diff --git a/Dockerfile.openapi_decorator b/Dockerfile.openapi_decorator
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+FROM node:14-alpine
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache git python make g++
+
+WORKDIR /openapi-check
+
+RUN chown node:node /openapi-check -R
+
+USER node
+
+COPY --chown=node:node package.json /openapi-check
+COPY --chown=node:node package-lock.json /openapi-check
+ADD --chown=node:node script /openapi-check/script
+ADD --chown=node:node lib /openapi-check/lib
+ADD --chown=node:node content /openapi-check/content
+
+RUN npm ci -D
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["node", "/openapi-check/script/rest/openapi-check.js"]
diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
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+version: '3.6'
+services:
+  webapp:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile.openapi_decorator
+    image: 'openapi_decorator:${BUILD_SHA}'
diff --git a/script/rest/openapi-check.js b/script/rest/openapi-check.js
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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+const program = require('commander')
+const getOperations = require('./utils/get-operations')
+
+// [start-readme]
+//
+// Run this script to check if OpenAPI files can be decorated successfully.
+//
+// [end-readme]
+
+program
+  .description('Generate dereferenced OpenAPI and decorated schema files.')
+  .requiredOption('-f, --files [files...]', 'A list of OpenAPI description files to check')
+  .parse(process.argv)
+
+const files = program.files
+
+check(files)
+
+async function check (files) {
+  console.log('Verifying OpenAPI files are valid with decorator')
+
+  const schemas = files.map(filename => require(filename))
+
+  for (const schema of schemas) {
+    try {
+      // munge OpenAPI definitions object in an array of operations objects
+      const operations = await getOperations(schema)
+      // process each operation, asynchronously rendering markdown and stuff
+      await Promise.all(operations.map(operation => operation.process()))
+
+      console.log('Successfully could decorate OpenAPI operations!')
+    } catch (error) {
+      console.error(error)
+      console.log('🐛 Whoops! It looks like the decorator script wasn\'t able to parse the dereferenced schema. A recent change may not yet be supported by the decorator. Please reach out in the #docs-engineering slack channel for help.')
+      process.exit(1)
+    }
+  }
+}