x-invalid
`x-invalid` appears on parameter objects. Its value is a string. Used by a single provider across 2 OpenAPI documents. Observed values include `foo`, `123`, `afc168-ff1d-4858-955e-4a375189ecdd`, `afc168-ff1d-4858-955e-4a375189ecd`. Consistent with validation & constraints — 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| parameter | 25 | |
| operation | 3 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| string | 18 |
| integer | 10 |
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 data & schema semantics job.