x-type-name
`x-type-name` appears on schema objects and properties and on parameter objects. Its value is a string. Used by a single provider across 16 OpenAPI documents. Observed values include `UtcDateTime`, `Date`, `AccountKey`, `ClientKey`. Consistent with type system — 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 | 236 | |
| schema | 325 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| string | 561 |
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.