The outcome
Run a predictable media API that cannot expose its key or publish unsafe output automatically.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Confirm the current endpoint, plan, parameters, size limits, terms, User Content handling, moderation, retention, and allowed product use.
- 02
Keep the API key server-side, authenticate owners, validate file type and dimensions, remove metadata, and require rights and sensitivity attestations.
- 03
Submit idempotent jobs with bounded prompts, resolution, timeout, retry count, concurrency, and per-user cost limits while preserving the untouched input.
- 04
Quarantine results for malware, format, dimensions, visual safety, identity, text, artifacts, rights, and task-specific human quality review.
- 05
Release only through an approved action, redact logs, rotate keys, reconcile spend, test provider errors and duplicates, and delete temporary assets on schedule.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Keep keys off the client.
- Limit size, retries, and spend.
- Quarantine every generated asset.
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