aip-dev/google.aip.dev resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A repository of API Improvement Proposals (AIPs), design documents describing how Google designs and standardizes its APIs, published at aip.dev. It serves as a source of truth for API guidance and can be adopted by other organizations for their own API standards.

Use cases

• learn how Google designs its APIs
• adopt API design guidelines for my company
• find guidance on REST API resource design
• standardize API naming and error conventions across teams
• write custom API guidance for my organization
• reference API design best practices when reviewing PRs

When to choose

• you need authoritative, battle-tested API design guidance
• your organization wants a starting point for its own API standards
• you are designing REST/gRPC APIs and want consistent conventions

When to avoid

• you need executable tooling or linters rather than written guidance
• you want guidance for a specific framework rather than general API design

Facets

learning-resource · maturity active

documentation apis documentation developer-tools api-design api-guidelines design-documents aip standards web-server

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