API Change Management for AI-Generated Clients
Manage API changes for AI-generated clients with structured changelogs, announcement channels, compatibility rules, and CI gates.
Topic: API Contracts
A focused archive of API Contracts articles for spec-first teams.
API Error Taxonomy for AI-Assisted Integrations
Design API error taxonomies AI-generated clients can use, with stable codes, retry categories, and machine-readable details.
API Schema Diff Review Before Release
How to run an API schema diff review before every release: what diff tools catch, what they miss, and the human checks that still matter for OpenAPI and GraphQL.
Designing API Specs for Agentic Clients
Design API specs for LLM-powered agentic clients with discoverable fields, idempotency, dry-runs, semantic descriptions, and safe destructive actions.
Real-Time Collaboration Spec: Conflict Resolution
How to spec real-time collaboration: OT vs CRDT, presence protocol, offline edits, conflict resolution, and the operational transform vs three-way-merge decision.
Contract Testing Plan: From OpenAPI to CI
Add contract testing from OpenAPI to CI with generated tests, provider checks, consumer expectations, and reliable fixtures.
Data Sync Between Services: Spec Guide
Specify cross-service data sync with ordering guarantees, conflict handling, backfill plans, and event-driven or pull-based tradeoffs.
Designing Idempotent Workflows with Specs
How to specify idempotency keys, deduplication windows, and state-machine transitions so retries and partial failures don't double-charge or corrupt data.
Event-Driven Systems: Specification Patterns
Specification patterns for event-driven systems: schema versioning, command vs fact events, orchestration choices, idempotent handlers, and replay safety.
Mobile API Spec Considerations for Offline Mode
Spec a mobile API for offline mode with local-first writes, sync windows, conflict handling, outbox behavior, and rejection recovery.
Payment Workflow Spec: Failure and Retry Matrix
Write payment workflow specs with retryable errors, declined-card handling, timeout behavior, 3DS branches, and dunning states.
Webhook Consumer Spec: Signature, Retry, and Order
How to write a webhook consumer spec: signature verification, replay protection, retry and backoff rules, ordering assumptions, and idempotent handler design.