This skill serves as a comprehensive guide for designing modern APIs in 2025, moving beyond rote pattern copying to strategic architectural decision-making. It equips Claude with the expertise to evaluate trade-offs between REST, GraphQL, and tRPC while enforcing industry best practices for resource naming, response formatting, versioning strategies, and security protocols. Whether building a TypeScript monorepo or a public-facing REST service, this skill ensures your API is consistent, well-documented, and prepared for scale.
Key Features
01Standardized response formatting and pagination patterns
02Best practices for OpenAPI and Swagger documentation
03Context-aware protocol selection (REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC)
04Security-first design incorporating OWASP API Top 10
05Comprehensive versioning and rate-limiting strategies
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Use Cases
01Architecting a new backend service from scratch using the most appropriate protocol for the business case.
02Implementing secure authentication, authorization, and rate-limiting patterns for public-facing APIs.
03Refactoring inconsistent legacy endpoints to follow modern RESTful standards and consistent naming conventions.
