API Property Require Linting Rules

api-property-require-linting-rules

info experience: governanceexperience: consistency spec: apisspec: properties

Has Linting Rules

This property ensures that an API has governance rules applied, usually as part of a central set of governance rules, defined by policy, or stages of the API lifecycle.

Rule definition

The full Spotlight rule — drop it into a ruleset (.spotlight.yaml / .spectral.yaml) and run it with any Spotlight tool.

api-property-require-linting-rules:
  title: API Property Require Linting Rules
  reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/api-property-require-linting-rules/
  description: This property ensures that an API has governance rules applied,
    usually as part of a central set of governance rules, defined by policy, or
    stages of the API lifecycle.
  message: Has Linting Rules
  severity: info
  given:
    - $.apis.*.properties.*
    - $.common.*
  then:
    - field: type
      function: pattern
      functionOptions:
        notMatch: \b(api-rules|OpenApiRules)\b
  tags:
    - format:apis-json
    - spec:apis
    - spec:properties
    - experience:governance
    - experience:consistency
  prompt: "You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API
    governance rule 'api-property-require-linting-rules' (API Property Require
    Linting Rules). Requirement: This property ensures that an API has
    governance rules applied, usually as part of a central set of governance
    rules, defined by policy, or stages of the API lifecycle. To fix: Ensure
    `type` does NOT match the regular expression
    `\\b(api-rules|OpenApiRules)\\b`; rename or rewrite any value that does.
    This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*`
    — inspect every location it matches and correct only what violates the rule.
    Make the smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated
    content, key order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the
    document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete corrected document, with
    no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'api-property-require-linting-rules' (API Property Require Linting Rules). Requirement: This property ensures that an API has governance rules applied, usually as part of a central set of governance rules, defined by policy, or stages of the API lifecycle. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT match the regular expression `\b(api-rules|OpenApiRules)\b`; rename or rewrite any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*` — inspect every location it matches and correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete corrected document, with no commentary.
ArtifactAPIs.json
Applies at (given)$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*
Severityinfo — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce
Referencehttps://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/api-property-require-linting-rules/