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rest api design builder
Converts product requirements into scalable, standardized REST API design documents for engineering teams.
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rest api design builder
Example session with this skill installed
Design a REST API for a task management system where users can create projects, assign tasks to members, and track status. I need pagination and a consistent error format.
- Read your context and instructions
- Compiled the rest api design
- Generated the UI component
I have designed the Task Management REST API based on your requirements. The design includes resource modeling for Users, Projects, and Tasks, including many-to-many relationships for assignments.
Task Management API Design
Resource Model
| Resource | Fields | Relationships |
|---|---|---|
| User | id (UUID), email (String), name (String) | Owns Projects, Assigned to Tasks |
| Project | id (UUID), owner_id (UUID), title (String), status (Enum) | Contains Tasks |
| Task | id (UUID), project_id (UUID), title (String), due_date (ISO8601), priority (Int) | Belongs to Project |
Primary Endpoints
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|---|---|---|
GET | /v1/projects | List projects (Cursor pagination: starting_after, limit) |
POST | /v1/projects | Create a new project |
GET | /v1/projects/{id}/tasks | List tasks within a project |
POST | /v1/projects/{id}/tasks | Create a task (Requires project ownership) |
PATCH | /v1/tasks/{id} | Update task status or assignee |
POST | /v1/tasks/{id}/assign | Assign user to task (Action-based sub-resource) |
Error Contract
All errors use the following envelope
{
"error": {
"code": "resource_not_found",
"message": "The requested project does not exist.",
"details": []
}
}
Request Example (POST /v1/projects)
{
"title": "Q4 Engineering Roadmap",
"description": "Planning for upcoming sprints"
}
Next steps
- Review the cursor-based pagination strategy for the
/tasksendpoint. - Confirm if the
priorityfield should be an integer or a named enum. - Export this design to an OpenAPI 3.1 specification.
rest-api-design-builder.tsx
TSX · React component
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About this skill
The problem
Engineers often start coding APIs before the contract is fully defined, leading to inconsistent endpoints, breaking changes, and integration friction. Product requirements rarely translate directly into clean, scalable REST patterns without manual architectural planning.
What it does
- Extracts entities and relationships from product briefs to model resource lifecycles and cardinality.
- Defines a complete endpoint surface mapping CRUD and non-CRUD actions to proper HTTP methods.
- Specifies request and response schemas including types, constraints, nullability, and example payloads.
- Designs a uniform error contract with standardized envelopes and HTTP status mappings.
- Develops strategies for pagination, filtering, search, and versioning based on industry standards.
Why this beats prompting it yourself
Generic prompts often produce shallow lists of endpoints that lack edge-case handling like idempotency, soft-delete semantics, or concurrency control. This skill follows a rigorous validation procedure to ensure the design is documentation-ready and extensible, preventing common architectural pitfalls like deep nesting or inconsistent error shapes.
Use cases
- Designing a greenfield API from a Jira epic or product requirement document.
- Standardizing a messy legacy API into a consistent v1 contract.
- Defining integration specs for a multi-team backend architecture.
- Validating an API surface for internal consistency before writing a single line of code.
Known limitations
This tool focuses strictly on REST/HTTP resource-oriented designs. It does not support GraphQL, gRPC, or event-driven architectures, and does not generate implementation code or server scaffolds.
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