x-verbose-required
`x-verbose-required` appears on schema objects and properties. It is used as a marker with no value. Used by a single provider across 1 OpenAPI document. 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| operation | 1 | |
| schema | 68 |
What its value looks like
| Value shape | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| array | 10 |
| empty | 59 |
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.