Schema Include Governance Policies

schema-include-governance-policies

info experience: governance spec: apisspec: properties

Has API Governance Policies

This property ensures there is a governance policies reference as part of an API contract, usually a common property pointing to a centralized set of policies that get applied.

Rule definition

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

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