Automate RESTful API analysis, linting, and breaking change detection to ensure high-quality engineering standards.
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1. ClawHub CLI
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npx clawhub@latest install api-design-reviewer
2. Manual Installation
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3. Prompt Installation
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What is API Design Reviewer?
The API Design Reviewer is a powerful component of the Openclaw Skills ecosystem designed to streamline the architectural review process for modern web services. It provides engineering teams with automated tools to enforce REST conventions, validate OpenAPI specifications, and assess the overall design quality of their interfaces.
By leveraging this skill, developers can ensure that their APIs are not only functional but also maintainable and compliant with industry best practices. It focuses on critical areas such as resource naming, HTTP method usage, and security implementation, reducing technical debt and improving the developer experience for API consumers. This is an essential addition to any suite of Openclaw Skills aimed at high-scale software architecture.
API Design Reviewer Use Cases
- Enforcing consistent resource naming (kebab-case) and field patterns across microservices.
- Automating the detection of breaking changes in OpenAPI specs during CI/CD pipelines.
- Generating design scorecards to evaluate documentation quality and security implementation.
- Ensuring backward compatibility when evolving legacy APIs to new versions.
How API Design Reviewer Works
- The agent ingests your API specification (OpenAPI/Swagger) or endpoint definitions for analysis.
- The linting engine scans for RESTful convention violations, such as improper HTTP method usage or URL structure inconsistencies.
- The detector compares the current version against previous iterations to flag removed fields or altered response shapes.
- A multi-dimensional scoring algorithm evaluates the API across consistency, security, and usability metrics.
- The skill outputs a comprehensive report or pre-commit failure notification to guide necessary architectural adjustments within the Openclaw Skills framework.
API Design Reviewer Setup
To integrate this skill into your local environment, follow these steps:
- Ensure you have the necessary scripts in your engineering directory.
- Configure your pre-commit hook to trigger the linter:
#!/bin/bash
python engineering/api-design-reviewer/scripts/api_linter.py api/openapi.json
- Run the breaking change detector manually or in CI to compare versions:
python scripts/breaking_change_detector.py openapi-v1.json openapi-v2.json
API Design Reviewer Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill utilizes structured JSON and Markdown formats to organize its evaluation metadata:
| Component | Description | Data Format |
|---|---|---|
| Linting Report | Summary of convention violations and naming issues | JSON |
| Change Log | List of detected breaking changes and impact severity | Markdown |
| Design Scorecard | Numerical scores across 5 core architectural dimensions | JSON/Table |
| Migration Guide | Auto-generated steps for clients to transition between versions | Markdown |
API Design Reviewer Advanced Features
- Multi-dimensional scoring (A-F grade) for deep architectural assessment and benchmark comparisons.
- HATEOAS and hypermedia implementation validation for advanced RESTful maturity.
- Automated migration guide generation based on detected breaking changes.
- Support for multiple versioning strategies including Header and Media Type versioning.
- Seamless CI/CD integration for automated quality gates using Openclaw Skills.
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