LinkedIn
Decision-gated
LinkedIn engineering guide

Read DewEngine LinkedIn documentation as a gated design record

A documentation guide to release labels, target resources, capability discovery, error truth, examples, evidence, and the boundary between roadmap and released contracts.

Educational research only. LinkedIn account access remains decision-gated. No DewEngine LinkedIn connector is approved or implemented.
01
Documentation status

This route is educational, not API reference

DewEngine's capability catalog records a possible LinkedIn account product with target resources, methods, events, non-official session access, and a decision-gated release state. It has no implementation or conformance evidence. The words profile.get, message.send, or search.perform therefore describe planning vocabulary only. They are not URLs, SDK methods, or promises that a connected account can be created.

  • Read the status beside every capability
  • Do not turn target names into sample requests
02
Target model

Understand what the catalog does and does not say

The target resources are chats, messages, profiles, companies, relations, invitations, posts, search, and jobs. Target actions include messaging, profile and company reads, relation listing, invitations, search, post creation, and job management. Target events cover message observations, relation acceptance, and account status. The catalog does not define fields, URLs, scopes, product entitlements, or current provider behavior.

  • Treat omitted operations as unsupported, not implied
  • Keep product-specific extensions outside the common vocabulary
03
Release state

Decision-gated is stricter than planned

Planned work has a selected product direction but still lacks release proof. Decision-gated LinkedIn cannot proceed to implementation or sale until qualified legal review and provider or product authorization approve the exact path. Engineering controls such as pacing, audit, and kill switches would follow; they cannot substitute for the decision. Public documentation must preserve this distinction visibly.

  • Fail closed in capability discovery
  • Keep LinkedIn out of generated API references
04
Future contract

Require account scope and truthful outcomes

If approval ever arrives, customer resources would use opaque IDs scoped to workspace and connected account, optional fields with provenance, durable cursors, and explicit freshness. Provider-visible actions would require idempotency, approval, budgets, and acknowledged, failed, throttled, or indeterminate states. Events would need recorded fixtures, deduplication, and signed customer webhook delivery before documentation could advertise them.

  • Never call provider acknowledgement recipient delivery
  • Keep unknown action outcomes from automatic retry
05
Examples policy

Make every example executable only when the method is released

A code sample is a strong availability claim. Generated examples should come from the same manifest as OpenAPI and SDKs and run in verification. Gated guides may use conceptual schemas or state descriptions, but must avoid tokens, production URLs, curl commands, or client calls that appear functional. Sandbox examples need unmistakable labels and cannot be presented as provider conformance.

  • Fail documentation checks when examples exceed the manifest
  • Remove stale samples after a capability falls back
06
Evidence chain

Trace every released sentence to current proof

A future method page would link to provider authorization, eligible-product contract, schema and fixture tests, consented real-account smoke, failure and restriction handling, privacy lifecycle, tenant isolation, and dated operational ownership. Evidence expires after material provider or schema changes. Until that chain exists, DewEngine's LinkedIn documentation remains an honest requirements library and not an integration manual.

  • Automate claim diffs against capabilities.json
  • Review rendered HTML for visible non-availability boundaries
Questions

Before you build.

Why are method names shown if they cannot be called?+

They define the target product vocabulary and help architecture review. The decision-gated label and absence from released API references make clear that no connector implementation or available method exists.

What would turn this guide into API reference documentation?+

An approved access path, exact released manifest, implemented adapter, schema and failure tests, consented real-account conformance, security and privacy gates, generated SDKs, and executable verified examples.

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