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Motivation

Mailtrap now serves a conventions-compliant templates API at /api/templates (and /api/accounts/{account_id}/templates): every response is wrapped in a data envelope, the list is paginated with token / per_page, and write bodies are flat. The existing /api/email_templates surface keeps its published shape and stays the stable way to manage templates.

This adds the new surface as a sibling resource rather than widening the existing one, because widening would change every return type for current callers. The old methods are deprecated and point at the replacement.

The CLI is a user surface rather than a library, so its templates commands move to the new endpoints in place instead of gaining a sibling command group.

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  • templates list calls /api/accounts/{id}/templates and gains --per-page / --token; table output ends with a Next page: --token N hint (it repeats --per-page when that flag is set) and --output json prints the full {data, pagination} object
  • templates get|create|update unwrap the data envelope and print the whole template in JSON (previously a typed subset dropped body_html, body_text and updated_at)
  • create / update send flat bodies; --category on create defaults to General; update sends only the flags that were set and requires at least one
  • The experimental-endpoints note shows in the help of templates and of each subcommand
  • Docs: README, the CLI skill references and the test plan updated

How to test

You'll need MAILTRAP_API_TOKEN and MAILTRAP_ACCOUNT_ID.

  • List — mailtrap templates list --per-page 1 prints one row and Next page: --token 2 --per-page 1 when more exist; running that hint prints the second template; --output json prints { "data": [...], "pagination": {...} }
  • Create — mailtrap templates create --name W --subject Hi --body-html '<h1>Hi</h1>' prints the template with category General; with --category Onboarding that value is kept
  • Get / update / delete — get --id N --output json includes body_html and updated_at; update --id N --subject Hello changes only the subject; update --id N with no attribute flag errors; delete --id N prints the success line
  • Regression — templates list without flags still lists templates (first page of 50)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • templates list supports pagination with a configurable page size and includes pagination details in JSON output. Total counts appear when provided by the API.
    • Next-page instructions include the page size to reuse.
  • Improvements
    • Template commands use the updated API format for listing, viewing, creating, updating, and deleting templates.
    • New templates default to the General category; updates require at least one attribute.
    • Template commands now report output errors.
    • The templates API is experimental, and its request and response formats may change before general availability.

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Walkthrough

Template commands now use /templates endpoints and response envelopes. The list command supports cursor pagination. Create and update send flat request bodies, and create defaults the category to General. Tests and documentation cover the updated routes, payloads, and pagination.

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Templates API

Layer / File(s) Summary
Template CRUD endpoints
internal/commands/templates/create.go, internal/commands/templates/get.go, internal/commands/templates/update.go, internal/commands/templates/delete.go, internal/commands/templates/templates.go, internal/commands/templates/templates_test.go, skills/mailtrap-cli/references/templates.md
Create, get, update, and delete use the /templates routes. Create and update send flat request bodies, and responses use the data envelope. Create defaults the category to General. Update sends changed fields only and returns an error when no attribute flags are set. Tests and command help cover these changes.
Template listing and pagination
internal/commands/templates/list.go, internal/output/page.go, internal/output/page_test.go, internal/commands/templates/templates_test.go, README.md, docs/TEST_PLAN.md, skills/mailtrap-cli/SKILL.md, skills/mailtrap-cli/references/templates.md
The list command reads data and pagination.next_token. It sends per_page and token only when their flags are explicitly set, and includes --per-page in next-page hints when supplied. Tests and documentation cover the response shape, query parameters, and pagination output.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TemplatesCLI
  participant TemplatesAPI
  participant PageOutput
  TemplatesCLI->>TemplatesAPI: Request templates with optional per_page and token
  TemplatesAPI-->>TemplatesCLI: Return data and pagination.next_token
  TemplatesCLI->>PageOutput: Print paginated response and next-page hint
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The documented template test plan raises no actionable merge concern; the PR is mergeable subject to normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4e1f2

The migration preserves client-side account scoping and authentication, and pagination hints remain display-only. No introduced security defect was established. Risk remains low rather than minimal because the new API’s authorization, mutation recovery, and rollout guarantees were not available for verification.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated client-side exposure is template reads and writes addressed within the configured account, plus template data written to local output. The source does not establish that the new server routes enforce account and template ownership equivalently to the legacy routes.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The remote pagination cursor reaches a textual continuation hint, not a production command-execution sink. NextArgs is constructed from a local integer flag. Rendering remote cursor text predates this PR; the added continuation argument did not establish a new execution or authority path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Client-side controls continue to require an account ID, construct account-scoped paths, and attach the configured Api-Token. Template IDs are integer path components, and write bodies contain only the declared template attributes rather than account identity or credential fields.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The mutation path has no explicit retry, idempotency key, conditional-update control, or client reconciliation, and uses background contexts. These principal limitations predate the migration. A response failure can leave mutation status uncertain; create/update now also return output errors after a potentially committed write. No new automatic replay or compensating state transition was introduced, and server-side atomicity and recovery remain unverified.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before relying on the migrated endpoints in automation, confirm their account/template authorization parity, mutation retry and concurrency semantics, and rollout compatibility. Treat output failure after a write as potentially committed rather than sufficient reason to repeat a create operation.
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Comment @coderabbitai help to get the list of available commands.

`templates list|get|create|update|delete` now use the account-scoped
`/api/accounts/{id}/templates` endpoints.

- `templates list` takes `--per-page` and `--token`, prints a
  "Next page: --token N" footer, and `--output json` returns the full
  `{data, pagination}` object
- get, create and update print the template from the `data` envelope, so JSON
  output keeps every field the API returns
- Request bodies are flat; `create` sends `category: "General"` when
  `--category` is not set, and `update` requires at least one attribute flag
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128-128: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial

Confirm the in-app templates example.

This public sample now uses --per-page 20. Confirm whether the equivalent example in the Mailtrap app remains accurate or needs the same update.

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- Repeat --per-page in the "Next page:" hint. Without per_page, the API
  reads the next token at its default page size of 50.
- Port the output.Page NextArgs field unchanged from #17, so the two
  PRs merge in either order.
- Cover the JSON output of get/create/update with body_html, body_text
  and updated_at in the response.
- Show the experimental-endpoints note in every subcommand's help.
- Say "one page at a time" in the list help and the skill reference.

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