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django-patterns

Django architecture patterns, REST API design with DRF, ORM best practices, caching, signals, middleware, and production-grade Django apps.

backend-patterns

Backend architecture patterns, API design, database optimization, and server-side best practices for Node.js, Express, and Next.js API routes.

springboot-patterns

Spring Boot architecture patterns, REST API design, layered services, data access, caching, async processing, and logging. Use for Java Spring Boot backend work.

nodejs-backend-patterns

Build production-ready Node.js backend services with Express/Fastify, implementing middleware patterns, error handling, authentication, database integration, and API design best practices. Use when creating Node.js servers, REST APIs, GraphQL backends, or microservices architectures.

python-project-structure

Python project organization, module architecture, and public API design. Use when setting up new projects, organizing modules, defining public interfaces with __all__, or planning directory layouts.

api-design-principles

Master REST and GraphQL API design principles to build intuitive, scalable, and maintainable APIs that delight developers. Use when designing new APIs, reviewing API specifications, or establishing API design standards.

reviewing-code

Review code for quality, maintainability, and correctness. Use when reviewing pull requests, evaluating code changes, or providing feedback on implementations. Focuses on API design, patterns, and actionable feedback.

api-patterns

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

api-security-best-practices

Implement secure API design patterns including authentication, authorization, input validation, rate limiting, and protection against common API vulnerabilities

backend-patterns

Backend architecture patterns, API design, database optimization, and server-side best practices for Node.js, Express, and Next.js API routes.

nodejs-backend-patterns

Build production-ready Node.js backend services with Express/Fastify, implementing middleware patterns, error handling, authentication, database integration, and API design best practices. Use when...

api-design-principles

Master REST and GraphQL API design principles to build intuitive, scalable, and maintainable APIs that delight developers. Use when designing new APIs, reviewing API specifications, or establishing...

sharp-edges

Identifies error-prone APIs, dangerous configurations, and footgun designs that enable security mistakes. Use when reviewing API designs, configuration schemas, cryptographic library ergonomics, or evaluating whether code follows 'secure by default' and 'pit of success' principles. Triggers: footgun, misuse-resistant, secure defaults, API usability, dangerous configuration.

frontend-blueprint

tech-leads-club

AI frontend specialist and design consultant that guides users through a structured discovery process before generating any code. Collects visual references, design tokens, typography, icons, layout preferences, and brand guidelines to ensure the final output matches the user's vision with high fidelity. Use when the user asks to build, design, create, or improve any frontend interface — websites, landing pages, dashboards, components, apps, emails, forms, modals, or any UI element. Also triggers on "build me a UI", "design a page", "create a component", "improve this layout", "make this look better", "frontend", "interface", "redesign", or when the user provides mockups, screenshots, or design references. Do NOT use for backend logic, API design, database schemas, or non-visual code tasks.

backend-development

Backend API design, database architecture, microservices patterns, and test-driven development. Use for designing APIs, database schemas, or backend system architecture.

domain-web

Use when building web services. Keywords: web server, HTTP, REST API, GraphQL, WebSocket, axum, actix, warp, rocket, tower, hyper, reqwest, middleware, router, handler, extractor, state management, authentication, authorization, JWT, session, cookie, CORS, rate limiting, web development, HTTP services, API design, middleware, routing

moai-domain-backend

Backend development specialist covering API design, database integration, microservices architecture, and modern backend patterns. Use when user asks about API design, REST or GraphQL endpoints, server implementation, authentication, authorization, middleware, or backend service architecture. Do NOT use for database-specific schema design or query optimization (use moai-domain-database instead) or frontend implementation (use moai-domain-frontend instead).

moai-domain-database

Database specialist covering PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Oracle, and advanced data patterns for modern applications. Use when user asks about database schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, data modeling, migrations, ORM configuration, or database performance tuning. Do NOT use for API design or server-side business logic (use moai-domain-backend instead).

ts-library

Use when authoring TypeScript libraries - covers project setup, package exports, build tooling (tsdown/unbuild), API design patterns, type inference tricks, testing, and release workflows. Patterns extracted from 20+ high-quality ecosystem libraries.

api-conventions

MX Space API design conventions. Apply when writing controllers, API endpoints, or handling HTTP requests.

mx-review

Review code for MX Space project conventions. Checks NestJS patterns, TypeGoose models, Zod schemas, API design, etc.

organize-modules

Apply private modules with public re-exports (barrel export) pattern for clean API design. Includes conditional visibility for docs and tests. Use when creating modules, organizing mod.rs files, or before creating commits.

modern-csharp-coding-standards

Write modern, high-performance C# code using records, pattern matching, value objects, async/await, Span<T>/Memory<T>, and best-practice API design patterns. Emphasizes functional-style programming with C# 12+ features.

api-versioning

Thibautbaissac Rails Ai Agents Api Versioning

Implements RESTful API design with versioning and request specs. Use when building APIs, adding API endpoints, versioning APIs, or when user mentions REST, JSON API, or API design.

rest-api-design

RESTful API design principles, versioning, pagination, HATEOAS, and documentation.

phase-4-api

popup-studio-ai

Skill for designing and implementing backend APIs. Includes the Zero Script QA methodology for validating APIs without hand-written test scripts. Use proactively when a user needs to design, implement, or refactor backend APIs. Triggers: API design, REST API, backend, endpoint, API architecture, endpoint modelling, OpenAPI/Swagger, authentication, authorization, versioning, error handling, input validation, pagination, rate limiting, idempotency, performance tuning Do NOT use for: frontend-only projects, static websites, or starter-level prototypes.

system-architect

Designs system architecture, selects tech stacks, defines components and interfaces, addresses non-functional requirements. Trigger words - architecture, system design, tech stack, components, scalability, security, API design, data model, NFR, patterns, microservices, monolith

implementing-api-patterns

API design and implementation across REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC patterns. Use when building backend services, public APIs, or service-to-service communication. Covers REST frameworks (FastAPI, Axum, Gin, Hono), GraphQL libraries (Strawberry, async-graphql, gqlgen, Pothos), gRPC (Tonic, Connect-Go), tRPC for TypeScript, pagination strategies (cursor-based, offset-based), rate limiting, caching, versioning, and OpenAPI documentation generation. Includes frontend integration patterns for forms, tables, dashboards, and ai-chat skills.

Spring Boot API Design

HoangNguyen0403

Standards for OpenAPI, Versioning, and Global Error Handling

api-design

RESTful API design best practices and conventions guide

api-contract-design

REST and GraphQL API design patterns, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, versioning strategies, and authentication patterns. Use when designing APIs, reviewing API contracts, evaluating API technologies, or implementing API endpoints. Covers contract-first design, resource modeling, error handling, pagination, and security.

aip

Google API Improvement Proposals (AIP) reference. Use BEFORE designing or reviewing APIs, protobuf definitions, or any work involving Google API design standards. Fetches relevant AIP rules from https://google.aip.dev for the task at hand.

backend-api

Design and implement RESTful API endpoints following REST principles, HTTP standards, and resource-based URL conventions. Use this skill when creating or modifying API endpoints, routes, controllers, request handlers, or API documentation. Apply when working with REST API design, API versioning, HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE), URL structure, query parameters, response formatting, status codes, rate limiting, or API middleware. Use when building web services, microservices, or any backend code that exposes HTTP endpoints for client consumption.

backend-development

Comprehensive backend development skill for building scalable backend systems using Python (FastAPI), Postgres, Redis, and more. Includes API design, database optimization, security implementation, and performance tuning.

component

Build accessible, headless UI components with modern architecture patterns. Use when creating component libraries, design systems, or reusable UI primitives. Handles compound components, state management, accessibility, styling hooks, and API design. Includes HTML (controllers, ReactiveElement) and React (hooks, context) patterns. Triggers: "create component", "component pattern", "compound component", "headless component".

api

API design and developer experience for TypeScript libraries. Use when designing APIs, reviewing architecture, evaluating DX, or checking ergonomics. Covers extensibility, progressive disclosure, type inference, state patterns, and composition. For review, load review/workflow.md. Triggers: "design API", "review API", "check DX", "is this ergonomic", "review architecture", "middleware design", "how does this feel".

backend-fundamentals

Reviews API design, REST conventions, and backend architecture. Use when junior builds API endpoints, Express routes, middleware, controllers, or asks "is this RESTful", "check my endpoint".

backend-dev

Comprehensive backend development workflow that orchestrates expert analysis, architecture design, implementation, and deployment using the integrated toolset. Handles everything from API design and database architecture to security implementation and DevOps automation.

nodejs-backend-patterns

Build production-ready Node.js backend services with Express/Fastify, implementing middleware patterns, error handling, authentication, database integration, and API design best practices. Use when creating Node.js servers, REST APIs, GraphQL backends, or microservices architectures.

api-design-principles

Master REST and GraphQL API design principles to build intuitive, scalable, and maintainable APIs that delight developers. Use when designing new APIs, reviewing API specifications, or establishing API design standards.

spring-boot-rest-api-standards

giuseppe-trisciuoglio

Provides REST API design standards and best practices for Spring Boot projects. Use when creating or reviewing REST endpoints, DTOs, error handling, pagination, security headers, HATEOAS and architecture patterns.

api-reviewer

Guidelines for reviewing API design in the Hex1b codebase. Use when evaluating public APIs, reviewing accessibility modifiers, or assessing whether new APIs follow project conventions.

aposd-designing-deep-modules

Enforce Design-It-Twice workflow: generate 2-3 radically different approaches, compare them, then implement. Use when designing modules, APIs, or classes before implementation. Triggers on: design, create class, add module, implement feature, new service, API design, before implementing. Produces structured design document with approaches, comparison table, choice rationale, and depth check.

backend-patterns

Backend architecture patterns, API design, database optimization, and server-side best practices for Node.js, Express, and Next.js API routes.

api-design

API design patterns for REST/GraphQL framework design, versioning strategies, and RFC 9457 error handling. Use when designing API endpoints, choosing versioning schemes, implementing Problem Details errors, or building OpenAPI specifications.

api-designrestgraphql+5

discover-api

Automatically discover API design skills when working with REST APIs, GraphQL schemas, API authentication, OAuth, JWT, rate limiting, API versioning, error handling, or endpoint design. Activates for backend API development tasks.

backend

Design APIs, microservices, and database schemas. Use for server-side development, API design, or system architecture.

dignified-python

Python coding standards with automatic version detection. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring Python to ensure adherence to LBYL exception handling patterns, modern type syntax (list[str], str | None), pathlib operations, ABC-based interfaces, absolute imports, and explicit error boundaries at CLI level. Also provides production-tested code smell patterns from Dagster Labs for API design, parameter complexity, and code organization. Essential for maintaining erk's dignified Python standards.

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