API Design Implementation

🌐 API Design & Implementation

Group Skill — Orchestrates sub-skills for designing and building a new API. Activate by saying: "Design an API" or "build a REST API"

When to Use

• Designing and building a new API
• Need to choose REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC
• Setting up API documentation and monitoring

Step-by-Step Workflow

Step 1: Decision

Skill: api-patterns

• Choose REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC
• Evaluate trade-offs
• Select appropriate protocol

Step 2: Design

Skill: api-design-principles / openapi-spec-generation

• Define API contracts
• Create OpenAPI/Swagger specs
• Plan versioning strategy

Step 3: Validation

Skill: zod-validation-expert / pydantic-models-py

• Implement input validation
• Define request/response schemas
• Handle error cases

Step 4: Auth

Skill: auth-implementation-patterns / api-security-best-practices

• Secure API endpoints
• Implement authentication
• Configure authorization

Step 5: Backend

Skill: python-fastapi-development / nodejs-backend-patterns / golang-pro

• Implement API endpoints
• Connect to data sources
• Handle business logic

Step 6: Testing

Skill: api-testing-observability-api-mock

• Write API tests
• Create request mocks
• Test error scenarios

Step 7: Documentation

Skill: api-documentation / api-documentation-generator

• Generate API docs
• Create usage examples
• Document edge cases

Step 8: Monitoring

Skill: azure-monitor-opentelemetry-ts / prometheus-configuration

• Set up API observability
• Track latency and errors
• Configure alerting

Completion

API is designed, built, tested, documented, and monitored. 🌐

Sub-Skills Referenced

1. api-patterns
2. api-design-principles
3. openapi-spec-generation
4. zod-validation-expert
5. pydantic-models-py
6. auth-implementation-patterns
7. api-security-best-practices
8. python-fastapi-development
9. nodejs-backend-patterns
10. golang-pro
11. api-testing-observability-api-mock
12. api-documentation
13. api-documentation-generator
14. azure-monitor-opentelemetry-ts
15. prometheus-configuration