api-design-safety - Validate REST API responses and downstream outputs
Reviews REST API response design and downstream artifact generation to prevent field ambiguity, inconsistent null handling, incorrect status codes, and silent validation failures.
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Updated: 2026-09-29Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Review response field semantics
- Resolve generic overload ambiguity
- Standardize empty-value handling
- Separate HTTP and business codes
- Validate required downstream fields
- Report missing business identifiers
- Distinguish business and system errors
Inputs
- REST API response designs
- API implementation code
- Downstream consumer specifications
- Business records and identifiers
- Related configuration and entities
- Project exception conventions
Outputs
- API design recommendations
- Validation error messages
- Failed artifact generation results
- Corrected response structures