x-okta-defined-as
`x-okta-defined-as` appears on schema objects and properties. Its value is a structured object. Used by a single provider across 1 OpenAPI document. It sits in the `x-okta-` namespace, so its meaning is defined by okta 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 | 8 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| object | 8 |
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.