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Description
Describe the bug
When generating a Python client, parameter documentation is taken from the parameter schema’s description, while the parameter object’s top-level description is ignored or not preferred.
OpenAPI defines description on the Parameter Object (“A brief description of the parameter…”) and separately allows description on schemas via the Schema Object / JSON Schema annotation model. These fields describe different layers of the API, but the current Python generation appears to only use the schema-level description for parameter docs. 
OpenAPI Spec File
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
title: Description precedence repro
version: 1.0.0
paths:
/tasks/export:
get:
operationId: export_tasks
summary: Export tasks
parameters:
- in: query
name: since
required: false
description: Only include tasks changed after this timestamp.
schema:
type: integer
format: int64
description: Unix timestamp in milliseconds.
responses:
"200":
description: OKDesktop (please complete the following information):
- OS: macOS Tahoe 26.3
- Python Version: 3.10
- openapi-python-client version: 0.28.2
Additional context
Expected behavior:
For simple parameters, generated method argument docs should prefer parameter.description, optionally appending schema.description as secondary value-format detail.
Example desired output:
def export_tasks(self, since: int | None = None) -> Response:
"""
Args:
since: Only include tasks changed after this timestamp.
Unix timestamp in milliseconds.
"""For reusable rich schemas, the split should be:
- method argument docs from parameter.description
- model/type docs from schema.description
- field docs from property description
This would preserve the distinction OpenAPI makes between operation-level parameter semantics and reusable type semantics. This seems to be true for response bodies too.
Happy to work on this myself!