# Build Darkit Gin APIs Faster

Building Gin APIs often requires repeated setup for auth, caching, documentation, and real-time events. This skill guides Claude, Codex, and Claude Code through Darkit Gin patterns with focused examples.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add darkit/darkit-gin
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: darkit-darkit-gin
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: bfbd953a31fd39b2c9bdfd5afef9b7d2e0c25412dfbbc25858606441d860d445
- Author: DarkiT
- GitHub username: DarkiT
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/DarkiT/gin/tree/master/docs/darkit-gin
- Ref: 0519034dad657fb1f7706e0550e962beeda73fdf
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: network, scripts, external\_commands, filesystem, env\_access
- Quality score: 78
- Quality tier: bronze
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/darkit-darkit-gin
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/darkit-darkit-gin/manifest

## Capabilities

- Explains option-based router setup with JWT, CORS, cache, SSE, OpenAPI, rate limiting, request IDs, and timeouts.
- Shows RESTful routing, CRUD resources, API version groups, and unified response helpers.
- Guides JWT login, protected route middleware, roles, refresh tokens, cookies, and logout flows.
- Covers SSE hubs, client subscriptions, broadcast patterns, notifications, and reconnect behavior.
- Documents OpenAPI and Swagger setup, annotations, schemas, generated clients, and export workflows.
- Provides cache usage, TTL design, invalidation, warmup, compression, and monitoring examples.

## Use Cases

- Start a New API: Create a Darkit Gin project outline with router options, health checks, REST routes, and response conventions.
- Add Auth and Middleware: Plan JWT login, protected route groups, CORS, rate limits, request IDs, and safe error responses.
- Document and Operate Services: Prepare OpenAPI annotations, Swagger routes, cache settings, SSE events, and production review checklists.

## Prompt Templates

### Create a Starter API

```
Use the darkit-gin skill to design a minimal user API. Include router options, health checks, one resource route, and setup steps.
```

### Add JWT Protection

```
Use the darkit-gin skill to add JWT login and protected routes. Include token lifetime, role checks, logout, and safe secret handling.
```

### Plan Realtime Updates

```
Use the darkit-gin skill to design SSE notifications for account events. Include client subscriptions, broadcast rules, reconnect behavior, and cleanup.
```

### Review Production Readiness

```
Use the darkit-gin skill to review a production API design. Check CORS, rate limits, cache invalidation, OpenAPI coverage, database settings, and observability.
```

## Limitations

- It is documentation guidance, not a runnable framework package inside the skill.
- Examples use placeholders and local URLs that must be replaced for production.
- It does not validate the Darkit Gin version or dependencies used by an application.
- Security examples still require project-specific review, secret management, and deployment hardening.

## Best Practices

- Load JWT secrets, database credentials, and deployment URLs from managed configuration.
- Use Darkit Gin response helpers, validation tags, and middleware consistently across all handlers.
- Review CORS, TLS, rate limits, cache invalidation, and OpenAPI annotations before release.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not copy placeholder secrets, passwords, or local URLs into production configuration.
- Do not expose protected routes without authentication middleware and role checks.
- Do not return raw database errors or sensitive fields in API responses.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-09T12:27:54.467\+00:00
- Summary: The skill is documentation-only, and most static findings are safe examples, local URLs, Go imports, Go struct tags, or visible test commands. I confirmed one high-severity documentation risk: the Docker Compose example hardcodes a PostgreSQL password in DATABASE\_URL. No prompt-injection, malware intent, or unauthorized exfiltration language was found.

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