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Spotlight Rules

Standalone spotlight on API governance rules — guardrails for API operations delivered as a curated ruleset alongside the rules collection.

Spotlight Rules publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Rules API. Tagged areas include Rules, Spotlight, and Governance.

The Spotlight Rules catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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40.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
2 APIs
RulesSpotlightGovernance

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 40.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Spotlight Rules Feed

Standalone spotlight on API governance rules — guardrails for API operations delivered as a curated ruleset alongside the rules collection.

Spotlight Rules Rules API

Spotlight governance rules feed

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Spotlight Rules Feed API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spotlight Rules Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spotlight Rules Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Spotlight Rules Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Spotlight Rules Context

24 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Spotlight Rules API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Spectral Rule

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vacuum Rule

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spectral Ruleset Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Spotlight Rules Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Spotlight Rules Agentic Access

1 operation

1 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Network
Network
 APIsJSON
APIsJSON

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: api-evangelist-spotlight-rules
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
name: Spotlight Rules
description: Standalone spotlight on API governance rules — guardrails for API operations delivered as a curated ruleset alongside
  the rules collection.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/api-evangelist-logos/api-evangelist-logo-butterfly.png
tags:
- Rules
- Spotlight
- Governance
created: '2024-11-11'
modified: '2026-05-20'
url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/spotlight-rules/blob/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: api-evangelist-spotlight-rules:spotlight-rules
  name: Spotlight Rules Feed
  description: Standalone spotlight on API governance rules — guardrails for API operations delivered as a curated ruleset
    alongside the rules collection.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/api-evangelist-logos/api-evangelist-logo-butterfly.png
  humanURL: https://developer.apievangelist.com/feeds/spotlight-rules/
  baseURL: https://spotlight-rules.com
  tags:
  - Rules
  - Spotlight
  - Governance
  properties:
  - type: AgentSkills
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-commons/agent-skills/main/spotlight-governance/SKILL.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.apievangelist.com/feeds/spotlight-rules/
  - type: JSONFeed
    url: https://spotlight-rules.com/rules.json
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/spotlight-rules
  contact:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com
- aid: spotlight-rules:spotlight-rules-rules-api
  name: Spotlight Rules Rules API
  description: Spotlight governance rules feed
  humanURL: https://developer.apievangelist.com/feeds/spotlight-rules/
  baseURL: https://spotlight-rules.com
  tags:
  - Rules
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spotlight-rules-rules-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/spotlight-rules-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spotlight-rules-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.apievangelist.com/
- type: Network
  url: https://developer.apievangelist.com/network/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/api-evangelist
- type: APIsJSON
  url: https://developer.apievangelist.com/apis.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  X-github: kinlane