Design

Design

A curated index of services, tooling, and open source solutions for API design, specification editing, linting, and governance. This collection covers visual API designers, specification languages, linting and style guide tools, schema registries, governance platforms, and design-first frameworks across the API design lifecycle stop.

#API Design#Governance#Linting#Specification Languages

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handyman RAML code Repo link APIs.io
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handyman Swagger code Repo link APIs.io
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Most recent stories relevant to Design, pulled from across the API Evangelist network blog feeds.

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What MCP Governance Actually Means in Production

2026-05-25 · ai-gateway · portkey.ai
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Learn how to improve API governance using a developer portal

2026-05-04 · port · www.port.io
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API Discovery, Reusability, and Governance — Three Capabilities, One MCP Surface for Claude and Copilot

2026-05-01 · naftiko · naftiko.io
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Questioning Our API Governance Reality

2026-04-14 · apis · apievangelist.com
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AsyncAPI Governance Board Nominations 2026

2026-03-30 · async-apis · www.asyncapi.com
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CLI or MCP or both? The design pattern for AI agents managing your data stack

2026-03-18 · rudderstack · www.rudderstack.com
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The Dream Query: Consumer-First GraphQL API Design

2026-03-16 · wundergraph · wundergraph.com
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Beat the Invisible Man: Unforced errors in API design

2026-01-29 · redoc · redocly.com
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Two approaches to API design - Resources vs Workflows

2025-10-28 · redoc · redocly.com
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Designing MCP servers for wide schemas and large result sets

2025-10-07 · axiom · axiom.co
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Introducing ThingsBoard MCP: Natural Language Access to Your IoT Platform

2025-10-03 · thingsboard · thingsboard.io
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From Curiosity to Contribution - Maya’s Inspiring Journey into Open Source and Leading Design at AsyncAPI!

2025-09-08 · async-apis · www.asyncapi.com
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The Complete MCP Experience: Full Specification Support in VS Code

2025-06-12 · vs-code-marketplace · code.visualstudio.com
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Changelog #10 - AI-Generated Operation IDs, OpenAPI Specification 3.1 Support

2024-02-05 · konfig · konfigthis.com
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Sync changes from OpenAPI/Swagger specifications with Assertible API tests

2019-02-11 · assertible · assertible.com
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API Design

0001-01-01 · kafka-connect · kafka.apache.org