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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.

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80 stories relevant to Design, pulled from across the API Evangelist network blog feeds.

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Eighteen Tools for Open API Governance, One a Day

2026-07-25 · schema-validation · apievangelist.com
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Eighteen Tools for Open API Governance, One a Day

2026-07-25 · programmableweb · apievangelist.com
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API definition-native AI testing: Support faster, confident shipping with your existing Swagger and OpenAPI specification

2026-07-24 · smartbear · smartbear.com
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MCP in Azure: Using API Management for Authentication, Access, Logging & Governance

2026-07-22 · azure-container-apps · techcommunity.microsoft.com
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Conversational API Governance Your Agent Can Call

2026-07-21 · programmableweb · apievangelist.com
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MCP Governance: The Foundation of Your Agentic AI Strategy

2026-07-21 · insomnia · konghq.com
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Tamper-Evident Certificates for API Governance

2026-07-20 · schema-validation · apievangelist.com
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A Federated API Governance Rule Registry

2026-07-20 · schema-validation · apievangelist.com
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There Is No Platform for API Governance

2026-07-20 · schema-validation · apievangelist.com
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Tamper-Evident Certificates for API Governance

2026-07-20 · programmableweb · apievangelist.com
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A Federated API Governance Rule Registry

2026-07-20 · programmableweb · apievangelist.com
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There Is No Platform for API Governance

2026-07-20 · programmableweb · apievangelist.com
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Integrate data faster using natural language, Fivetran, and MCP | Blog | Fivetran

2026-07-18 · fivetran · www.fivetran.com
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API Design As I Use the API, and MCP, and Skills

2026-07-17 · programmableweb · apievangelist.com
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Why I Am Doubling Down on API Discovery and Governance

2026-07-17 · programmableweb · apievangelist.com
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Migrating a Claude Code skill from WebFetch to the new CircleCI CLI: lessons learned about tool and API design

2026-07-17 · architecture-pattern · microservices.io
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A guide to evaluating MCP governance platforms

2026-07-14 · merge · www.merge.dev
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Why API Governance Programs Break Down, and What the Successful Ones Do Differently

2026-07-13 · postman · blog.postman.com
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MCP tool design: Practical approaches and tradeoffs

2026-07-09 · amazon-bedrock · aws.amazon.com
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Building the Tooling for Consumer API Governance

2026-07-06 · programmableweb · apievangelist.com
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AsyncAPI Governance Board Elections 2026

2026-07-06 · async-apis · www.asyncapi.com
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API Governance Is 75% People Work

2026-07-05 · programmableweb · apievangelist.com
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Poisoned MCP Tool Descriptions Leak Agent Data: What Microsoft's Warning Means for Enterprise Governance

2026-07-03 · waxell · waxell.ai
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Amazon RDS log analysis: natural language queries with Kiro and MCP

2026-07-01 · amazon-dms · aws.amazon.com
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MCP Guardrails with AARM and Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit

2026-06-29 · agentgateway · agentgateway.dev
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AI Coding Tools and API Governance: Here's Why You Need Both.

2026-06-26 · swagger · swagger.io
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AI Coding Tools and API Governance: Here’s Why You Need Both.

2026-06-26 · smartbear · smartbear.com
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I Do Not Believe There Is One Tool or Approach to Solve API Governance

2026-06-25 · schema-validation · apievangelist.com
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OpenAPI Is the Unit of API Governance

2026-06-25 · schema-validation · apievangelist.com
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Consumer API Governance in an Agentic World

2026-06-24 · schema-validation · apievangelist.com
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OpenAPI Overlays Let One Products API Speak Four Languages

2026-06-23 · schema-validation · apievangelist.com
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MCP Gateway Comparison (2026): Enterprise Scalability, Security, and Tool Governance

2026-06-23 · requesty · www.requesty.ai
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The beauty of contact-first API design

2026-06-22 · highlight-io · highlight.io
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Operationalizing AI Governance: The FINOS AIGF MCP Server – An Intelligent Interface for AI in Financial Services

2026-06-21 · fdc3 · www.finos.org
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Claude Code Security Best Practices for Enterprise Teams: SSO, AI Gateways, and MCP Governance

2026-06-20 · truefoundry · www.truefoundry.com
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MCP Discovery & Governance

2026-06-19 · schema-validation · apievangelist.com
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Shadow MCP detection and governance

2026-06-16 · speakeasy · www.speakeasy.com
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OpenAPI Specification

2026-06-12 · sportmonks · www.sportmonks.com
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AI-Powered Power BI reporting: From design to deployment with agent skills (Preview)

2026-06-08 · microsoft-power-bi · community.fabric.microsoft.com
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How to Build an API Governance Framework That Works

2026-06-02 · treblle · treblle.com
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NVIDIA-Verified Agent Skills Provide Capability Governance for AI Agents

2026-05-28 · nvidia-nim · developer.nvidia.com
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MCP Governance with data protection: Govern agent tool calls and protect sensitive data

2026-05-28 · barndoor · barndoor.ai
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Superblocks MCP: AI Governance for Enterprise Vibe Coding

2026-05-27 · superblocks · www.superblocks.com
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API Design 101: A Beginner's Guide to Building APIs People Actually Want to Use

2026-05-26 · apinotes · apinotes.io
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What MCP Governance Actually Means in Production

2026-05-25 · ai-gateway · portkey.ai
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The 2026-07-28 MCP Specification Release Candidate

2026-05-21 · mcp · blog.modelcontextprotocol.io
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Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET

2026-05-21 · c-sharp · devblogs.microsoft.com
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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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Questioning Our API Governance Reality

2026-04-14 · posts · apievangelist.com
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REST API Design Guide for Billing: Best Practices 2026

2026-03-30 · lago · getlago.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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Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance

2026-02-12 · kubectl · kubernetes.io
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Beat the Invisible Man: Unforced errors in API design

2026-01-29 · redoc · redocly.com
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JSON Structure: A JSON schema language you'll love

2025-12-17 · microsoft-azure-event-hubs · techcommunity.microsoft.com
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Designing log-navigation tools in the Buildkite MCP server

2025-12-01 · buildkite · buildkite.com
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Anatomy of Helidon MCP + Ollama: Designing AI-Enhanced Java Microservices

2025-11-27 · helidon · medium.com
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Two approaches to API design - Resources vs Workflows

2025-10-28 · redoc · redocly.com
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Why does a well-designed developer portal make all the difference for your API adoption?

2025-10-24 · bump-sh · bump.sh
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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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July 2025 Agentic Access and MCP Content Round‑Up: Vulnerabilities, Governance & Growth

2025-08-05 · pomerium · www.pomerium.com
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Building to Last: A New Governance Model for MCP

2025-07-31 · mcp · blog.modelcontextprotocol.io
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Koyeb MCP Server: Interact with your Koyeb Resources in Natural Language

2025-07-24 · koyeb · www.koyeb.com
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The Complete MCP Experience: Full Specification Support in VS Code

2025-06-12 · visual-studio-code · code.visualstudio.com
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API Design Reviews Don't Have to be Hard

2025-05-15 · bump-sh · bump.sh
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How we extended the OpenAPI specification

2025-04-06 · scalar · scalar.com
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Leveraging the OpenAPI Specification for API Governance

2025-03-18 · bump-sh · bump.sh
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A Developer's Guide to API Design-First

2025-01-27 · bump-sh · bump.sh
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Improve OpenAPI security with defensive linting rules

2024-10-02 · redoc · redocly.com
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Best practices for building and adopting an API governance strategy

2024-08-29 · redoc · redocly.com
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No Abstractions: an Increase API design principle

2024-04-23 · increase · increase.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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API Design for GDPR Compliance

2023-12-15 · festivo-public-holidays · getfestivo.com
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WHOOP Developer Platform - Designing a resilient webhook system

2022-10-29 · whoop · engineering.whoop.com
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WHOOP Developer Platform - Designing the WHOOP API

2022-10-27 · whoop · engineering.whoop.com
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Creating OpenAPI Specifications

2022-02-10 · jargon · blog.jargon.sh
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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