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Claude Opus 5 (also works well with GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3 Pro)You just merged a pull request that adds a new POST /api/v1/refunds endpoint to your team's billing service. The endpoint works, tests pass, but nobody wrote documentation — and your team lead just asked you to get docs into the developer portal before external partners can start calling it next week. You have the code in front of you and forty-five minutes before your next meeting.Developer Tools

O Gerador de Documentação de API: Transforme Código de Endpoint Não Documentado em Documentação Pronta Para Publicação

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O Gerador de Documentação de API: Transforme Código de Endpoint Não Documentado em Documentação Pronta Para Publicação

Porque é que este prompt importa

Undocumented internal APIs generate a predictable tax on engineering time: the same few questions get asked in Slack every time someone new tries to integrate — what's the auth header called, is this field required, what does a 422 actually mean here — and each thread costs the answering engineer real focus time they don't get back. Worse, when partner-facing endpoints ship without documented error responses, integration bugs get traced back to a misunderstood status code instead of a misread field, turning into support tickets that a five-minute doc-writing pass would have prevented entirely.

Para que o usamos

You just merged a pull request that adds a new POST /api/v1/refunds endpoint to your team's billing service. The endpoint works, tests pass, but nobody wrote documentation — and your team lead just asked you to get docs into the developer portal before external partners can start calling it next week. You have the code in front of you and forty-five minutes before your next meeting.

Prompt

Act as a senior API technical writer who has documented REST APIs for developer platforms used by thousands of external engineers.

Context — here is what I'm working with:
- I'm going to paste the source code for [NUMBER OF ENDPOINTS] API endpoint(s), written in [LANGUAGE/FRAMEWORK, E.G. EXPRESS.JS, FASTAPI, SPRING BOOT]. The code includes the route handler, any middleware, and validation logic.
- [OPTIONAL: PASTE AN EXISTING DOC PAGE OR STYLE GUIDE HERE FOR TONE/FORMAT CONSISTENCY]

Code to document:
[PASTE YOUR ENDPOINT CODE HERE]

Task: Do this in two passes.
Pass 1 — Extract the contract: Read the code and infer, strictly from what's actually there, the HTTP method and path, the authentication requirement, every path/query/body parameter with its type and whether it's required, the success response shape and status code, and every error condition the code actually handles with its status code and message.
Pass 2 — Write the documentation: Using only what you extracted in Pass 1, produce publish-ready API documentation.

Constraints:
- Do not invent, assume, or infer any parameter, behavior, rate limit, or error case that isn't evidenced in the code itself.
- If something is ambiguous or the code doesn't make a behavior clear (e.g., what happens if an optional field is malformed), flag it under a "Needs Clarification" section instead of guessing.
- No marketing language ("powerful", "seamless", "easy to use") — this is reference documentation, not a landing page.
- Use standard HTTP status code conventions unless the code deviates from them, in which case document the actual deviation.
- Every example must be a working, copy-pasteable example, not a placeholder like "..." where a real value should be.

Output format (Markdown):
1. Endpoint summary — one line: what this endpoint does
2. Authentication — what's required, referencing the actual auth mechanism in the code
3. Request — method + full path; path parameters table (name, type, required, description); query parameters table; request body schema (if applicable) with types and required/optional
4. Response — success: status code + example JSON response; errors: table of status code, error condition, example error response
5. Example request — a working curl command with realistic (not placeholder) values
6. Needs Clarification — bullet list of anything ambiguous in the source code (omit this section entirely if nothing is ambiguous)

Resultado

Endpoint summary
Processes a full or partial refund for a completed payment.

Authentication
Requires a bearer token with the payments:write scope, passed in the Authorization header. Requests without this scope return a 403.

Request
POST /api/v1/refunds

Request body:

  • payment_id (string, required) — the ID of the original payment to refund
  • amount_cents (integer, optional) — amount to refund in cents; if omitted, the full remaining payment amount is refunded
  • reason (string, optional) — one of duplicate, fraudulent, requested_by_customer; defaults to requested_by_customer if omitted

Response
Success (200):

{
  "refund_id": "rf_8h2j9k",
  "payment_id": "pay_4f5e6d",
  "amount_cents": 2500,
  "status": "succeeded",
  "created_at": "2026-08-10T09:12:00Z"
}

Errors:

  • 404payment_id does not match an existing payment
  • 409 — refund amount exceeds the remaining refundable balance on the payment
  • 422amount_cents is present but not a positive integer

Example request

curl -X POST https://api.example.com/v1/refunds \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_51H..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"payment_id": "pay_4f5e6d", "amount_cents": 2500, "reason": "requested_by_customer"}'

Needs Clarification

  • The code does not specify what happens if a refund is requested on a payment that has already been fully refunded — worth confirming with the endpoint's author before this ships to partners.

Um prompt em duas passagens que lê o código do seu endpoint, extrai o contrato real, e escreve documentação de referência que sinaliza ambiguidade em vez de adivinhar — construído para o vão entre “o código funciona” e “a documentação está no ar”.

Caso de Uso

Você acabou de mesclar um pull request que adiciona um novo endpoint POST /api/v1/refunds ao serviço de faturamento da sua equipe. O endpoint funciona, os testes passam, mas ninguém escreveu documentação — e seu líder de equipe acabou de pedir para você colocar a documentação no portal de desenvolvedores antes que parceiros externos comecem a chamá-lo na próxima semana. Você tem o código à sua frente e quarenta e cinco minutos antes da próxima reunião.

Por Que Isso Importa

APIs internas não documentadas geram um imposto previsível sobre o tempo de engenharia: as mesmas poucas perguntas são feitas no Slack toda vez que alguém novo tenta integrar — qual é o nome do header de autenticação, esse campo é obrigatório, o que um 422 realmente significa aqui — e cada thread custa ao engenheiro que responde tempo de foco real que ele nunca recupera. Pior ainda, quando endpoints voltados para parceiros são lançados sem respostas de erro documentadas, bugs de integração são rastreados até um código de status mal compreendido em vez de um campo mal lido, transformando-se em tickets de suporte que uma passagem de cinco minutos escrevendo documentação teria evitado completamente.

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