API PLANNING AND TEST WORKSHEET
Space Office | Original planning template | 2026-10-28
Guide: https://www.spaceoffice.ai/blog/api

1. TASK AND BOUNDARY
Business task / user / useful result:
Read versus write operation / side effects / explicit exclusions:
Current source of truth / receiving application / owner:
Freshness required / what the interface cannot establish:

2. DOCUMENTED CONTRACT
Provider / exact documentation URL / checked date / version:
Supported plan and operation / approved base URL / environment:
Method / path / query / headers / body:
Required fields / types / allowed values / units / time zones:
Response status / schema / absent, null and empty values:
Pagination / rate limits / timeouts / version-change policy:
Access mechanism / operation and object-level permissions:
Never place real confidential credentials in this worksheet.

3. FICTIONAL AVAILABILITY EXAMPLE
GET /v1/availability?item=projector-01&date=2026-11-12
Illustrative response map:
  item_id: projector-01
  date: 2026-11-12
  available_units: 2
  as_of: 2026-10-28T09:00:00Z
This is teaching notation, not a working provider endpoint.
Match the returned item/date, interpret quantity and check freshness.
A lookup does not reserve equipment, accept payment, or guarantee stock.
Zero available units is different from missing or uninterpretable data.

4. FIELD MAP
Source field | destination | meaning | transformation | validation
Unknown or missing value / defined application behavior:
Date/time handling / stable identifiers versus display names:
Data minimization / storage and log rules:

5. PERMITTED TEST CASES
Case | approved fixture/account | expected technical result |
expected customer behavior | actual result | evidence | owner
Normal lookup / valid empty or zero availability:
Missing input / invalid date / unsupported value:
Unknown or undisclosed resource:
Unauthenticated request / authenticated but unauthorized object:
Malformed or unexpected response / absent field:
Rate limit / temporary service error / timeout / no response:
Write timeout and duplicate-prevention rule, if writes are in scope:
Only use approved environments, accounts, and records.
Do not probe a real provider or unrelated account without authorization.

6. OPERATING DECISIONS
Customer message for unavailable, stale or uncertain results:
Read-on-demand / polling / supported webhook / permitted export:
Retry and timeout rule / relevant provider guidance:
Who owns credentials, rotation, revocation and access review:
Monitoring / escalation / pause or rollback / provider changes:

7. SPACE OFFICE PACKET AND HUMAN RELEASE
Lithium: backend API and full-stack implementation work.
Carbon: functional, security and API test planning/evidence.
Hydrogen: coordination and review against the contract and task.
Human: grant access; verify data handling, permissions and results;
approve deployment and consequential requests.
Exact reviewed documentation, configuration and implementation version:
Open questions / access gaps / reviewer / approval / date: