OpenAPI Extensions

The x- namespace is where API providers put everything OpenAPI would not hold — documentation, lifecycle, policy, provenance, pricing, and lately agents. It is the largest undocumented vocabulary in the API space, and almost none of it is written down anywhere a person or an agent can look it up. This is that reference, built by reading every as-published OpenAPI in the catalog.

2519 extensions
577790 occurrences
18 purposes
22294 specs read
7343 providers

Descriptions are derived from evidence, not from published definitions — where a key appears, what its value looks like, and who uses it. Most extensions have no published definition to quote. Read them as observation.
322 entries are HTTP header names rather than true extensions; they are kept and flagged, because dropping them would hide why the namespace looks larger than it is.

All purposes2519 Data & schema semantics1690 Documentation & DX237 Security108 SDK & code generation71 Mocking & testing60 Change Management53 Visibility52 Runtime & gateway47 Provenance33 Capability declaration32 Artificial Intelligence32 Events27 Performance & quality25 Pagination20 CLI15 Monetization8 Legal6 Privacy3
ExtensionPurposeWhat it appears to doUsesProviders