Api Patterns

What it does

This skill, hainamchung-api-patterns, provides patterns and examples for interacting with APIs. It helps AI agents construct API requests, understand responses, and handle common scenarios like pagination and error handling. The skill aims to improve the agent's ability to reliably retrieve and process data from external services.

When to use it

• When your AI agent needs to fetch data from a third-party service (e.g., weather API, e-commerce catalog).
• To automate tasks that involve interacting with APIs, such as creating support tickets or updating customer records.
• For agents needing to handle complex API interactions like dealing with rate limits or authentication flows.
• When you want your agent to reliably parse and extract information from JSON responses.

Key capabilities

• API request construction patterns
• Response parsing examples (specifically JSON)
• Pagination handling strategies
• Error handling techniques for APIs

Example prompts

• "Show me an example of how to call the OpenWeatherMap API to get the current temperature in London."
• "How do I handle pagination when retrieving a list of products from an e-commerce API?"
• “Give me a pattern for authenticating with an API using OAuth 2.0.”

Tips & gotchas

The skill assumes some basic understanding of APIs and JSON format. It is most effective when used in conjunction with specific API documentation.