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# Build to Specifications

Canonical URL: https://apicontext.com/features/build-to-specifications
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Description: Bridge the gap between your API’s intended functionality and real\-world behavior by continuously comparing production endpoints with their OpenAPI Specification definitions\.

## Summary
Keep production APIs aligned with their OpenAPI specs\. Bridge the gap between your API’s intended functionality and real\-world behavior by continuously comparing production endpoints with their OpenAPI Specification definitions\.

## Stats
- OAS production endpoint comparisons
- 24/7 continuous conformance checks
- full request and response validation
- teams remediation routed by owner

## Page sections

### Catch contract drift every time code reaches production\.
Category: Automated comparisons
APIContext compares live endpoints to their architected OpenAPI specification and alerts teams to discrepancies in request format, response shape, status code, auth, and more\.

### Continuously compare production APIs to OpenAPI\.
Category: Automated comparisons
Every time teams push new code, APIContext can run conformance checks and alert on changes against the architected specification\.

- Compare live endpoints to OAS definitions
- Run checks continuously after production changes
- Alert when behavior diverges from the spec

### Validate every part of the API contract\.
Category: Granular validation
Check request and response formats, HTTP status codes, authentication requirements, response definitions, and more so teams can see exactly what changed\.

- Request and response format validation
- HTTP status code and auth requirement checks
- Detailed response\-definition comparison

### Turn variances into accountable remediation\.
Category: Manage errors easily
Variances are highlighted for review\. Alert or promote issues to the right teams so stakeholders understand tradeoffs, risks, and ownership\.

- Highlight variances for quick review
- Promote issues to remediation workflows
- Align stakeholders around risk and ownership

### Specification drift evidence routes into engineering, architecture, and remediation workflows
Protect data and users: Use OpenAPI specifications as guardrails for production API behavior\. Production reality: Compare intended functionality against how live endpoints actually respond\. Spec\-driven checks: Use OpenAPI definitions to drive repeatable validation\. Variance review: See discrepancies clearly, with the context needed for review\. Change alerts: Notify teams when new production code changes behavior against the spec\. Stakeholder alignment: Bring application owners, architects, and business teams together around the same evidence\.

## Key facts
- OpenAPI comparison
- Production checks
- Granular validation
- Variance review
- Remediation routing
- OAS production endpoint comparisons
- 24/7 continuous conformance checks
- full request and response validation
- teams remediation routed by owner
- Protect data and users: Use OpenAPI specifications as guardrails for production API behavior\.
- Production reality: Compare intended functionality against how live endpoints actually respond\.
- Spec\-driven checks: Use OpenAPI definitions to drive repeatable validation\.
- Variance review: See discrepancies clearly, with the context needed for review\.

## Primary entities
- APIContext
- Features
- API monitoring
- OpenTelemetry
- OpenAPI comparison
- Production checks
- Granular validation
- Variance review
- Remediation routing

## Audience
- API teams
- SRE teams
- platform teams

## Primary links
- [Build and run APIs to specification\.](/contact)