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API Design Skill

The API design skill gives Claude deep knowledge of REST API conventions — resource naming, error handling, validation, pagination, and rate limiting.

Activated automatically when designing API endpoints, error responses, input validation, or pagination.

  • REST conventions (methods, status codes, resource naming)
  • Error response format with structured codes and details
  • Input validation with Zod (parse, sanitize, transform)
  • Pagination patterns (cursor-based and offset-based)
  • Rate limiting with token bucket and 429 responses