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API design principles and decision-making. REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC selection, response formats, versioning, pagination.

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The canonical home for this skill is api-patterns in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

SKILL.md
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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is concise and well-structured on the surface, but its progressive disclosure relies on ten reference files that are missing from the bundle, and it lacks concrete in-body decision guidance or validation checkpoints.

Suggestions

Either ship the referenced reference files (api-style.md, rest.md, response.md, etc.) or remove them from the content map to avoid dead navigation.

Inline the key REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC decision rule so the body is actionable even without the missing references.

Turn the decision checklist into a sequenced workflow with an explicit validation step using scripts/api_validator.py.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and table-driven without explaining concepts Claude already knows; only minor filler such as the generic 'When to Use' line could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides a decision checklist, DO/DON'T anti-patterns, and one concrete script command, but the core decision guidance (REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC tree) is deferred to reference files that are not present, leaving the body's guidance incomplete.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A decision checklist gives a rough pre-design sequence, but there are no validation checkpoints or feedback loops tying the validator script into the flow.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a lean overview with a clearly signaled content map (File | Description | When to Read) rather than an inlined reference wall; however the ten referenced files are absent from the bundle, so the navigation it promises is only partly delivered.

3 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is specific and well-targeted with strong trigger terms, but it omits any explicit 'Use when...' trigger guidance, which limits its completeness.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause, e.g. 'Use when designing or choosing an API style, planning versioning, or structuring API responses.'

Frame capabilities as actions (e.g. 'Choose between REST, GraphQL, and tRPC') rather than just listing topic nouns.

Include a few more natural synonyms users might say, such as 'API endpoints' or 'webhooks'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the API design domain plus several concrete capabilities ('REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC selection, response formats, versioning, pagination'); minor gaps since topics are named rather than framed as actions.

4 / 5

Completeness

Has a clear 'what' but no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, which per the rubric caps completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural user-facing terms like 'API design', 'REST vs GraphQL', 'versioning', and 'pagination'; a few common synonyms (e.g. 'endpoints', 'webhooks') are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Carves a clear API-design niche distinct from generic backend or database skills; only minor overlap risk with closely related skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

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