Schema Include API Lifecycle

schema-include-api-lifecycle

info experience: governanceexperience: versioning spec: apisspec: properties

Has an API Lifecycle

This property makes sure there is an API lifecycle schema defining all of the stages of a lifecycle and which policies get applied at each stage 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.

schema-include-api-lifecycle:
  title: Schema Include API Lifecycle
  reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/schema-include-api-lifecycle/
  description: This property makes sure there is an API lifecycle schema defining
    all of the stages of a lifecycle and which policies get applied at each
    stage of the API lifecycle.
  message: Has an API Lifecycle
  severity: info
  given:
    - $.apis.*.properties.*
    - $.common.*
  then:
    - field: type
      function: pattern
      functionOptions:
        notMatch: \b(lifecycle|Lifecycle)\b
  tags:
    - format:apis-json
    - spec:apis
    - spec:properties
    - experience:governance
    - experience:versioning
  prompt: "You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API
    governance rule 'schema-include-api-lifecycle' (Schema Include API
    Lifecycle). Requirement: This property makes sure there is an API lifecycle
    schema defining all of the stages of a lifecycle and which policies get
    applied at each stage of the API lifecycle. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT
    match the regular expression `\\b(lifecycle|Lifecycle)\\b`; rename or
    rewrite any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath
    `$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*` — inspect every location it matches and
    correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change that satisfies
    the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting
    unchanged, and keep the document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete
    corrected document, with no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'schema-include-api-lifecycle' (Schema Include API Lifecycle). Requirement: This property makes sure there is an API lifecycle schema defining all of the stages of a lifecycle and which policies get applied at each stage of the API lifecycle. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT match the regular expression `\b(lifecycle|Lifecycle)\b`; rename or rewrite any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.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/schema-include-api-lifecycle/