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Principle API Design

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API design principles — contract-first thinking, semantic versioning, idempotency keys, pagination (offset vs cursor), error shape consistency, evolvability and backward compatibility, REST vs RPC vs event-driven trade-offs, hypermedia, resource modeling, deprecation strategy. Auto-load when designing an API, choosing REST or RPC or events, adding api versioning, designing idempotent endpoints, adding pagination, shaping error responses, deprecating an endpoint, or evolving a public contract.

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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI

Supported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.

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API design principles — contract-first thinking, semantic versioning, idempotency keys, pagination (offset vs cursor), error shape consistency, evolvability and backward compatibility, REST vs RPC vs event-driven trade-offs, hypermedia, resource modeling, deprecation strategy. Auto-load when designing an API, choosing REST or RPC or events, adding api versioning, designing idempotent endpoints, adding pagination, shaping error responses, deprecating an endpoint, or evolving a public contract.

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Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.