Maintainer Email Format

maintainer-email-format

info experience: consistency spec: maintainers

Maintainer email should be a valid email.

A maintainer email should be a valid email address.

Rule definition

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

maintainer-email-format:
  title: Maintainer Email Format
  reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/maintainer-email-format/
  description: A maintainer email should be a valid email address.
  message: Maintainer email should be a valid email.
  given: $.maintainers[*].email
  severity: info
  then:
    function: pattern
    functionOptions:
      match: ^[^@\s]+@[^@\s]+\.[^@\s]+$
  tags:
    - format:apis-json
    - spec:maintainers
    - experience:consistency
  prompt: "You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API
    governance rule 'maintainer-email-format' (Maintainer Email Format).
    Requirement: A maintainer email should be a valid email address. To fix:
    Ensure the targeted value matches the regular expression
    `^[^@\\s]+@[^@\\s]+\\.[^@\\s]+$`; rewrite any value that does not. This rule
    is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.maintainers[*].email` — 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 'maintainer-email-format' (Maintainer Email Format). Requirement: A maintainer email should be a valid email address. To fix: Ensure the targeted value matches the regular expression `^[^@\s]+@[^@\s]+\.[^@\s]+$`; rewrite any value that does not. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.maintainers[*].email` — 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)$.maintainers[*].email
Severityinfo — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce
Referencehttps://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/maintainer-email-format/