Schema Include Rate Limit Reference
schema-include-rate-limit-reference
info
experience: reliabilityexperience: documentationexperience: performance
spec: apisspec: properties
topic: rate-limiting
Has an API Terms of Services
This property ensures there is an API rate limits reference associated with API, ensuring the rate limits applied to an API are clearly communicated.
Rule definition
The full Spotlight rule — drop it into a ruleset (.spotlight.yaml / .spectral.yaml) and run it with any Spotlight tool.
schema-include-rate-limit-reference:
title: Schema Include Rate Limit Reference
reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/schema-include-rate-limit-reference/
description: This property ensures there is an API rate limits reference
associated with API, ensuring the rate limits applied to an API are clearly
communicated.
message: Has an API Terms of Services
severity: info
given:
- $.apis.*.properties.*
- $.common.*
then:
- field: type
function: pattern
functionOptions:
notMatch: \b(rate-limits|RateLimits|Rate Limits)\b
tags:
- format:apis-json
- spec:apis
- spec:properties
- topic:rate-limiting
- experience:reliability
- experience:documentation
- experience:performance
prompt: "You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API
governance rule 'schema-include-rate-limit-reference' (Schema Include Rate
Limit Reference). Requirement: This property ensures there is an API rate
limits reference associated with API, ensuring the rate limits applied to an
API are clearly communicated. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT match the
regular expression `\\b(rate-limits|RateLimits|Rate Limits)\\b`; rename or
rewrite any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath
`$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*` — inspect every location it matches and
correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change that satisfies
the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting
unchanged, and keep the document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete
corrected document, with no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'schema-include-rate-limit-reference' (Schema Include Rate Limit Reference). Requirement: This property ensures there is an API rate limits reference associated with API, ensuring the rate limits applied to an API are clearly communicated. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT match the regular expression `\b(rate-limits|RateLimits|Rate Limits)\b`; rename or rewrite any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.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.
| Artifact | APIs.json |
|---|---|
| Applies at (given) | $.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.* |
| Severity | info — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce |
| Reference | https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/schema-include-rate-limit-reference/ |