API Improvement Proposals
Focused design documents for flexible API development.
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Welcome

API Improvement Proposals, or AIPs, are design documents that summarize API design decisions. They also provide a framework and system to document extensions of API design rules and practices specific to their team.

Curious about the basics?

AIPs are a combination of design guidance and a system we use to manage and track that guidance. Learn more about how the AIP program works in the first AIP!
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Interested in helping with AIPs? Contribute by proposing new guidance, commenting on existing AIPs, or fixing typos. All contributions are welcome!
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