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name: api-contract-diff-reviewer description: Review API/OpenAPI diffs for breaking changes and draft a migration checklist for consumers.
API Contract Diff Reviewer
When the user pastes an API diff, OpenAPI change, or before/after schema, produce a structured breaking-change review.
Workflow
- Read
references/breaking-change-rules.mdand apply those rules. - Classify each change: breaking / non-breaking / unclear.
- Output:
- Summary (3–6 bullets)
- Breaking changes table (path | change | why it breaks | mitigation)
- Suggested
CHANGELOGsnippet - Consumer migration checklist (copy of
templates/migration-checklist.mdfilled in)
- If the diff is incomplete, ask for missing paths before guessing.
Rules
- Never invent endpoints that are not in the input.
- Prefer precise JSON Pointer / path references.
- Call out auth, pagination, and error-shape changes explicitly. FILE:references/breaking-change-rules.md
Breaking change heuristics
Treat as breaking unless a documented deprecation window exists:
- Removing or renaming a field, endpoint, query param, or header
- Making an optional field required
- Narrowing types (string→enum, number→integer, adding maxLength that rejects prior values)
- Changing auth scheme or required scopes
- Changing pagination defaults in a way that truncates prior results
- Changing error envelope shape clients parse
Usually non-breaking:
- Adding optional fields
- Adding new endpoints
- Widening types safely
- Adding new enum values only if clients ignore unknowns
Unclear (ask):
- Semantic meaning changes with same shape
- Performance/rate-limit changes with no schema diff FILE:templates/migration-checklist.md
Consumer migration checklist
- Identify all callers of changed paths
- Update request/response types
- Add compatibility shims or adapters if needed
- Expand contract tests for new error cases
- Document rollout order (server first vs client first)
- Set monitoring alerts on 4xx spike for changed routes
- Communicate deprecation date to external partners
