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name: api-integration
description: Design and implement APIs, external integrations, webhooks, clients, and service boundaries using technology-agnostic principles.
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internal: true
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# api-integration
Use this skill for APIs, HTTP clients, webhooks, third-party integrations, service communication, pagination, retries, and integration boundaries.
## Principles
Define explicit contracts for requests, responses, errors, and side effects.
Validate data crossing external boundaries.
Distinguish transport concerns from business logic.
For outbound calls consider:
- timeouts
- retries
- retry safety
- idempotency
- rate limits
- pagination
- partial failure
- authentication
- observability
Do not retry non-idempotent operations blindly.
For webhooks consider:
- authenticity
- replay protection when required
- duplicate delivery
- idempotent handling
- failure recovery
Keep provider-specific assumptions isolated where practical.
Do not leak transport-specific details throughout unrelated application code.
## Adaptation
Use project evidence to determine the actual language, framework, runtime, and existing conventions.
When stack-specific implementation guidance is needed, prefer project evidence, native framework or language mechanisms, and relevant user-installed specialist skills. Technology-specific guidance must not redefine or weaken the core engineering requirement.
