response-design-and-pagination

What problem does it solve?

This Skill addresses the challenges of designing consistent, predictable, and efficient API responses, particularly for list endpoints and resource representation, ensuring a better developer experience and API maintainability.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Consistent Response Envelopes: Standardizes the structure of list responses with data, has_more, and next_cursor fields.
• Cursor-Based Pagination: Implements efficient and stable pagination that avoids issues with data shifting during concurrent writes.
• Expandable Objects: Allows clients to request nested resource data via query parameters (?expand[]=field), reducing the need for multiple API calls.
• Use Case: When building a new API endpoint to list user accounts, use this Skill to ensure it returns data in a consistent format, supports efficient pagination for large datasets, and allows clients to optionally fetch related user profile details in the same request.

Quick Start

Use the response-design-and-pagination skill to structure a JSON response for a list of products, including cursor-based pagination and an option to expand related category data.