Backend API

REST API design standards ensure consistent endpoint structures, request/response formats, and authentication patterns across your backend. This Skill guides you through defining standardized endpoints, payload schemas, and error handling that reduce integration friction and security risks.

Secure API authentication and error management include standardized patterns for validating requests, managing credentials, and returning consistent error responses. This Skill helps enforce these patterns during implementation and review to prevent security vulnerabilities and improve developer experience.

Yes, this Skill addresses both RESTful and GraphQL API design standards. It applies standardized patterns for request/response handling, authentication, and error management across both architectural approaches to ensure consistent, secure interfaces.

Scalable, maintainable APIs require standardized serialization, routing, and request/response handling conventions. This Skill directs you to apply established backend coding standards during API development and refactoring, creating clear, secure interfaces that scale without redesign.

API code review should verify consistent request/response handling, proper authentication patterns, standardized routing, and error management. This Skill provides the standards framework for evaluating controllers, services, and API clients against established backend conventions.

No, this Skill works during endpoint creation, code review, and refactoring. It's most effective when your repository defines backend API standards; the Skill ensures your implementation adheres to those standards regardless of whether formal documentation exists.