Changelog

Releases below are pulled automatically from npm; the project history is the one-time launch record. Each repository also keeps its own changelog (spotlight-cli, spotlight-spec, spotlight-vscode).

Releases

Package	Version	Published
@spotlight-rules/spotlight-cli	1.1.0	2026-06-27
@spotlight-rules/spotlight-cli	1.0.0	2026-06-23

Project history

2026-06-26 — Spotlight CLI 1.1.0

• spotlight-cli 1.1.0 — republished all 11 @spotlight-rules/* packages to npm. spotlight:skill now carries 18 rules — the 6 added align the executable ruleset with the agent-skill catalog (require allowed-tools / metadata / version, single-line description, metadata object, name max-length). A distributable rule catalog pack (per-format rulesets + bundled functions) now lets the CLI, api, mcp, and pipeline lint with the same rules as the validator.

2026-06-26 — Curated rule catalog + the validator as a workbench

• One curated catalog of 733 rules across 12 artifact types now drives both the validator and the rule explorer. Every rule carries a Title Case title, namespaced tags (format: / spec: / experience: / topic: / owasp:), a canonical reference URL, and an AI prompt. Rules ship at info by default — educate first, raise to warn/error to enforce.
• spotlight-validator grew from a linter into a workbench: AI Fix (Claude / Gemini / ChatGPT — whole-document or precise single-node fragment splice), a tag filter across Results + Rules, a Utilities tab of per-artifact transforms (componentize, split, extract schemas, prune, migrate drafts, flatten, bundle $refs, …), a Repos tab with commit / PR of any saved artifact to GitHub, and Download as APIs.json (0.21). The validator now runs the curated catalog directly.

2026-06-26 — Spec extensions + JSON Schema 2020-12

• Added three first-class Spotlight rule properties beyond the Spectral baseline, documented in spotlight-spec: title, reference, and prompt (joining tags). Bumped the ruleset JSON Schema to 2020-12.

2026-06-25 — The governance suite (api · mcp · discovery · pipeline)

• spotlight-api — an OpenAPI-first HTTP service over the engine (POST /lint, list rulesets, validate a ruleset, list formats).
• spotlight-mcp — a Model Context Protocol server exposing lint + rulesets to any AI client.
• spotlight-discovery — a browser artifact registry: search APIs.io + GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, keep provenance, save locally or commit/PR to git.
• spotlight-pipeline — governance-gate CI: a composite GitHub Action plus templates for GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure, and AWS.
• Agent skills became a first-class artifact (spotlight:skill lints SKILL.md); APIs.io now indexes Arazzo, APIs.json, and skills.

2026-06-23 — spotlight-validator

• spotlight-validator — Launched a browser-based API governance playground at validator.spotlight-rules.com. It runs the Spotlight engine entirely client-side (Vite + Monaco) to lint OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema. Ships a best-of-breed ruleset of ~289 rules compiled from 10 public Spectral rulesets (SPS Commerce, Italian Government, Adidas, Trimble, Paystack, DigitalOcean, Microcks, Baloise, Team Digitale, Schwarz IT) — selectable by source:/category:/format: tags — plus a custom-ruleset editor.

2026-06-23 — 1.0 reboot

• Rebooted spotlight-cli, spotlight-spec, and spotlight-vscode as a clean 1.0: everything product-facing renamed from Spectral to Spotlight (the Spotlight engine class, spotlight: ruleset aliases, .spotlight.* ruleset files), package versions reset to 1.0.0, and the npm packages republished. spotlight-vscode now embeds the published @spotlight-rules engine. Stoplight Spectral’s Apache-2.0 attribution is preserved throughout.

2026-06-23 — Launch

• spotlight-cli — Forked Stoplight Spectral as an API Commons project; renamed the 11 packages to the @spotlight-rules/spotlight-* scope and the CLI binary to spotlight. Published all 11 packages to npm.
• spotlight-spec — Created a standalone ruleset specification with a portable JSON Schema (v1), examples, and a generator that keeps it in sync with the engine.
• spotlight-vscode — Forked and rebranded the VS Code extension (api-commons.spotlight, spotlight.* settings).
• spotlight-rules.com — Launched this site under API Commons.