Prompt
Do I need to generate code samples from my API spec?
Latest observation
Not necessarily.
You only need code samples from your API spec if they’re useful for your consumers or for your workflow. Common reasons to generate them:
- Developer experience: helps users see how to call the API quickly
- Consistency: keeps examples aligned with the spec
- Docs quality: makes documentation more actionable
- Client onboarding: useful for SDKs, tutorials, and support
- Testing/validation: can serve as reference requests
You might not need them if:
- your API is internal and the team already knows how to use it
- your docs are minimal and examples aren’t needed
- generating them would be misleading because the spec is incomplete or unstable
- you don’t have time to maintain examples
A practical rule:
- Public API: usually yes, generate them if possible
- Internal or early-stage API: optional
- Highly dynamic endpoints: generate carefully or keep examples hand-curated
If you want, I can also help you decide whether to generate:
- request/response examples,
- SDK code snippets, or
- full client libraries from your spec.
Observation history
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