rest-api-cheatsheet

Design, review, or refactor an HTTP API request handler pipeline. Use when checking request processing order, authentication versus authorization, route matching, validation, idempotency, preconditions, domain execution, atomic persistence, response building, headers, telemetry, or side-effect boundaries for any REST/HTTP API.

Review, design, or rewrite REST/OpenAPI contracts against the REST API Standard. Use when checking API quality, least-surprise resource design, OpenAPI profile compliance, endpoint minimality, status codes, errors, pagination, async jobs, webhooks, security, or compatibility.