API Development

Meta-skill that orchestrates the full API development lifecycle — from design through documentation — by coordinating specialized skills, agents, and commands into a seamless build workflow.

What's Inside

• Orchestration Flow — 7-step API development lifecycle (Design → OpenAPI Spec → Scaffold → Implement → Test → Document → Deploy)
• API Design Decision Table — REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC comparison
• API Checklist — authentication, rate limiting, pagination, filtering, error handling, versioning, CORS, documentation, security, monitoring
• Skill Routing Table — maps needs to specialized skills

When to Use

• Building a new API from scratch
• Adding endpoints to an existing API
• Redesigning or refactoring an API
• Planning API versioning and migration
• Running a complete API development cycle (design → build → test → document → deploy)

Installation

npx add https://github.com/wpank/ai/tree/main/skills/api/api-development

Manual Installation

Cursor (per-project)

From your project root:

mkdir -p .cursor/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/api/api-development .cursor/skills/api-development

Cursor (global)

mkdir -p ~/.cursor/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/api/api-development ~/.cursor/skills/api-development

Claude Code (per-project)

From your project root:

mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/api/api-development .claude/skills/api-development

Claude Code (global)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/api/api-development ~/.claude/skills/api-development

Related Skills

• api-design — Resource modeling, HTTP semantics, pagination, error formats
• api-versioning — Version lifecycle, deprecation, migration patterns
• auth-patterns — JWT, OAuth2, sessions, RBAC, MFA
• error-handling — Error types, retry patterns, circuit breakers, HTTP errors
• rate-limiting — Algorithms, HTTP headers, tiered limits, distributed limiting
• caching — Cache strategies, HTTP caching, invalidation, Redis patterns
• database-migrations — Schema evolution, zero-downtime patterns, rollback strategies

Part of the API skill category.