{"slug":"api-integration-contract-review","title":"api-integration-contract-review","summary":"Reviews frontend-to-backend API contracts — BFF route handlers and direct backend calls — for data-minimization, server-side object-level authorization enforcement, error-shape leakage, CORS misconfiguration, and backward-compatible versioning before they ship.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:10.896351Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: api-integration-contract-review\ndescription: Reviews frontend-to-backend API contracts — BFF route handlers and direct backend calls — for data-minimization, server-side object-level authorization enforcement, error-shape leakage, CORS misconfiguration, and backward-compatible versioning before they ship.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-07-02\"\ncategory: architecture</h2>\n<h1>API Integration Contract Review</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Review any new or changed API contract consumed by the frontend — a direct backend call or a BFF (backend-for-frontend) route handler — for data-minimization (no field returned to a client that the caller is not authorized to see), object-level authorization enforced independently on the server, error-shape safety (no upstream internals leaking to the client), CORS correctness, and backward-compatible versioning for existing consumers. This skill exists so those four concerns get a disciplined, security-severity review every time a contract is introduced or changed, instead of being waved through as \"just wiring.\"</p>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>review a new API endpoint or BFF route handler before it ships,</li>\n<li>review a change to an existing response shape, status-code contract, or error format,</li>\n<li>audit whether the frontend fetches more fields than it renders,</li>\n<li>investigate a reported data-exposure or authorization-bypass (BOLA) concern,</li>\n<li>review CORS configuration for an endpoint that accepts credentialed requests.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Do not use this skill for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the frontend's caching/store logic once data has already arrived — route to <code>state-management-decision-review</code>,</li>\n<li>BFF-vs-direct-call topology or new-BFF-service ownership decisions at the platform level — route to <code>frontend-platform-architecture-review</code>; use this skill for the contract itself once the boundary decision is made,</li>\n<li>SSR/hydration mechanics — route to the relevant SSR skill,</li>\n<li>general Next.js data-fetching patterns unrelated to authorization/data-shape — route to <code>nextjs-app-router-data-fetching-review</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Context7 Documentation Protocol</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Before assessing a Next.js Route Handler's caching configuration, query Next.js docs for the current caching-directive semantics (<code>dynamic</code>, <code>revalidate</code>, <code>fetchCache</code>, <code>runtime</code>) against the repo's confirmed major version — read <code>package.json</code> first. As of Next.js 15+, <code>GET</code> Route Handlers are no longer cached by default; caching requires an explicit <code>export const dynamic = 'force-static'</code>. A route relying on pre-15 default-caching behavior to protect against overexposure (or that assumes it is uncached when it is actually configured <code>force-static</code>) is a version-sensitive misconfiguration risk, not a stylistic detail — verify the version before trusting either claim.</li>\n<li>Matched library ID for this skill's default grounding: Next.js is <code>/vercel/next.js</code>. Resolve fresh via <code>resolve-library-id</code> for any other backend/BFF framework named in the review (Express, Fastify, NestJS, etc.) rather than assuming Next.js conventions transfer.</li>\n<li>Before approving a query-key or cache-key design that scopes data by session/role, query TanStack Query docs for query-key structuring guidance — object-based key segments are order-independent and <code>undefined</code> properties are dropped during serialization, so a key intended to separate two roles/users can silently collide if one property is <code>undefined</code> for one caller and omitted for another. Matched library ID: <code>/tanstack/query</code>.</li>\n<li>Documentation proves what the framework <em>supports</em> (e.g., that <code>force-static</code> exists and changes default caching). It does not prove this specific route handler is configured correctly, or that authorization is actually enforced server-side. Pair every Context7-grounded capability claim with a repo-evidence check (the actual route handler code, the actual authorization middleware) before treating a finding as resolved.</li>\n<li>Never approve a version-sensitive caching or contract claim without Context7 verification. If Context7 is unavailable, label the claim <code>documentation-based — unverified this session</code> and require confirmation before final sign-off.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Treat every unjustified field in a response as a data-minimization defect, not a style note. \"We return the whole object because it's simpler\" is not a justification.</li>\n<li>Treat client-supplied identifiers (a URL param, a body field, a bearer-token claim the client can influence) as untrusted for authorization decisions. Object-level authorization must be re-derived server-side from the authenticated session, independent of what the client claims to be requesting.</li>\n<li>Escalate every finding of client-side-only authorization enforcement or excessive data exposure to security severity, not a style/lint-level note — these map directly to OWASP API Security Top 10 categories (Broken Object Level Authorization, Excessive Data Exposure).</li>\n<li>Treat raw upstream error forwarding (stack traces, internal hostnames, DB driver errors, vendor error payloads) as a blocking finding. Error responses reaching the client must be shaped and sanitized, not passed through for \"easier debugging.\"</li>\n<li>Treat wildcard CORS (<code>Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *</code>) combined with <code>Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true</code> as an automatic blocking finding — this combination is invalid per the CORS spec in browsers that enforce it correctly, and where it is not rejected outright it defeats the purpose of credentialed requests.</li>\n<li>For a breaking contract change (removed field, renamed field, changed status-code meaning, changed error shape), require an identified list of existing consumers and a stated deprecation window before approval. Do not accept \"nothing should be calling this yet\" without evidence.</li>\n<li>Never execute, build, or run application code as part of this review; this is a static-review skill (Read/Grep/Glob only) — verdicts are based on route-handler code, authorization middleware, and documented contract evidence, not live requests you generate yourself.</li>\n<li>Label every claim <code>repo evidence</code>, <code>Context7-verified</code>, <code>documentation-based — unverified this session</code>, or <code>inference</code>. Documentation proves framework capability; it does not prove this endpoint's authorization is correctly wired.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/workflow-and-output.md\">Contract review workflow and verdict contract</a> — use for the step-by-step review procedure, the block / block-with-conditions / approve decision tree, and the required output shape.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/authorization-and-data-minimization.md\">Authorization and data-minimization patterns</a> — use when the contract involves per-object access control, role-scoped fields, or a BOLA/excessive-data-exposure concern; grounds server-side enforcement patterns and field-justification review.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/error-shape-cors-versioning.md\">Error shape, CORS, and versioning</a> — use when reviewing error-handling code, CORS configuration, or a breaking/backward-compatible contract change with existing consumers.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the endpoint/route handler and consumer(s) in scope,</li>\n<li>a per-field data-minimization justification (or the unjustified fields flagged),</li>\n<li>the object-level authorization enforcement mechanism and whether it is independently server-verified,</li>\n<li>error-shape and CORS findings, each labeled by severity,</li>\n<li>verdict (approve / approve-with-conditions / block) with the specific unresolved conditions if any,</li>\n<li>versioning/deprecation plan status for any breaking change,</li>\n<li>every version-sensitive framework claim labeled <code>Context7-verified</code> or <code>documentation-based — unverified this session</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1626,"isText":true},{"path":"references/authorization-and-data-minimization.md","sizeBytes":6681,"isText":true},{"path":"references/error-shape-cors-versioning.md","sizeBytes":6799,"isText":true},{"path":"references/workflow-and-output.md","sizeBytes":4175,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":7765,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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