x-api-evangelist-provenance
`x-api-evangelist-provenance` appears in the info block. Its value is a structured object. Used by 21 providers across 61 OpenAPI documents. Consistent with provenance — this is inferred from where the key appears and what it carries, not from any published definition.
Where it appears
| Location in the document | Occurrences | |
|---|---|---|
| root | 15 | |
| info | 46 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| object | 36 |
| string | 25 |
Observed values
Sampled from the specifications, most frequent first.
Providers publishing it
All 21.
Why this is not in OpenAPI
Extensions exist because a provider needed something the specification would not carry. Most of what they hold is not the API contract at all — it is operational metadata about the contract: documentation, lifecycle, policy, provenance, and now agents. That metadata is usually better placed alongside the contract, in an Overlay or an APIs.json index, than crammed inside it. See everything else doing the provenance job.