x-ui-operation-id
`x-ui-operation-id` appears on operations. Its value is a string. Used by a single provider across 21 OpenAPI documents. Observed values include `/rest/organizations/paramId/commerce/v2/tracking-ids/paramId/context-mappings/pa`, `/rest/organizations/paramId/machinelearning/configuration/dne/documentextraction`, `/rest/organizations/paramId/sources/paramId/mappings/types/paramId/rules/paramId`, `/rest/organizations/paramId/sources/paramId/configuration/salesforce/objects/par`. 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| operation | 502 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| string | 502 |
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 documentation & dx job.