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Spec Diagnostics

API Specification Integrity Audit

Schema validation is the bedrock of API stability. Audit your OpenAPI schema structure to identify missing error models, query type mismatches, and structural compliance gaps in 3 seconds.

Interactive Scanner

Audit your API spec in 3 seconds

Run a free Level 1 spec check entirely in your browser. Your file is parsed locally with JavaScript — nothing is uploaded to us or any server. We flag missing error models, unvalidated parameters, and map the stateful workflows your suite should cover.

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Drop your openapi.json / swagger.json here, or click to choose a file.
Works for any spec — even private ones behind a login, where a URL can't be fetched.
🔒 100% client-side — nothing leaves your browser.
API Drift

Why Schema Gaps Cause Silent Production Crashes

Outdated Swagger schemas and validation gaps aren't just documentation problems—they break integrations.

Undocumented Parameters

When engineering updates backend logic to require a new query header or body parameter but forgets to update the Swagger spec, client integrations (mobile apps or partner platforms) break silently.

Missing Error Model Objects

If an API fails under load and returns a 502 Bad Gateway or 400 Bad Request payload that isn't defined in the contract, client applications fail to parse the body structure and crash instantly.

Data Validation Gaps

Endpoints that lack strict formats (e.g. accepting alphanumeric text in integer fields or strings in phone fields) allow corrupt database records to build up, crashing down-stream cron syncs.

Outdated SDK Typings

Frontend developers rely on code generators to build API TypeScript interfaces from Swagger spec schemas. Schema drift means frontends receive types that do not match runtime JSON values.

The data

Your API contract is now your biggest attack — and breakage — surface.

This isn't a documentation-hygiene exercise. The research says undefined and drifting API contracts are where modern products break and get breached.

#1
Gartner predicted API abuses would become the most frequent attack vector for enterprise web-application data breaches — a prediction real-world incidents have since borne out.
5%
of API changes experience failure rates above 25% — and only 37% of teams prioritise API security testing. Contract gaps ship quietly and break loudly.
74%
of teams are now API-first. The spec is the product contract — every undocumented parameter or missing error model is an integration bug waiting for a client to find it.
What each level covers

Level 1 is the smoke alarm. Level 2 is the inspection.

  Level 1 — instant, in your browser Level 2 — full audit, senior-reviewed
How it runs 100% client-side JavaScript — your spec never leaves your machine Our engine + a senior QA engineer review your full spec
Error-model gaps Counted, with samples (400/401/404) Every gap listed, per endpoint, with severity ranking
Parameter validation Flags parameters missing constraints Field-level fixes mapped to your OpenAPI models
Workflow mapping Deduces basic create → read → delete chains Full stateful E2E scenarios per the TDS standard
Deliverable On-screen score & sample findings Written report + ready-to-run test plan and pilot scope
Cost Free, anonymous, instant Free — delivered within one business day

Run the Level 1 check above, then request the Level 2 report from the results screen — it doubles as the scoping document for a 2-week pilot.

Secure your API schemas before code hits main.

Schedule a 20-minute slot and watch our engineers demonstrate continuous spec auditing under CI/CD environments.