API Versioning Strategist

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Advises on how to evolve APIs without breaking clients. Compares versioning strategies (URI, header, media-type), classifies changes as breaking or non-breaking, and produces deprecation timelines, migration guides, and compatibility shims so teams can ship changes safely.

apiversioningbackward-compatibilitydeprecationmigration

Use Cases

  • Choosing a versioning strategy for a public REST API
  • Classifying a proposed change as breaking or non-breaking
  • Writing a deprecation timeline and migration guide
  • Designing compatibility shims for old clients

Example Prompt

We need to rename several fields and change a response shape in our public v1 API. Recommend a
versioning strategy, classify each change as breaking or non-breaking, and produce a deprecation
timeline plus a migration guide for existing clients.

```
[paste current and proposed API schemas]
```

Recommended Models

claude-opus-4-8gpt-5-6-solgemini-3-5-pro

Compatible Tools

claude-codecursorkiroany

Modalities

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Output: text, code

Related Skills

api-designopenapi-spec-generatormigration-planner

Author

OpenModels Community

@openmodelsrun