Schema Include Getting Started

schema-include-getting-started

info experience: documentationexperience: usability spec: apisspec: properties

Has Getting Started

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