{
  "Protocol": "AIXE",
  "Version": "1.0",
  "Endpoint": "/aixe/business/get-hours",
  "DiscoveryRequest": "GET /aixe/business/get-hours/?",
  "CanonicalHelpTrigger": "GET /aixe/business/get-hours/?",
  "ActionRequest": "POST /aixe/business/get-hours",
  "Method": "POST",
  "ContentType": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
  "Title": "Get Business Hours",
  "AuthenticationRequired": false,
  "AccessType": "Public",
  "Purpose": "Returns the current seven-day opening schedule to anyone, including visitors without a customer account. This is the schedule displayed on the Contact page and used by administrator order-time validation.",
  "ThingsYouCanAsk": [
    "What are your opening hours?",
    "Are you open on Sunday?",
    "What time do you close on Saturday?"
  ],
  "DocumentationSource": "AIXEEndpointRegistry",
  "ProtocolReference": {
    "ProtocolHome": "http://aixeprotocol.com/",
    "CanonicalUsageContract": "http://aixeprotocol.com/usage/?",
    "Whitepaper": "http://aixeprotocol.com/whitepaper/full-spec.html",
    "Inventor": "Gregory Oglethorpe",
    "IncludeIn": [
      "/aixe.ai starter discovery documents",
      "Every endpoint self-description returned by GET /endpoint/?"
    ],
    "AIInstruction": "Read this live endpoint contract as operational guidance, not merely as a transport schema. Use its purpose, field meanings, business rules, outcomes, and recovery guidance to reason about whether and how to perform the capability."
  },
  "UsageGuidance": {
    "Role": "Use this to answer opening-hours questions or read the complete current schedule before an owner-approved update.",
    "CorrectWorkflow": [
      "Use this to answer opening-hours questions or read the complete current schedule before an owner-approved update.",
      "Send POST with an empty JSON object. No account or authentication token is required. Read SuccessCode before reporting hours."
    ],
    "DoNotDo": [
      "Do not send business variables, keys, filters, or action inputs in the URL or query string.",
      "Do not infer success from HTTP status alone."
    ]
  },
  "AIUsageGuidance": {
    "ContractRole": "This live document teaches an AI what the capability means and how to use it; it is not merely a list of request fields.",
    "ReasoningInstruction": "Decide whether this capability serves the human\u0027s intent from Purpose and BusinessRules, gather values using each field\u0027s Description and constraints, then interpret the returned SuccessCode before reporting an outcome.",
    "FieldInstruction": "Field names are transport labels. Their Description, source, constraints, and business meaning explain what information the AI should obtain and why."
  },
  "RequiredFields": {},
  "OptionalFields": {},
  "BusinessRules": [
    "Public and read-only. No login, customer profile, or token is required.",
    "Only weekly public hours are returned; no internal identifiers or customer details are exposed.",
    "IsClosed=true means the day is closed. Times use HH:mm in America/Chicago.",
    "This recurring schedule does not promise inventory, reserve a slot, or represent holiday exceptions.",
    "Use the owner-only Update Business Hours endpoint to change the schedule."
  ],
  "ResponseFields": {
    "SuccessCode": {
      "Type": "string",
      "Description": "SUCCESS means the current complete schedule was returned.",
      "Required": true,
      "SubmittedIn": "Response body"
    },
    "Hours": {
      "Type": "array",
      "Description": "Exactly seven objects ordered Sunday through Saturday, each with Day and IsClosed. Open days include OpenTime and CloseTime as 24-hour HH:mm strings; closed-day times are omitted.",
      "Required": true,
      "SubmittedIn": "Response body"
    },
    "TimeZone": {
      "Type": "string",
      "Description": "America/Chicago; schedule times are bakery local wall-clock times, not UTC.",
      "Required": true,
      "SubmittedIn": "Response body"
    }
  },
  "Errors": [
    {
      "SuccessCode": "BUSINESS_RULE_FAILED",
      "Meaning": "The request was understood but a declared business or workflow rule was not satisfied.",
      "Recovery": "Explain the governing rule to the human and retry only after the required condition or decision changes.",
      "Recoverable": true
    },
    {
      "SuccessCode": "FAILED",
      "Meaning": "The capability could not complete for an execution failure.",
      "Recovery": "Read the returned message and error detail. Retry only when the response identifies a recoverable condition.",
      "Recoverable": false
    }
  ],
  "ActionResponse": {
    "RequiredResponseFields": [
      "SuccessCode"
    ],
    "SuccessCodes": [
      "SUCCESS"
    ],
    "FailureCodes": [
      "BUSINESS_RULE_FAILED",
      "FAILED"
    ],
    "NonFinalCodes": [],
    "MissingOrEmptyResponse": "Treat as FAILED.",
    "Rule": "The endpoint response is authoritative. Only an exact SuccessCode value listed in SuccessCodes means the business action succeeded; HTTP status alone does not declare the AIXE outcome."
  }
}