Ideogram Error Diagnosis

Overview

Classify an Ideogram failure before changing code or retrying spend. Separate authentication, billing readiness, request validation, throttling, service capacity, safety policy, asynchronous lifecycle, download expiry, and application storage failures.

Prerequisites

• Endpoint, method, environment, timestamp, sanitized status, and opaque request or generation identifier.
• The exact adapter version and current endpoint documentation.
• Access to content-free logs, fixtures, queue state, and storage receipts.

Current Contract

Endpoint docs surface 400, 401, 422, and 429; operational paths can also encounter transient service failures such as 503. V4 FLASH currently produces 400. Unsafe generation may complete with is_image_safe=false and an empty URL. Async work must reach a recognized terminal state.

Authentication

Verify only that a server-side Api-Key header is configured for https://api.ideogram.ai; never paste or print its value. A key, team balance, and application user authorization are separate checks.

Instructions

1. Capture the endpoint, status, latency, attempt count, content type, sanitized error code, and opaque identifiers.
2. Reproduce against a fixture before considering another paid live call.
3. Map 401 to key presence, header name, environment, and revocation; map 400 or 422 to endpoint-specific fields and media validation.
4. Map 429 to local in-flight concurrency, queue deadline, and server retry guidance; map 503 or transport failure to bounded transient handling.
5. Inspect is_image_safe, URL presence, async terminal state, download timing, and durable-storage result separately.
6. Apply one minimal correction, rerun the deterministic test, and use one approved synthetic live probe only if needed.
7. Record cause, evidence, spend, affected scope, correction, and rollback.

Tool Discipline

Use Read, Glob, and Grep for adapters, schemas, logs, and fixtures. Use Write and Edit only for an approved minimal fix or test. Do not rotate keys, add credit, replay production requests, alter prompts, or relax safety automatically.

Approval Boundaries

Require ownership before a paid reproduction, credential rotation, balance change, concurrency increase, policy change, customer-content access, or production deploy. Preserve the failed state until enough sanitized evidence exists.

Error Handling

• Never retry 400, 401, or 422 without a verified correction.
• Retry transient capacity failures only within attempt, jitter, and total-deadline bounds.
• An expired URL is a persistence failure; regenerating is a new paid and policy-governed operation.

Output

Return symptom class, endpoint, sanitized status, evidence IDs, affected scope, leading cause, ruled-out causes, correction, tests, spend impact, and rollback status. Exclude credentials, prompts, images, raw vendor bodies, and URLs.

Examples

• Diagnose 400 by finding V4 rendering_speed=FLASH, then reject the option locally.
• Diagnose a 200 with no URL by checking is_image_safe before blaming storage or networking.

Validation

Reproduce the original class deterministically, prove the corrected branch, test neighboring failure classes, and verify logs remain content-free. Confirm no queued retry or temporary asset remains after diagnosis.

Resources

• Current first-party evidence map — use the dated endpoint, webhook, billing, team, and training links as the contract index for this workflow.
• Recheck the endpoint-specific page and current OpenAPI description before relying on an enum, limit, beta feature, or lifecycle claim.
• Record live observations as environment-specific evidence, not as universal vendor guarantees.