Design HTTP API

Rules and rationale: api-contract-patterns.md. Per-track generation, client wiring, code: api-codegen-patterns.md. Layer paths: service-layout.md. Versions: stack-versions.md.

The contract is a committed OpenAPI 3.1 file. Code and client both derive from it, so they cannot drift.

1. Audit (change nothing)

cat .claude/stack-profile.md ~/.claude/stack-profile.md 2>/dev/null   # backend.track, frontend.framework, package_manager
ls openapi.json openapi.yaml oapi-codegen.yaml src/api/schema.d.ts src/libs/api-client.ts 2>/dev/null
grep -rn "application/problem+json" src internal 2>/dev/null | head -3        # error format in place?
grep -rnE "cursor|next_cursor|nextCursor|offset=|page=" src internal 2>/dev/null | head   # pagination style
grep -rniE "idempotency-key|If-Match|ETag" src internal 2>/dev/null | head
grep -rnE "app\.(get|post|put|patch|delete)\(|\.openapi\(|@router\.|HandleFunc" src internal 2>/dev/null | wc -l

Record: where the spec comes from (code or file), which errors are problem+json, which list endpoints use offset, which unsafe endpoints lack idempotency. Never ask what the profile or repo answers.

2. Decide

• No committed spec and no generator: full setup (steps 3 to 7).
• Spec exists: apply only the missing rules (step 5 list) and the missing client wiring.
• backend.track is nextjs: use build-nextjs-backend for route handlers; this skill still applies to the contract rules. supabase: PostgREST is the API; use set-up-supabase. Stop here for those unless the repo also ships its own HTTP service.
• Spec committed, git diff --exit-code openapi.json clean after regeneration, client builds: report "already in place".

3. Detect track

Frontend client: frontend.framework any; the client is plain TypeScript (openapi-typescript + openapi-fetch).

4. Install only what is missing

# TS server: already present from scaffold-hono-service (@hono/zod-openapi, zod)
# Go server
go get -tool github.com/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen/v2/cmd/oapi-codegen@latest
go get github.com/oapi-codegen/nethttp-middleware@latest
# Frontend (or the repo that owns the client)
pnpm add openapi-fetch
pnpm add -D openapi-typescript

Check each line with npm view <pkg> version / go list -m -versions. openapi-typescript 7.13 declares a typescript ^5 peer; with TypeScript 6 or 7 npm refuses to install, pnpm warns. The output is a .d.ts file and works; allow the peer in pnpm.peerDependencyRules and say so in the PR.

5. Apply the contract rules

Each rule is in api-contract-patterns.md; check the API against this list and fix the delta.

1. Errors: every 4xx/5xx is application/problem+json (RFC 9457), declared in the spec with the Problem schema. Validation failures are 400 with an errors[] extension. Use the scaffold's seam (src/platform/problem.ts, internal/transport/httpapi/problem.go, platform/problem.py).
2. Lists: cursor pagination, limit capped, { items, nextCursor }. No offset.
3. Unsafe retries: POST that creates or charges accepts Idempotency-Key; same key and body replays the stored response.
4. Names: plural kebab-case paths, camelCase JSON, operationId on every operation (it becomes the client method name), ISO 8601 UTC timestamps, string IDs.
5. Versioning: additive changes only, no /v2 until a breaking change cannot be avoided. CI runs oasdiff breaking against the base branch.
6. Concurrency: ETag + If-Match on resources that users edit concurrently; If-None-Match on large cacheable reads.

6. Generate and wire

1. Emit the spec and commit it (commands per track in api-codegen-patterns.md).
2. Client types: pnpm exec openapi-typescript openapi.json -o src/api/schema.d.ts. Commit the output.
3. Client seam: src/libs/api-client.ts builds createClient<paths> on the frontend fetcher seam, so cookies, CSRF and 401 refresh are not redone. The seam needs one small export; see the section "Wire into the fetcher seam" in api-codegen-patterns.md and fetcher.md.
4. Scripts: api:spec (emit), api:types (generate), api:check (regenerate and git diff --exit-code).
5. CI: run api:check and oasdiff breaking origin/main:openapi.json openapi.json.

Go: //go:generate go tool oapi-codegen -config oapi-codegen.yaml ../../openapi.yaml next to the generated package; go generate ./... and git diff --exit-code in CI.

7. Verify

In a Vite frontend typecheck is tsc -b; tsc --noEmit checks zero files there (see ../../frontend/_shared/conventions.md).

pnpm api:check                         # spec and types regenerate with no diff
pnpm typecheck                 # a call with a wrong param type fails to compile
curl -si 'localhost:3000/<list-path>?limit=0' | sed -n '1p;/content-type/Ip'
# expect: HTTP/1.1 400 ... content-type: application/problem+json
oasdiff breaking origin/main:openapi.json openapi.json    # expect: no output (exit 0)

Go: go generate ./... && git diff --exit-code && go vet ./.... Idempotency: send the same POST with one key twice; the second response is identical and no second row exists.

References

• api-contract-patterns.md: problem details, pagination, idempotency, versioning, conditional requests, naming.
• api-codegen-patterns.md: spec emission per track, typed client, fetcher wiring.
• ../../core/_shared/security-baseline.md: input validation and error disclosure.