/api-and-namespace-design

API and Namespace Design Skill

Trigger

Use this skill when:

• Adding or modifying REST API endpoints
• Changing namespace, skill, or user coordinate logic
• Working on ClawHub CLI compatibility layer
• Modifying OpenAPI specifications or generated types
• Adding new admin or governance endpoints

Namespace Coordinate System

SkillHub uses a two-axis coordinate model:

@{namespace_slug}/{skill_slug}

• @global/my-skill — Global namespace skill
• @my-team/my-skill — Team namespace skill (namespace slug is any valid slug)
• @department-ops/my-skill — Department namespace skill

Namespace Model

Namespaces (domain/namespace/):

• Slug: unique identifier, validated by SlugValidator
• Status: ACTIVE, FROZEN, ARCHIVED
• Roles: OWNER, ADMIN, MEMBER
• Frozen or archived namespaces cannot publish skills

RBAC Roles

Namespace-level (domain/namespace/NamespaceRole):

• OWNER — Full control over namespace and all skills
• ADMIN — Can manage members, archive skills, publish
• MEMBER — Can publish skills to the namespace

Platform-level:

• SUPER_ADMIN — Bypasses all permission checks, can publish directly without review

ClawHub Compatibility Layer

ClawHub CLI uses a single-slug model (no / allowed in slugs). Mapping:

Conflict resolution: -- split takes priority. @global/team-name--my-skill would conflict with @team-name/my-skill, resolved to the team namespace skill. Global skill slugs must NOT contain --.

API Design

Controllers

• Controllers in skillhub-app (com.iflytek.skillhub.controller/) are transport only
• Responsibilities: extract auth context, bind request params, wrap responses
• Complex business logic belongs in domain services (skillhub-domain) or app services
• Use Springdoc OpenAPI annotations (@Operation, @ApiResponse) for API documentation
• User identity is always String in API inputs and outputs

Request/Response Patterns

• DTOs in com.iflytek.skillhub.dto/
• ReviewTaskRequest / ReviewTaskResponse for review workflow
• Response wrapping handled at controller layer
• Validation errors use DomainBadRequestException with i18n message keys

Session and CSRF

• Session-based auth with cookie storage
• CSRF protection via XSRF-TOKEN cookie and X-XSRF-TOKEN header
• Smoke tests validate the full register → login → CSRF → action → logout flow
• Mock auth uses X-Mock-User-Id header in local dev

Well-known Discovery

/.well-known/clawhub.json returns { "apiBase": "/api/v1" } for ClawHub CLI auto-discovery.

OpenAPI Contract Sync

When backend API contracts change:

make generate-api

This runs openapi-typescript http://localhost:8080/v3/api-docs -o src/api/generated/schema.d.ts.

Commit the updated web/src/api/generated/schema.d.ts with the PR.

To verify no drift:

./scripts/check-openapi-generated.sh

This starts local dependencies, boots the backend, regenerates the schema, and fails if the checked-in SDK is stale.

Versioning and Tags

• Semantic versioning for skill versions (major.minor.patch)
• latest tag is system-reserved, read-only, auto-follows Skill.latestVersionId
• Custom tags (stable, beta) are manually maintained
• latest cannot be moved manually
• Auto-generated versions use yyyyMMdd.HHmmss format when no version is specified in SKILL.md

Key API Endpoints

Common Pitfalls

• Forgetting CSRF token on POST/PUT/DELETE requests (needs X-XSRF-TOKEN header)
• Using numeric user IDs in API — all user identities are String
• Not regenerating OpenAPI types after adding/changing endpoints
• Putting business logic in controllers instead of domain/app services
• Assuming namespace slugs follow a specific prefix pattern — they are arbitrary valid slugs