When should I use this skill?

Use this skill when designing new endpoints, establishing team-wide API conventions, migrating legacy services, or generating comprehensive OpenAPI/AsyncAPI documentation.

What is the API Design Framework Claude Code Skill?

It is a specialized capability for Claude Code that provides standardized patterns, best practices, and templates for creating robust REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs.

Does it help with API documentation?

Yes, it includes ready-to-use templates for OpenAPI and AsyncAPI, ensuring your APIs are well-documented, searchable, and developer-friendly from day one.

How does this skill improve my backend development workflow?

It automates the application of complex patterns like cursor-based pagination, JWT authentication, and standardized error handling, ensuring consistency and reducing design debt.

Which API architectures does it support?

The framework offers deep support for REST (using JSON and HTTP status codes), GraphQL (schema and connection patterns), and gRPC (Proto file structure and service definitions).

API Design Framework

Name: API Design Framework
Author: ArieGoldkin

byArieGoldkin

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API Development

Standardizes the creation of robust, scalable, and developer-friendly APIs using established patterns for REST, GraphQL, and gRPC architectures.

About

This comprehensive framework provides a structured approach to designing modern APIs, ensuring consistency and high-quality developer experiences across all backend services. It covers the full lifecycle of API design, from resource naming and pagination strategies to complex authentication protocols and schema design for multiple technologies including REST, GraphQL, and gRPC. By offering detailed guidance on versioning, error handling conventions, and documentation templates like OpenAPI and AsyncAPI, the framework helps developers build maintainable systems that can evolve gracefully without breaking client integrations.

Key Features

Standardized error handling conventions and HTTP status code mappings
Implementation guidance for pagination, filtering, and sorting techniques
Ready-to-use OpenAPI and AsyncAPI documentation templates
Comprehensive design patterns for REST, GraphQL, and gRPC architectures
6 GitHub stars
Detailed API versioning strategies and authentication approaches

Use Cases

Migrating legacy APIs to modern standards or implementing new versioning strategies
Establishing organization-wide API guidelines and developer experience standards
Designing a new microservice architecture with consistent API contracts

About

Key Features

Standardized error handling conventions and HTTP status code mappings
Implementation guidance for pagination, filtering, and sorting techniques
Ready-to-use OpenAPI and AsyncAPI documentation templates
Comprehensive design patterns for REST, GraphQL, and gRPC architectures
6 GitHub stars
Detailed API versioning strategies and authentication approaches

Use Cases

Migrating legacy APIs to modern standards or implementing new versioning strategies
Establishing organization-wide API guidelines and developer experience standards
Designing a new microservice architecture with consistent API contracts