What problem does it solve?
This Skill provides comprehensive guidance and best practices for designing robust, scalable, and user-friendly REST APIs, addressing common pitfalls in resource naming, status codes, pagination, and error handling.
Core Features & Use Cases
- RESTful Principles: Enforces conventions for resource naming, URL structure, and HTTP method semantics.
- Standardized Responses: Defines clear patterns for success and error responses, including pagination and filtering.
- Versioning Strategies: Outlines methods for API versioning and deprecation.
- Use Case: When designing a new set of API endpoints for a user management system, use this Skill to ensure consistent resource naming (e.g.,
/api/v1/users), appropriate status codes (e.g., 201 Created for new users), and a clear error response format.
Quick Start
Use the api-design skill to generate a standard error response for a validation failure.