What problem does it solve?
This skill eliminates the manual, inconsistent work of designing, documenting, and validating APIs that lead to integration errors, security vulnerabilities, and poor consumer experiences, ensuring APIs follow industry standards and meet all stakeholder requirements.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Full end-to-end API design workflow: Covers requirements analysis, endpoint design, OpenAPI spec generation, security review, implementation guidance, contract testing, and documentation.
- Standardized API compliance: Enforces REST/GraphQL conventions, RFC 7807 error formats, and consistent naming, pagination, and filtering patterns.
- Security and versioning guardrails: Includes built-in security review for auth, input validation, and CORS, plus versioning strategy planning and deprecation timeline management.
Use case: For example, when building a new customer-facing e-commerce API, use this skill to define consistent endpoint structures, generate a validated OpenAPI 3.1 spec, run security checks, and produce consumer-ready documentation in a single structured workflow.
Quick Start
Use the api-design skill to create a validated OpenAPI 3.1 specification and security review for the new customer orders API.