x-order
`x-order` appears on schema objects and properties. Its value is an integer. Used by 12 providers across 19 OpenAPI documents. Observed values include `0`, `1`, `2`, `3`. Consistent with documentation & dx — 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 | 10339 | |
| other | 4 | |
| server | 6 | |
| tag | 8 | |
| operation | 406 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| string | 340 |
| integer | 10418 |
| number | 5 |
Observed values
Sampled from the specifications, most frequent first.
Providers publishing it
All 12.
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 documentation & dx job.