discover-api

# API Skills Discovery

Provides automatic access to comprehensive API design, authentication, and implementation skills.

## When This Skill Activates

This skill auto-activates when you're working with:
- REST API design and implementation
- GraphQL schema design
- API authentication (JWT, OAuth 2.0, API keys, sessions)
- API authorization (RBAC, ABAC, permissions)
- Rate limiting and throttling
- API versioning strategies
- Error handling and validation
- HTTP methods, status codes, endpoints

## Available Skills

### Quick Reference

The API category contains 8 specialized skills:

1. **rest-api-design** - RESTful resource modeling, HTTP semantics, URL conventions
2. **graphql-schema-design** - GraphQL types, resolvers, N+1 problem prevention
3. **api-authentication** - JWT, OAuth 2.0, API keys, session management
4. **api-authorization** - RBAC, ABAC, policy engines, permission systems
5. **api-rate-limiting** - Token bucket, sliding window, rate limiting algorithms
6. **api-versioning** - API versioning, deprecation, backward compatibility
7. **api-error-handling** - RFC 7807 errors, validation, standardized responses
8. **api-design-rules** - 35 opinionated rules for API design

### Load Full Category Details

For complete descriptions and workflows:

Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/api/INDEX.md


This loads the full API category index with:
- Detailed skill descriptions
- Usage triggers for each skill
- Common workflow combinations
- Cross-references to related skills

### Load Specific Skills

Load individual skills as needed:


# Core API design
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/api/rest-api-design.md
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/api/graphql-schema-design.md

# Security and access control
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/api/api-authentication.md
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/api/api-authorization.md

# Production hardening
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/api/api-rate-limiting.md
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/api/api-error-handling.md
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