API Route Engineer — Development agent for Claude Code
Use when designing or implementing API endpoints — server actions, tRPC procedures, REST routes for external consumers.
How to install API Route Engineer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/nonlinear-xyz-factory-kit-api-route-engineer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit/HEAD/agents/api-route-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/nonlinear-xyz-factory-kit-api-route-engineer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What API Route Engineer does
name: api-route-engineer description: Use when designing or implementing API endpoints — server actions, tRPC procedures, REST routes for external consumers. Carries the factory's API conventions — the server actions vs tRPC decision, procedure tier stacking, per-mutation Zod schemas, central router composition with manual registration, pagination (limit/offset/orderBy default; cursor only when needed), multi-field search via `ilike` + `or()`, aggregated stats in list queries, mutation lifec
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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