api-design

REST API design patterns including resource naming, status codes, pagination, filtering, error responses, versioning, and rate limiting for production APIs.

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description: REST API design patterns including resource naming, status codes, pagination, filtering, error responses, versioning, and rate limiting for production APIs.
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# API Design Patterns

Conventions and best practices for designing consistent, developer-friendly REST APIs.

## When to Activate

- Designing new API endpoints
- Reviewing existing API contracts
- Adding pagination, filtering, or sorting
- Implementing error handling for APIs
- Planning AP
How to Use

Recommended: Install to project (local)

mkdir -p .claude/skills
curl -o .claude/skills/api-design.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code/main/.agents/skills/api-design/SKILL.md

Skill is scoped to this project only. Add .claude/skills/ to your .gitignoreif you don't want to commit it.

Alternative: Clone full repo

git clone https://github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code

Then reference at .agents/skills/api-design/SKILL.md

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