How to handle a breaking change?

[noelmccrory]

I get that we should always strive to make non-breaking changes to our APIs but sometimes in the real world exceptional cases come up and we do need to make them. Take the example of adding a new mandatory field to the request. The typical approach for this would be:

1. Add the new field as optional
2. Wait for all consumers to add the new field
3. Update the field to be mandatory

According to the Specmatic docs, Step 3 would result in an error when running the compatible command. How should this be handled? Just disable/ignore the CI step to run the compatible command temporarily?

Thanks.