api-expert - Design secure, scalable APIs across major paradigms
Design, implement, document, and verify REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and secure API solutions using current standards.
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Updated: 2026-10-16Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Design RESTful APIs
- Implement authentication flows
- Apply API versioning
- Implement rate limiting
- Design pagination schemes
- Standardize error responses
- Validate OpenAPI specifications
- Verify security guidance
- Write API tests
Inputs
- API requirements
- Existing codebase
- API specifications
- Authentication requirements
- Security requirements
Outputs
- API architecture designs
- API implementation code
- OpenAPI specifications
- API tests
- Security verification results
- API documentation
Requirements
- Sonnet model support
- Codebase read and search access
- Web search and fetch access
- Access to official specifications