x-docs-force-simple-type
`x-docs-force-simple-type` appears on schema objects and properties and on header objects. Its value is a boolean flag. Used by a single provider across 1 OpenAPI document. Consistent with documentation & dx — 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| header | 9 | |
| schema | 22 | |
| operation | 6 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| boolean | 37 |
Observed values
Sampled from the specifications, most frequent first.
Providers publishing it
All 1.
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 documentation & dx job.