Checklist
- •Confirm the problem statement, consumers, and data contracts.
- •Map request/response payloads, error models, and versioning strategy.
- •Validate authentication, authorization, and rate-limiting expectations.
- •Align naming with domain language; flag tight coupling or leaky abstractions.
- •Define observability hooks: logs, metrics, tracing identifiers.
Prompts
- •"Walk through the existing contract and highlight breaking changes or migrations we must plan."
- •"Identify one waypoint we can ship first to validate the API direction."
Resources
- •RFC template for service changes.
- •Internal style guide for HTTP and gRPC endpoints.