x-enum-varnames
`x-enum-varnames` appears on schema objects and properties. Its value is a list. Used by 50 providers across 78 OpenAPI documents. Observed values include `[INPUT, FILTER, PRE_OUTPUT, OUTPUT]`, `['UserFilterSelf']`, `['TradeTakerSideYes', 'TradeTakerSideNo']`, `['TradeTakerOutcomeSideYes', 'TradeTakerOutcomeSideNo']`. Consistent with type system — 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| schema | 1061 | |
| operation | 23 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| array | 1084 |
Observed values
Sampled from the specifications, most frequent first.
Providers publishing it
All 50.
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 data & schema semantics job.