x-fern-audiences
`x-fern-audiences` appears on operations and in components. Its value is a list. Used by 2 providers across 2 OpenAPI documents. It sits in the `x-fern-` namespace, so its meaning is defined by fern tooling rather than by OpenAPI. Consistent with data & schema semantics — 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 | 27 | |
| response | 1 | |
| components | 28 | |
| operation | 29 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| array | 85 |
Providers publishing it
All 2.
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.