x-generatedAt
`x-generatedAt` appears at the root of the document. Its value is a string. Used by 4 providers across 35 OpenAPI documents. Observed values include `2021-04-19T12:58:58.637Z`, `2023-02-01T13:10:18.028Z`, `2023-02-01T12:47:28.953Z`, `2020-08-03T15:27:52.141Z`. 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| root | 35 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| string | 35 |
Observed values
Sampled from the specifications, most frequent first.
Providers publishing it
All 4.
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.