API Design Skill
The API design skill gives Claude deep knowledge of REST API conventions — resource naming, error handling, validation, pagination, and rate limiting.
When It’s Active
Section titled “When It’s Active”Activated automatically when designing API endpoints, error responses, input validation, or pagination.
What It Teaches Claude
Section titled “What It Teaches Claude”- 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