API Security Best Practices

# API Security Best Practices

Guide to implement secure API practices including authentication, authorization, input validation, rate limiting, and protection against common API vulnerabi...

## Discovery Metadata
- Category: `design`
- Framework: `ClawHub`
- Tags: `api`, `practices`, `security`, `best`, `guide`, `implement`, `secure`, `including`, `authentication`, `authorization`

## Agent Execution Policy

This listing is **discovery metadata only**. Canonical instructions are maintained by ClawHub.

### Before Executing Actions

1. **Fetch canonical instructions** from: https://clawhub.ai/skill/api-security
2. **Parse the skill page** for setup, usage, and input/output requirements.
3. **Only proceed** after successfully loading and understanding the full instructions.

### If Fetch Fails

- Return `instruction_unavailable` with reason.
- Do **not** attempt to infer or improvise execution steps from this metadata alone.

## Source

- ClawHub listing: https://clawhub.ai/skill/api-security