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Public API Launch Checklist

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Prepare an API for external developers.

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Score the readiness of my API for external developers. API and audience: [API_AND_AUDIENCE]. Current state of documentation, authentication, limits, monitoring, support, and legal terms: [CURRENT_STATE].

Score each area from 0 (absent), 1 (draft), 2 (adequate), 3 (launch ready) with evidence. If I gave no information, mark "unknown" and ask:
1. Documentation: reference, guides, quickstart, runnable examples, error catalog.
2. Authentication and authorization: key management, scopes, rotation, revocation.
3. Security: input validation, transport security, abuse protection, security review or penetration test.
4. Rate limits and quotas: documented, with headers that report usage.
5. Stability: versioning policy, deprecation policy, changelog.
6. Reliability: uptime targets, status page, incident process.
7. Observability: per-customer logs, metrics, alerts.
8. Developer experience: sandbox, test data, SDKs or client examples, consistent errors, idempotency, pagination.
9. Support: channels, response times, and a feedback loop.
10. Legal and commercial: terms of use, privacy terms, pricing, data processing terms [VERIFY].
11. Onboarding: sign-up flow and time to the first successful call.

Total out of 33, list blockers (any area scoring 0 or 1 in security, authentication, or documentation), and give a 4-week plan to launch. Include a soft launch plan with five friendly developers.

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