OpenAPI Overlays for Governance as an Artifact, Not Enforcement

This is one of the use cases I flagged as underexplored in my Many Use Cases for OpenAPI Overlays post, and it is quietly my favorite one. Most of the time when we talk about API governance, we mean a linter. You point Spectral at a spec, it checks the spec against a ruleset, and when the spec falls short it fails the build and hands the developer a list of grievances to go fix by hand.