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api-recon-and-docs
API reconnaissance and documentation review playbook. Use when discovering endpoints, schemas, versions, OpenAPI specs, hidden docs, and surface area for API testing.
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# SKILL: API Recon and Docs — Endpoints, Schemas, and Version Surface
> **AI LOAD INSTRUCTION**: Use this skill first when the target is a REST, mobile, or GraphQL API and you need to enumerate endpoints, documentation, versions, and hidden surface area before exploitation.
## 1. PRIMARY GOALS
1. Discover all reachable API entrypoints.
2. Extract schemas, optional fields, and role differences.
3. Identify old versions, mobile paths, GraphQL endpoints, and undocumented parameters.
## 2. RECON CHECKLIST
### JavaScript and client mining
