API Scaffold

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: backend

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Scaffold a production-ready backend REST API -- generate a complete server project with routes, controllers, service layer, repository pattern, database models with migrations, JWT authentication with RBAC, request validation, global error handling with custom error classes, structured JSON logging, rate limiting, CORS, health check endpoint, OpenAPI/Swagger documentation, multi-stage Dockerfile, and docker-compose with PostgreSQL and Redis. Supports Fastify 5, NestJS, Express, FastAPI, Django REST, Gin, Chi, Echo, and Rails -- auto-detects framework from context. Build a backend, create an API, generate server, scaffold REST service, new backend project.

What this skill does

API Scaffold is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the backend sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/api-scaffold/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The API Scaffold skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/api-scaffold
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/api-scaffold/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/api-scaffold/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/api-scaffold/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/api-scaffold/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\api-scaffold\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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