SKILL-045 APIs, integrations, and automation Locked skill

Internal / admin APIs

An admin endpoint is not a normal endpoint with a role check bolted on — it lives behind a separate authenticated scope, audits every action, and is never publicly routable.

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What this skill helps you build

Privileged endpoints for support and operations — gated by admin auth, fully audited, impersonation flagged, and never publicly exposed.

The production takeaway

An admin endpoint is not a normal endpoint with a role check bolted on — it lives behind a separate authenticated scope, audits every action, and is never publicly routable.

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Inside this skill

The full skill expands these implementation areas with decisions, edge cases, prompts, tests, and framework-specific code.

APIs, integrations, and automation
What this helps you build

A safe internal API for the people who run your product — support agents, operations staff, on call engineers. These endpoints do things normal users can't: look up any account, re

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APIs, integrations, and automation
When to use this

Reach for an internal/admin API the moment your team needs to do something to a customer's data that the customer can't do themselves . Concretely: Support needs to inspect or fix

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APIs, integrations, and automation
The core idea

An admin API is a separate, privileged surface , not your public API with an if user.admin? sprinkled on top. Three properties define it: Strong auth, separate scope. Admin request

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Paid access includes the complete skill body, implementation prompt, common mistakes, production checklist, and code examples where this skill includes them.