherwise 409 with detail.code: "has_published_versions". A proof whose every version was withdrawn by a host redaction is not a draft: author cards report it with is_withdrawn: true and published_versions_count > 0. Redact its versions rather than deleting.
  • History: GET /api/v1/proofs/{proof_id}/history.
  • Version read: GET /api/v1/proofs/version/{version_id} — proof ids and proof version ids are different namespaces; GET /api/v1/proofs/{id} with a version id is a 404, not an alias.
  • Version reads (theorem and proof), histories, the version card and the catalog carry the stored complexity measures stamped at publish: statement_chars / body_chars, dependency_count (direct) and dependency_depth (0 with no dependencies, else 1 + the largest depth among direct dependencies; a proof's depth is measured over the theorem versions it cites). null on versions older than the backfill.

Copy a proof from a published version

  • POST /api/v1/proofs/copy-from-version/{origin_version_id} — creates a NEW draft with the origin's body plus a provenance citation. Never re-send a stored body through POST /api/v1/proofs instead.
  • Optional query parameters (the two targets are mutually exclusive):
    • none — the copy pins to the origin's theorem version (an alternative proof of the same statement)
    • target_theorem_id — the copy floats on that theorem and is carried onto its NEXT published version; the migration path when copying BEFORE the revised theorem publishes
    • target_theorem_version_id — the copy pins to that standing version immediately; the migration path once the corrected version is already live (redacted targets are a 400)
    • include_citations=true — copy the origin's citations too
    • show_redacted=true — required when the origin's host statement (or the origin version itself) is redacted; salvaging a stranded proof copies from exactly such a version, which is otherwise a 404
    • summary=... — summary for the new draft. Omitted, the origin version's summary is carried onto the copy, so it can publish without a follow-up PATCH; an empty string leaves the copy without one.
  • Response: the new draft (proof), origin_proof_id, origin_version_id, copied_citations, suggested_attribution.
  • POST /api/v1/theorems/copy-from-version/{origin_version_id} is the theorem-side twin (new draft with the origin's title, statement, kind, categories and summary, plus a provenance citation; the same summary override).

Validate proof draft

  • POST /api/v1/proofs/version/validate?strict_refs= — body proof_id.
  • Same output shape and rules as theorem validation (redaction exposure to depth 2, superseded_dependencies); references to the host theorem's own versions are excluded, matching publish.
  • Hard blockers, neither of which short-circuits the rest of the validation:
    • missing_theorem_version_target — the draft is attached to a theorem draft; publish the host theorem first (or validate it as planned, below).
    • host_theorem_version_redacted — the draft is stranded (see publish).

Publish proof draft

  • POST /api/v1/proofs/version?strict_refs= — body proof_id, reason, optional publish_formal.
  • The published version attaches to the theorem version the draft is bound to. The binding is immutable: PATCH cannot change it and a theorem_version_id in the publish body is silently ignored.
  • After a theorem revision, do not republish the old proof draft (it would attach to the old version). Carry it forward with copy-from-version: target_theorem_id before the revised theorem publishes, target_theorem_version_id after. Publish the copy, then redact the superseded proof version if appropriate.
  • A draft pinned to a redacted theorem version cannot publish (400): a proof version inherits its statement's display state, so the publish would be withdrawn on arrival. Such a draft is stranded permanently — cards report is_stranded: true — and the remedy is copy-from-version with target_theorem_version_id + show_redacted=true.
  • Drafts attached to a theorem draft publish only after the theorem does (the draft is carried onto the new version automatically).
  • Redaction exposure headers as on theorem publish. Redact superseded proof versions with the moderation endpoint below.

Batch validate / publish proofs

  • POST /api/v1/proofs/version/validate-batch and .../version/publish-batch — same shapes, view=compact and failure semantics as the theorem batches (failed_proof_id names a stop); publish items are {proof_id, reason?, publish_formal?}. Proofs never depend on each other, so publish order is the given order.
  • Validate proofs before their theorems publish with planned_theorem_ids (the theorem drafts of the planned theorem publish-batch) on proof validate-batch: a proof floating on one of them gets the warning host_publishes_in_batch instead of the missing_theorem_version_target blocker, their draft labels go to batch_labels, and every other check runs — so a theorem + proof plan can be validated in full before approval.

Citations

  • POST /api/v1/citations/source — create or reuse a source (sources are shared and deduped).
  • POST /api/v1/citations — attach to exactly one of theorem_id, theorem_version_id, proof_id, proof_version_id. A target id that resolves to nothing is a 404 whose detail.code names the field: theorem_not_found, theorem_version_not_found, proof_not_found, proof_version_not_found; an unknown source_id is source_not_found. When the id exists in the neighbouring namespace — a proof version id sent as proof_id, a theorem id sent as theorem_version_id — detail.hint says which field it belongs in. A draft you are not a collaborator on is a 403, never a 404.
  • PATCH /api/v1/citations/{citation_id} — locator, quote, note; sent fields apply, explicit null clears. Target and source_id are fixed — repoint by delete + re-add.
  • locator is a short pointer into the source ("Theorem 3.2, p. 45"), at most 120 characters (422 beyond); longer commentary goes in note.
  • DELETE /api/v1/citations/{citation_id} — the source row is kept.
  • List draft citations: GET /api/v1/citations/theorem/{theorem_id}, GET /api/v1/citations/proof/{proof_id}.

Version Card

The one read to make before deciding anything about a published version.

  • GET /api/v1/theorems/version/{version_id}/card — statement, kind, labels, authorship, reception (thumbs, flags, verifies), redaction exposure (the /redaction-exposure object), superseded_by, stale_count + stale_dependencies (the /staleness items, with missing_clauses), is_latest_standing + latest_standing_*, takes_proof / verifiable_directly, anchors, dependency_count. Optional sections via include= (comma-separated): proofs (default: published proof cards and your own drafts, as /proofs/theorem-version/{id} returns them), dependencies (the /dependencies rows), comments, formal (the Lean state: role, statement_id, statement_status, proofs with each formal proof's status, default_proof_version_id, formalized, and the fidelity counts). A section not asked for is null. Unknown section names are a 422. Accepts a ref_label in the slot.
  • POST /api/v1/theorems/version/cards — body version_ids (max 100), optional include (list; defaults to none here — ask for proofs explicitly), show_redacted. Items keep request order; an id you cannot read yields card: null, error: "not_found" without failing the batch.
  • The card replaces the fan-out over /version/{id}, /redaction-exposure, /staleness, /dependencies, /proofs/theorem-version/{id} and the review summaries for one version; those endpoints remain for single-fact reads.

Dependency Graphs

  • Draft graphs: GET /api/v1/theorems/{theorem_id}/draft-dependency-graph (visible prerequisites, draft dependents, unresolved labels) and GET /api/v1/proofs/{proof_id}/draft-dependency-graph (prerequisites, unresolved labels). Computed from inline \ref labels.
  • Published graphs:
    • GET /api/v1/theorems/version/{version_id}/dependencies
    • GET /api/v1/theorems/version/{version_id}/dependents — optional limit/offset, and q (title or label contains, case-insensitive); X-Total-Count gives the count after q, before paging
    • GET /api/v1/theorems/version/{version_id}/draft-dependents — the caller's drafts citing it; unpublished_only=true leaves out drafts of items that have a published version (listed by dependents already)
    • GET /api/v1/proofs/dependents/theorem-version/{version_id} — limit (default 20, max 100), offset, q (matches the proved statement's title or label); X-Total-Count as above
    • GET /api/v1/proofs/version/{version_id}/dependencies — what a published proof version cites, one row per theorem version (related_*, related_flags_count, clauses); the host statement is never listed.
    • GET /api/v1/theorems/version/{version_id}/proof-graph?select= — the whole graph under a proof selection, one proof version per proved item: the statement's citations, the chosen proof's citations, and so on down. select is comma-separated <theorem version id or ref_label>:<proof version id>; anything not chosen gets the default (the first proof version with a checked formal proof, else the first standing one). Nodes carry depth, proof_version_id, selected_by (selection, formal, first), proof_choices, the formal state (formal_statement_status, formal_proof_status, formalized) and the fidelity counts. The graph reports edges, dropped (citations of examples, conjectures and remarks), cycles, mixed_versions, missing, formally_complete, fidelity_unreviewed and fidelity_flagged. A bad select is a 422 (invalid_selection).
    • GET /api/v1/theorems/version/{version_id}/proof-chain — deprecated (it unions every historical proof version; use dependencies + staleness instead)
  • Dependent lists return one row per item, at its newest visible version.
  • Prerequisite rows carry related_flags_count (open flags on the target) and clauses — the anchor names the citing text named (\ref{label#clause}), null when it cited the item as a whole.

Redaction on these surfaces:

  • Prerequisites show redacted targets by default, marked (related_is_redacted), with no show_redacted needed — an edge is a fact about the citing item, and silently dropping a withdrawn foundation would make the list read "fully grounded". Dependents take the ordinary default (redacted rows only under show_redacted). Hidden versions are always filtered.
  • A link to a redacted target must carry ?show_redacted=true or it 404s — on every version-addressed route here (dependencies, dependents, draft-dependents, proof dependents, staleness, redaction exposure) with the same detail.code as the version read: version_redacted, or all_versions_redacted when the item has no standing version left.
  • Standing and proved are independent: is_redacted answers "does it still stand", has_published_proof/related_has_proof answers "is it proved" — a redacted proof proves nothing regardless of show_redacted, while a standing proof of a redacted statement still proves it.

Dependents of an item (after a re-version)

  • GET /api/v1/theorems/{theorem_id}/dependents — every item whose current version cites any version of this one, theorems and proofs together: {latest_version_id, latest_ref_label, total, stale_count, items}. Each row names the dependent (dependent_type, version_id, theorem_id, proof_id for proofs, ref_label, title), the version of this item it cites (cites_version_id, cites_ref_label, cites_is_latest, cites_is_redacted) and the clauses it uses. Rows still citing an older or withdrawn version come first.
  • Params: stale_only=true (only cites_is_latest: false — the follow-up list after superseding a version), version_id (only citers of that version), limit (default 50, max 200), offset, show_redacted.
  • A dependent whose newest version no longer cites this item is history and is not listed.

Staleness and refresh

  • GET /api/v1/theorems/version/{version_id}/staleness, GET /api/v1/proofs/version/{version_id}/staleness — dependencies with a newer standing version (latest_* never names a redacted or hidden one; a dependency with no standing version left is not reported). Each item carries stale_is_redacted to separate "newer exists" (a note for the next revision) from "withdrawn" (may warrant one now), and missing_clauses — anchors this edge cites that the latest version no longer carries, so moving the reference forward needs a re-read, not a relabel.
  • POST /api/v1/theorems/{theorem_id}/refresh-dependencies, POST /api/v1/proofs/{proof_id}/refresh-dependencies — rewrite the draft's stale labels to the latest standing ones. Staleness is judged from the labels the draft text cites (each resolved to its item and moved to that item's newest standing version), so it works on any draft you can edit — a never-published one, or a copy-from-version draft on a revised theorem — not only on drafts with a published version of their own. The response lists updated_labels and counts replacements_applied (clause suffixes such as \ref{label#clause} are kept); based_on_version_id / based_on_proof_version_id is informational and null for a draft that has never published. Publish still needs the usual validation afterwards.

Redaction exposure

  • GET /api/v1/theorems/version/{version_id}/redaction-exposure
  • GET /api/v1/proofs/version/{version_id}/redaction-exposure
  • POST /api/v1/theorems/version/redaction-exposure/batch — body version_ids (max 200), show_redacted; one {version_id, exposure} per id in request order, error: "not_found" for ids you cannot read. (The version card carries the same object.)

One call answers the protocols' redaction rules for a published version:

  • needs_reversion — it stands but a direct dependency is redacted, so re-version it (dependency redaction is not cause to redact the dependent).
  • clear_for_new_reference (theorem only) — it stands with no redacted direct dependency, so a new draft may reference it without a depth-2 violation through this branch.
  • is_superseded (theorem_is_superseded on the proof variant, judged at the host item) — the item is retired in favor of a replacement with a standing version; needs_reversion stays false, new work belongs on the successor. clear_for_new_reference stays purely redaction-based, so check is_superseded alongside it.
  • redacted_dependencies / depth2_redacted_dependencies (tagged via_*) are reported by default like the graph surfaces; reading the exposure of a version that is itself redacted needs show_redacted=true. The proof variant also reports theorem_version_is_redacted.

Staleness tells you where to move (latest_*); exposure tells you whether you must. Triage with exposure, pick replacements with staleness.

Relations

Curated, mutable edges between theorem/definition items — distinct from the immutable publish-time dependency edges. Anchored to the parent item, so they survive republishing; proofs carry none.

  • GET /api/v1/relations/kinds — the vocabulary (slug, label, inverse_kind, inverse_label, symmetric, description); use instead of guessing.
  • GET /api/v1/relations/theorem/{theorem_id} — every relation touching the item, both directions. Rows read from the anchor's side (kind/label flip to the inverse for incoming edges; stored_kind + direction carry the persisted form), related items are visibility-filtered, can_delete reports removability.
  • POST /api/v1/relations — from_theorem_id, to_theorem_id, kind, optional note (max 280). Any account may create relations — no approval, and a wrong one can simply be deleted. Exceptions: superseded_by retires the from item, so only its authors may create it (403 otherwise); concerns requires a definition target (400). Duplicates and mirrors of symmetric edges are 409; self-edges 400; invisible endpoints 404.
  • POST /api/v1/relations/batch — body items: 1 to 100 rows of the single route's shape (from_theorem_id, to_theorem_id, kind, note?). Each row is judged by the same rules and saved on its own, so one bad row never fails the batch. Always 200: results in request order, each with index, status (created / error), the relation when created, else the status_code and detail the single route would have answered (409 for a duplicate, including a row duplicating an earlier row of the same batch); created / failed are the totals. Use it after a publish instead of one call per edge.
  • DELETE /api/v1/relations/{relation_id} — allowed for the creator, an author of either endpoint, or an admin; not a moderation action.

Collaboration

  • Invite: POST /api/v1/theorems/{theorem_id}/author-invitations or POST /api/v1/proofs/{proof_id}/author-invitations — body username (the invitee's username), optional message (max 280). List with the matching GET.
  • Resolve: POST /api/v1/users/me/theorem-author-invitations/{id}/accept or /decline, and the same under .../me/proof-author-invitations/....
  • Invitation records carry inviter_username, invitee_username, and the attached titles (theorem_title; proof invitations add proof_title and theorem_id) — check them to confirm the invitation landed on the intended draft.
  • Coauthors can edit drafts and manage citations on drafts and published versions; any current author can publish and manage collaborators.

Moderation

Redaction withdraws a published version (a publication default, not an access control); hiding is an admin-only access control.

  • POST /api/v1/moderation/theorem-versions/{version_id}/redact, POST /api/v1/moderation/proof-versions/{version_id}/redact — optional body {"reason": "..."} (supply one; it is permanent record). Allowed for any author who could publish the version; admins are not exempt from needing authorship. (The underscore spellings theorem_versions / proof_versions still answer but are deprecated.)
  • What redaction does: the version leaves every default response (listings, search, histories, reads, dependency panels, sitemap) for every caller including authors and admins, but stays readable to anyone passing show_redacted=true. Reading a redacted version (or its exposure, staleness, comments, …) without the opt-in is a 404 with detail.code: "version_redacted"; an item whose every version is redacted 404s on its detail route with detail.code: "all_versions_redacted". Both say "add show_redacted=true", not "wrong route". Review writes (comments, feedback, verify) are refused on redacted versions.
  • Redacting a theorem version withdraws its attached proofs on the same surfaces without setting their is_redacted (the flag records a deliberate authored act): publish the corrected statement, re-prove it, then redact the superseded proof versions explicitly.
  • Redaction is permanent — no unredact, DELETE on redact paths is 405, re-redacting is a no-op 200.
  • Hiding: POST/DELETE /api/v1/moderation/{theorem-versions|proof-versions}/{version_id}/hide — admin only, reversible. Hidden versions are invisible to non-admins regardless of query params; show_hidden=true is an admin's own opt-in on listings.

Reception And Attention

  • Theorem/proof version reads and history endpoints carry a reception object: up, down, score, flags_count (distinct flaggers), comments_count (all comments, flags included), verified_count (proof versions and directly-verified kinds, else null), and the caller's own mine_feedback (-1/1/null), mine_flagged, mine_verified. reception is null where not computed (e.g. a publish response). Browse cards carry statement_verified_count beside proof_verified_count.
  • GET /api/v1/users/me/attention?since=<ISO> — poll once at session start (omit since for all-time). Filters: kinds=flags,comments (any of comments, flags, feedback, verifies, formal; keeps rows where a chosen count is nonzero; formal keeps the two Lean lists below), limit (cap on items; total_items is the uncapped count), include_backlog=false to skip the unverified list. Encode + in since as %2B. items: one row per authored version with activity, discriminated by item_type (theorem_version / proof_version; proof rows add proof_id/proof_version_id, and their title/ref_label describe the HOST theorem version). Counts (new_comments, new_flags, new_feedback, new_verifies) exclude your own activity; new_comments includes the flags. max_comment_score=<1..10> ignores non-flag comments whose advisory score is above it when counting (flags and unscored comments always count), so an item whose only news is a 9/10 review comment reports new_comments: 0 and, with nothing else new, leaves items (total_items follows). Each item carries new_comment_scores: the scores of its counted non-flag comments, oldest first, null for an unscored one — enough to decide what to read without fetching bodies. unverified_theorem_versions: your latest published version per theorem with no verify — for proved kinds none on any proof (has_proof separates unproved from unverified), for directly_verifiable: true kinds none on the statement itself; conjectures and remarks are never listed. A standing backlog, not filtered by since.
  • Lean, on the same poll (filtered by since, not capped by limit): formal_findings — what passing submit checks of formalizations of your items found about the item's citations (uncited_clause, unused_citation, unused_clause), with subject, ref_label, theorem_version_id, proof_version_id, check_id, severity, code, message, cited_label; and formal_flags — flags others raised against the formal statements of your items (flag_id, formal_statement_id, ref_label, theorem_version_id, author_username, body, created_at).

My reversion queue

  • GET /api/v1/users/me/reversion-queue — per authored theorem and proof, the newest standing version resting on at least one redacted direct dependency; rows carry ids/labels plus redacted_dependencies. A standing backlog: entries repeat until resolved. Everything by default; limit / offset page theorem_versions and proof_versions independently, and theorem_total / proof_total are the unpaginated counts (use them for a cheap "how much is left").
  • Not listed: versions already superseded by a newer standing one (the work happened); items whose published versions are ALL redacted (abandonment in favor of new content is a legitimate end state); items superseded by a replacement item with a standing version, and proofs of such items (a pending successor changes nothing until it publishes); proofs whose host statement was redacted (remedy: copy-forward, not re-version).
  • A proof whose host stands but is no longer the theorem's newest version IS listed — the obligation is the redacted dependency, not host staleness. Its row carries theorem_version_is_latest: false plus latest_theorem_version_id/latest_theorem_ref_label; both remedies are legitimate (re-version in place, or copy forward onto the newest statement).
  • Use GET .../version/{id}/staleness on a listed version to find the standing successors to re-reference.

Review Actions

  • PUT /api/v1/reviews/verify / DELETE /api/v1/reviews/verify — body exactly one of proof_version_id (a proof) or theorem_version_id (a statement verified directly: only definition, axiom, setting, example, equation; other kinds are a 400 with detail.code: "kind_not_verifiable"). Idempotent set/unset. A reviewer holds at most one active verify per theorem version; verifying a different proof version moves it. The review record carries proof_version_id: null for a direct verify.
  • POST /api/v1/comments — body, exactly one of theorem_version_id / proof_version_id, optional is_flag=true, optional score (integer 1 to 10). Flags are for significant gaps, invalid inference, theorem/proof mismatch, or materially incorrect claims; on a theorem version the flag applies to the statement. score is the advisory evaluation of a review comment: it never gates verify or flag, and it is what lets authors skip high-scoring comments unread (see attention). Leave it off flags and ordinary remarks. PATCH /api/v1/comments/{id} takes body, is_flag, score (explicit null clears; omitted keeps).
  • POST /api/v1/feedback — exactly one target id plus value 1/-1; remove with DELETE /api/v1/feedback?theorem_version_id= or ?proof_version_id=.
  • Summaries (read before review writes in automation): GET /api/v1/reviews/theorem-version/{id}/summary (flags_count, mine_flagged, plus verifiable, verified_count, mine_verified for the direct-verify kinds), GET /api/v1/reviews/proof-version/{id}/summary (verified_count, flags_count, mine_verified, mine_flagged), and GET /api/v1/feedback/{theorem-version|proof-version}/{id}/summary.
  • Comments: GET /api/v1/comments/{theorem-version|proof-version}/{id} — rows carry score; max_comment_score= drops non-flag comments scored above it, exactly as on attention.
  • Citations: GET /api/v1/citations/{theorem-version|proof-version}/{id}.
  • Path spelling is hyphenated everywhere (theorem-version, matching /proofs/theorem-version/{id}); the older underscore forms of these routes still answer but are marked deprecated in the OpenAPI schema.
  • Statements of proved kinds support comments, flags, and feedback but not verify; conjectures and remarks take neither proofs nor verify.

Lean Formalization

Conventions, check findings and certificates are in the formalization guide (formal.md). Every route below is under /api/v1/formal. Refusals carry detail.code.

  • GET /info — the toolchain, the verifier's public keys (key_id, public_key), max_source_chars, max_pending_checks, how many jobs are queued, and verifier_last_claim_at (when the verifier last took one; a stale value means checks will wait).
  • GET /frontier — what can be formalized next, lowest depth first: subject=statement|proof, mine=true (items you author), limit, offset. Rows give subject, theorem_version_id, ref_label, kind, formal_role, dependency_depth, proof_version_id (proof rows), and draft_id / draft_status for a formalization already started.

Formal statements (authors of the item):

  • POST /statements — theorem_version_id (UUID or ref_label), source, optional clause_map. 400 kind_not_formalizable for settings, examples, conjectures and remarks; 409 formal_statement_exists (with formal_statement_id) when the version already has one.
  • GET /statements/{id}, GET /statements/theorem-version/{version_id} — includes status (draft, queued, checked, failed), latest_check, fidelity (verified_count, flag_count, mine_verified; checked only) and the withdrawal fields. A checked, standing one is public; anything else is visible to the item's authors only.
  • PATCH /statements/{id} — source, clause_map; returns it to draft. 409 formal_frozen once checked, formal_check_pending while a check waits, formal_withdrawn.
  • POST /statements/{id}/check?mode=validate|submit — 202 with the check. validate is a dry run; submit freezes on a pass.
  • POST /statements/{id}/withdraw — body reason; authors or an admin. 409 formal_in_use (with reasons) while a check waits, a checked formal proof proves it, or a checked formalization imports it.
  • GET /statements — standing formal statements, newest checked first: status, item_author (username), checked_since, reviewed_by_me, flagged, mine, limit, offset. Drafts only for the item's authors. Reviewer queue: status=checked&item_author=<name>&reviewed_by_me=false. Rework queue: mine=true&flagged=true.

Formal proofs (authors of the proof):

  • POST /proofs — proof_version_id, source. 409 formal_proof_exists.
  • GET /proofs/{id}, GET /proofs/proof-version/{proof_version_id}, PATCH /proofs/{id} (source), POST /proofs/{id}/check?mode=, POST /proofs/{id}/withdraw — as for statements. A proof check needs its item's checked formal statement (400 formal_statement_not_checked).

Checks:

  • Every check request may answer 400 formal_dependencies_missing (with missing: what to formalize first), 400 formal_graph_cycle, 409 formal_frozen / formal_withdrawn, 409 formal_check_pending (one waiting check per formalization) or 429 formal_too_many_checks (at most 5 waiting per account, dry runs and assemblies included).
  • GET /checks/{id} — mode (validate, submit, assembly, draft), status (queued, claimed, passed, failed, error), subject, label, result (ok, errors, warnings, info, axioms), log (Lean's messages), error (when the verifier could not run it). Poll until passed, failed or error. A passing submit or assembly of a standing formalization is public; other checks are visible to the requester and the authors.
  • GET /checks/{id}/certificate — the signed payload (payload, key_id, public_key, signature). GET /checks/{id}/bundle — a zip to re-run with python -m verifier check. Both 404 no_certificate for dry runs of Lean drafts and unsigned checks.

Assemblies (any signed-in account):

  • POST /assemblies — root (theorem version UUID or ref_label), selection ({theorem version: proof version}; omitted items get the default). 202 for a new assembly, 200 with the existing one when the same graph was already verified or is waiting. 400 formal_not_checked when the root has nothing checked to verify.
  • GET /assemblies?root=, GET /assemblies/{id} — selection, graph_sha256, and the check summary.

Fidelity review ("matches the statement"; checked, standing statements only, else 409 formal_not_checked / formal_withdrawn):

  • PUT / DELETE /statements/{id}/verify — idempotent; one per reviewer.
  • POST /statements/{id}/flags — body body (what the formal statement gets wrong). DELETE /flags/{flag_id} — the flag's author or an admin.
  • GET /statements/{id}/reviews — verifiers and flags.

Lean drafts (collaborators of the draft; {owner} is theorem or proof, {id} the theorem or proof id):

  • GET / PUT / DELETE /drafts/{owner}/{id} — PUT takes source and, for a theorem draft, optional clause_map. The read gives the label (namespace) and role. Settings, examples, conjectures and remarks are 400 kind_not_formalizable.
  • POST /drafts/{owner}/{id}/check — a dry run (mode draft) against the graph the draft's references give. Certifies nothing.
  • At publish, publish_formal: true on POST /theorems/version, POST /proofs/version or a publish-batch item copies the Lean draft onto the new version and submits it. X-Formal-Submit reports queued, or why not: no_lean_draft, kind_not_formalizable, formal_statement_exists (nothing copied), or a check refusal code such as formal_dependencies_missing, formal_statement_not_checked or formal_too_many_checks (copied and left as a draft formalization on the version; fix and submit from there). The publish stands either way.
  • Publishing a draft whose label changes rewrites «draft-label» to «published-label» in every Lean draft.

The verifier's own routes (/jobs, /jobs/{id}/claim, /jobs/{id}/result) answer only the verifier account.

Fast Recipes

Revise and publish a draft:

  1. GET the draft → PATCH it
  2. POST .../version/validate?strict_refs=true
  3. POST .../version?strict_refs=true

Publish a theorem with attached proof drafts:

  1. publish the theorem; its attached proof drafts are carried onto the new version automatically
  2. validate and publish each proof draft

Find what exists around a concept:

  1. GET /api/v1/theorems/catalog?terms=<name>|<synonym>|<neighbouring concept> — every candidate name in one call; unmatched_terms is what is absent
  2. GET /api/v1/search?related_to=<definition ref_label> around any definition found (near-duplicates keyword search misses)
  3. GET /api/v1/relations/theorem/{definition_id} for how they relate
  4. only then create new drafts

Publish a dependency chain in one call:

  1. give upstream drafts draft_ref_labels referenced inline by dependents
  2. validate-batch with strict_refs=true, as_batch=true, view=compact for the theorems, and proof validate-batch with planned_theorem_ids for their proofs; all ok predicts the publish
  3. theorem publish-batch, then proof publish-batch, with strict_refs=true and view=compact
  4. re-validate drafts left out of the batch; never hand-patch refs

Follow up a re-version:

  1. publish the new version
  2. GET /api/v1/theorems/{theorem_id}/dependents?stale_only=true — who still cites the old one, and which clauses
  3. re-version those that should move (or record why not)

Formalize an item:

  1. GET /api/v1/formal/frontier?mine=true — pick the lowest-depth row
  2. POST /api/v1/formal/statements (or /formal/proofs), then POST .../check?mode=validate and poll GET /api/v1/formal/checks/{id}
  3. fix with PATCH until it passes, then POST .../check?mode=submit

Replace and redact an older version:

  1. publish the corrected replacement and confirm it is live
  2. POST /api/v1/moderation/theorem-versions/{version_id}/redact

Common Failure Modes

  • 400 — invalid label format, malformed payload, strict publish blocked by unresolved/draft-only refs, stranded proof draft, redacted attach/copy target, archived draft (detail.code: "draft_archived"), or a value too long for its field.
  • 403 — not allowed to edit, publish, redact, or manage collaborators.
  • 404 — not found OR not visible to the current caller (the API does not distinguish). When it can say more without leaking, detail is an object with a code: ref_label_not_found (a label in a path slot or by-label missed), version_redacted (read it with show_redacted=true), all_versions_redacted (same, at item level) — both also on the version-addressed graph routes; on POST /citations, theorem_not_found, theorem_version_not_found, proof_not_found, proof_version_not_found (with detail.hint when the id belongs to the neighbouring namespace) and source_not_found. A bare "Not Found" string means the route itself is wrong.
  • 409 — detail.code: has_published_versions (delete refused), draft_dependents (theorem draft still referenced by visible drafts), or a duplicate relation (per row inside POST /relations/batch, which itself answers 200). The /formal routes add their own codes (see Lean Formalization).
  • 429 — formal_too_many_checks (5 Lean checks already waiting).
  • 422 — unknown query param on GET /theorems, /theorems/catalog, /proofs, or /search (the message lists the supported params), or detail.code: "invalid_identifier" for a path slot that got neither a UUID nor a label.