How does this skill handle API security?

It provides patterns for centralized authentication, including JWT validation and OAuth2 token exchange, preventing the need to implement auth logic in every individual service.

Can it help with performance issues?

Absolutely. It includes specific implementation patterns for rate limiting and response aggregation with timeouts to prevent cascading failures and reduce client latency.

What is the 'Fat Gateway' anti-pattern mentioned in this skill?

It refers to the mistake of putting business logic inside the gateway. This skill provides guards to ensure the gateway remains a routing and translation layer while backends retain business logic.

Does this skill support specific tools like Kong or AWS?

Yes, the skill is grounded in reference implementations from Kong and AWS API Gateway to ensure practical, industry-standard architectural advice.

API Gateway Design

Name: API Gateway Design
Author: sethdford

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Desarrollo de API

Architects robust API gateways for centralized routing, authentication, and high-performance service orchestration.

This skill enables Claude to design professional-grade API gateways that serve as the secure entry point for modern microservices architectures. Grounded in established patterns by Sam Newman and industry-standard implementations like Kong and AWS, it provides architectural guidance for configuring reverse proxies, protocol translation (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), and cross-cutting concerns. It prioritizes system resilience by implementing sophisticated rate-limiting, JWT validation, and response aggregation while specifically guarding against anti-patterns like gateway business-logic leakage and cascading service failures.

Características Principales

01Centralized routing and reverse proxy configuration

02OAuth2 and JWT authentication gateway patterns

03Optimized response aggregation to solve N+1 problems

045 GitHub stars

05Multi-level rate limiting and backpressure strategies

06Protocol translation and request/response transformation

Casos de Uso

01Implementing centralized security and throttling for public API endpoints.

02Migrating from monolithic structures to distributed service boundaries.

03Building a unified client-facing API for multiple backend microservices.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add sethdford/claude-skills api-gateway-design

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Características Principales

01Centralized routing and reverse proxy configuration

02OAuth2 and JWT authentication gateway patterns

03Optimized response aggregation to solve N+1 problems

045 GitHub stars

05Multi-level rate limiting and backpressure strategies

06Protocol translation and request/response transformation

Casos de Uso

01Implementing centralized security and throttling for public API endpoints.

02Migrating from monolithic structures to distributed service boundaries.

03Building a unified client-facing API for multiple backend microservices.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add sethdford/claude-skills api-gateway-design

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT