api-designer

Designing REST APIs requires establishing consistent patterns for resource naming, request/response shapes, and error handling. This skill provides design guidance and generates complete OpenAPI specifications to enforce these industry best practices across your endpoints.

Generating an OpenAPI or Swagger specification is best achieved by describing your new API concept. The skill produces a complete contract, clear specifications, and design guidance to improve developer experience and reduce ambiguity during API development.

Reviewing and refining existing GraphQL and gRPC contracts is fully supported. You can audit API contracts for consistency, enforce standard patterns, and design secure authentication flows to improve overall contract quality and security.

Auditing API contracts involves reviewing existing endpoints against established design patterns. This skill analyzes your REST, GraphQL, and gRPC contracts to identify inconsistencies, enforce security considerations, and provide clear refinement guidance.

Designing authentication flows is supported across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols. The skill helps you establish secure authentication patterns and enforces consistent security considerations throughout your API contracts.

Designing APIs with this approach focuses specifically on contract design and specification generation. It does not handle backend implementation, server deployment, or runtime API management, serving purely as a design and review tool for API contracts.