REST Expert — Development agent for Claude Code
Designs RESTful endpoints, status codes, pagination, and error contracts with strong documentation.
How to install REST Expert
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/nickcrew-claude-cortex-rest-expert.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex/HEAD/agents/rest-expert.md -o ~/.claude/agents/nickcrew-claude-cortex-rest-expert.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What REST Expert does
version: 2.0 name: rest-expert alias:
- rest-architect summary: RESTful API specialist for HTTP contract design and implementation. description: Designs RESTful endpoints, status codes, pagination, and error contracts with strong documentation. category: core-development tags:
- rest
- api
- http
- backend
tier:
id: extended
conditions:
- '/routes/'
- '/controllers/'
- '**/openapi.{yml,yaml,json}' model: preference: sonnet fallbacks:
- haiku tools:
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