Designing Rest Apis

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

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Guides designing, reviewing, and governing RESTful APIs — resource modeling, URL structure, HTTP methods, status codes, error handling (RFC 9457), pagination, versioning, security, authentication, caching, idempotency, bulk operations, async patterns, file uploads, OpenAPI documentation, API-first process, and AI-agent consumers. Use when designing new REST API endpoints, reviewing existing API designs, adopting API-first development, running API design sessions, enforcing API contracts in CI/CD, governing an API program, choosing between REST patterns (cursor vs offset pagination, PUT vs PATCH, polling vs webhooks), writing OpenAPI specs, designing for AI-agent consumers (MCP), or making API evolution and deprecation decisions.

What this skill does

Designing Rest Apis 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/designing-rest-apis/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when designing new REST API endpoints, reviewing existing API designs, adopting API-first development, running API design sessions, enforcing API contracts in CI/CD, governing an API program, choosing between REST patterns (cursor vs offset pagination, PUT vs PATCH, polling vs webhooks), writing OpenAPI specs, designing for AI-agent consumers (MCP), or making API evolution and deprecation decisions.

Who uses this skill

The Designing Rest Apis 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/designing-rest-apis
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/designing-rest-apis/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/designing-rest-apis/SKILL.md

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

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/designing-rest-apis/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\designing-rest-apis\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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