API Design Safety Guide

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Enforces best practices for REST API response structures and downstream data integrity to prevent silent failures and design ambiguities.

This skill provides comprehensive safety patterns for designing and modifying REST APIs, ensuring consistent response structures across frameworks like Spring Boot, Gin, and Express. It systematically addresses common pitfalls such as generic method overloading ambiguities, confusion between HTTP and business status codes, and inconsistent null handling. Additionally, it provides a rigorous framework for validating downstream deliverables like Excel, CSV, and PDF files to prevent silent failures where critical fields are missing but the process technically succeeds. By implementing these standards, Claude helps developers build more predictable, debuggable, and enterprise-ready backend services.

主な機能

01Prevents Java generic method overloading ambiguities in API responses
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03Provides proper exception mapping to distinguish business errors from system bugs
04Standardizes 'message', 'data', and 'code' field semantics
05Enforces consistent handling for null values, empty lists, and pagination
06Validates mandatory fields for downstream exports (Excel/PDF) to avoid silent failures

ユースケース

01Designing global exception handlers that provide user-friendly messages while logging system errors
02Standardizing REST API response contracts across a microservices architecture
03Building robust data export features for third-party platforms like WeChat or logistics systems