Audience: application and coding agent.
Coverage and source scope
Distribution rules: public_record and fund_published letters serve the full document; third_party letters return 403 document_not_distributable with a sourceUrl hint. EDGAR-sourced letters redirect to the EDGAR primary document.?sha= retrieves a superseded source variant’s markdown so historical anchors always verify — only when the canonical letter’s distribution permits document serving.
Canonical metadata
requestIdtraceparent
Example request
Example response
Give this prompt to your agent
Failure posture
- treat non-2xx responses as contract-aware failures, not free-form errors
- preserve
requestIdandtraceparentin logs and downstream reports - if provenance or freshness metadata is present, return it unchanged so trust is not lost in the handoff

