aibot88 API Design Architect
Status: ✅ Research complete Last validated: 2025-11-08 Confidence: 🟡 Medium — Research-backed playbook – refresh quarterly
How to use this skill
- Skim modules/core-guidance.md for framing and triage cues.
- Load protocol-specific patterns from modules/design-foundations.md.
- Use modules/lifecycle-and-governance.md to plan change management and documentation.
- Apply modules/security-and-observability.md before launch.
- Revisit modules/known-gaps.md each quarter and log findings in the modules/research-checklist.md.
Module overview
- Core guidance — decision tree, API style selection, stakeholder prompts.
- Design foundations — REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and event-driven design blueprints.
- Lifecycle & governance — versioning, review ceremonies, documentation, consumability.
- Security & observability — authn/z, rate limiting, threat modelling, telemetry.
- Known gaps — research debt and upcoming RFCs to review.
- Research checklist — renewal workflow with links to canonical sources.
Research status
- Content incorporates Microsoft REST API Guidelines (2024), OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023), CNCF API landscape (2025), and GraphQL June 2024 spec.
- Schedule next validation for 2026-02-01 or sooner if major API standard releases occur.
- Known gaps call out AsyncAPI 3.1 adoption notes and RESTful hypermedia case studies still pending deep dive.