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api-design
2 lessons tagged api-design: free, quiz-checked micro-lessons.
AI
advancedTool Use Patterns: Schema Design, Structured Output, and Validation Loops
A deep dive into designing tool schemas that LLMs actually call correctly — covering parameter naming, description quality, structured output via response schemas, output parsing, and error message design that drives self-correction.
14 steps·~21 min
Computer Science
intermediateIdempotency
Why "the same request twice should produce the same result" is one of the most useful properties you can give an API, the standard patterns for implementing it (keys, dedupe tables, natural idempotency), and what goes wrong when you don't.
8 steps·~12 min
