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contract-first
Coordinate frontend/backend or service-to-service work through one authoritative machine-checkable contract (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Protocol Buffers, or JSON Schema), with generated consumer types and contract-verified integration. Use when parallel consumer and provider work must evolve an API or event schema without field drift, mock/production shape mismatch, or one side silently redefining the interface.
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# Contract-First Collaboration
Coordinate frontend/backend or service-to-service work through one authoritative,
machine-checkable contract. Consumers state what they need, providers implement
that shape, and both sides verify against the same artifact before integration.
This skill governs how teams change a boundary. It complements `api-design`,
which governs what a good API looks like, and `ai-regression-testing`, which
guards fixed bugs from returning.
## When to Activate
- Frontend and backend work will proceed in parallel.
- Two or more services exchange API payloads, events, or commands.