What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps address the challenges of creating and maintaining secure, consistent, and reliable server-side API routes by providing guidelines and tools for API design, validation, error handling, and more.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Consistent Response Envelope: Ensures every endpoint returns the same structure for success and error responses.
- Semantic HTTP Status Codes: Adheres to best practices for using the right HTTP status codes to indicate the success or failure of requests.
- Input Validation: Validates user input at the boundary of the route to prevent common injection attacks and data corruption.
- Error Handling: Offers guidance on never exposing internal details and providing clear error messages.
- Authentication & Authorization: Includes considerations for securing APIs and ensuring users have the correct permissions.
- Rate Limiting: Provides strategies for protecting APIs from abuse by limiting the number of requests a user can make in a certain time frame.
- CORS Configuration: Offers advice on configuring Cross-Origin Resource Sharing for public APIs.
- Security Checklist: Ensures all security best practices are considered before shipping an API route.
Quick Start
Design or review an API endpoint using the api-design skill and ensure it follows best practices for security and consistency.
