Schema Include Change Log

schema-include-change-log

info experience: versioningexperience: documentation spec: apisspec: properties

Has Change Log

This property ensures that than an individual API or API operations possesses a change log that catalogs all the changes that have occurred in a recent time frame, with historical and version information available if possible.

Rule definition

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

schema-include-change-log:
  title: Schema Include Change Log
  reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/schema-include-change-log/
  description: This property ensures that than an individual API or API operations
    possesses a change log that catalogs all the changes that have occurred in a
    recent time frame, with historical and version information available if
    possible.
  message: Has Change Log
  severity: info
  given:
    - $.apis.*.properties.*
    - $.common.*
  then:
    - field: type
      function: pattern
      functionOptions:
        notMatch: \b(api-change-log|change-log|Change Log|Changelog|ChangeLog)\b
  tags:
    - format:apis-json
    - spec:apis
    - spec:properties
    - experience:versioning
    - experience:documentation
  prompt: "You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API
    governance rule 'schema-include-change-log' (Schema Include Change Log).
    Requirement: This property ensures that than an individual API or API
    operations possesses a change log that catalogs all the changes that have
    occurred in a recent time frame, with historical and version information
    available if possible. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT match the regular
    expression `\\b(api-change-log|change-log|Change
    Log|Changelog|ChangeLog)\\b`; rename or rewrite any value that does. This
    rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*` —
    inspect every location it matches and correct only what violates the rule.
    Make the smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated
    content, key order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the
    document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete corrected document, with
    no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'schema-include-change-log' (Schema Include Change Log). Requirement: This property ensures that than an individual API or API operations possesses a change log that catalogs all the changes that have occurred in a recent time frame, with historical and version information available if possible. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT match the regular expression `\b(api-change-log|change-log|Change Log|Changelog|ChangeLog)\b`; rename or rewrite any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.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-change-log/