Info Contact Require URL
info-contact-require-url
info
experience: discoverabilityexperience: documentation
spec: info
Info MUST Have Contact URL
Having a contact url associated with the technical contract ensures that anyone who comes across the API knows where to go to contact someone.
Rule definition
The full Spotlight rule — drop it into a ruleset (.spotlight.yaml / .spectral.yaml) and run it with any Spotlight tool.
info-contact-require-url:
title: Info Contact Require URL
reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/openapi/info-contact-require-url/
description: Having a contact url associated with the technical contract ensures
that anyone who comes across the API knows where to go to contact someone.
message: Info MUST Have Contact URL
severity: info
given: $.info.contact
then:
field: url
function: truthy
tags:
- format:openapi
- spec:info
- experience:discoverability
- experience:documentation
prompt: "You are editing an OpenAPI document to satisfy the Spotlight API
governance rule 'info-contact-require-url' (Info Contact Require URL).
Requirement: Having a contact url associated with the technical contract
ensures that anyone who comes across the API knows where to go to contact
someone. To fix: Ensure `url` is present and non-empty at each matching
location. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.info.contact` — 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
OpenAPI. 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 OpenAPI document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'info-contact-require-url' (Info Contact Require URL). Requirement: Having a contact url associated with the technical contract ensures that anyone who comes across the API knows where to go to contact someone. To fix: Ensure `url` is present and non-empty at each matching location. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.info.contact` — 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 OpenAPI. Return only the complete corrected document, with no commentary.
| Artifact | OpenAPI |
|---|---|
| Applies at (given) | $.info.contact |
| Severity | info — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce |
| Reference | https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/openapi/info-contact-require-url/ |