Issues

• Name clearance due diligence: Spectical vs OpenLint (trademark, npm, GitHub, domains)

  api-commons/spotlight-spec#45 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Sep 16, 2026
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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#44 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Sep 7, 2026

• Put "do not fork, upstream" in the mission: foundational dependencies stay in the open

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#43 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 28, 2026

• Cross-spec liaison: Overlay, Arazzo and JSON Schema — starting with aliases

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#42 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 28, 2026

• Ruleset modularity: one family of rulesets, many environments, standards and versions

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#41 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 28, 2026

• Office hours notes — 2026-08-28

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#40 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 28, 2026

• Name the Spectral Fork

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#39 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 28, 2026
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• Office hours agenda — 2026-08-28

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#35 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 27, 2026
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• Office hours notes — 2026-08-21

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#34 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 21, 2026
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• Licensing and trademark — what the specification is licensed under, and the from-scratch option

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#33 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Markdown as a first-class format — linting agent skills, and why paths do not fit prose

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#32 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Testing the rules themselves — a self-test facility, the way OPA has one

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#31 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Ruleset referencing: how default and custom rulesets are named, found and composed

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#30 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Custom functions in the specification — the part that is tied to a language

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#29 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 21, 2026

• JSON Path: the RFC exists, this format does not follow it — pick a path and an escape route

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#28 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Office hours agenda — 2026-08-21

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#27 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 19, 2026
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• Where Spotlight Rules lives, and how the work gets funded — four proposals and the funding mechanism

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#26 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 19, 2026
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• Multi-format is a goal, not an accident — say so in the specification

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#24 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 17, 2026
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• Fixing: custom callback or DSL, and can we align with Speakeasy and Vacuum

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#23 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 17, 2026

• Summaries and ratings: how well are you doing, not just what you got wrong

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#22 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 17, 2026

• Where do industry rulesets sit in the layer model?

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#21 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 17, 2026
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• Elevate aliases out of the core ruleset into their own namespace, and get rules off JSONPath

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#20 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 17, 2026
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• Office hours notes — 2026-08-14

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#19 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 17, 2026
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• Spotlight Rules Weekly Office Hours

  api-commons/spotlight-spec#18 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Aug 7, 2026
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• Knowing who depends on this, without building surveillance into the tooling

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  api-commons/spotlight-spec#15 · Filter by author kinlane opened on Jul 31, 2026