Tooling and Ecosystem
In addition to an API design specification, AEPs also provide an ecosystem of tooling to help produce and interact with these APIs.
Get started quickly with these essential tools:
Developer Tools
- terraform-provider-aep - Terraform provider for AEP-compliant APIs
- aepcli - Command-line interface for AEP-compliant APIs
- aep-explorer - Interactive web UI for AEP-compliant APIs
- aepc - Generates AEP-compliant RPCs from proto messages
Linting & Validation
- aep-proto-linter - Lint gRPC definitions for AEP compliance
- aep-openapi-linter - Lint OpenAPI definitions for AEP compliance
AI
- aep-mcp-server - MCP server for AEP-compliant APIs
- aep.dev/llms.txt - llms.txt for AEP, to provide LLMs with knowledge of AEP guidelines.
Community Tools
We welcome contributions from the community! This section showcases tools built by the AEP community that extend or complement the official tooling ecosystem.
- aep-typespec - Reference implementation using TypeSpec to generate AEP-compliant OpenAPI Schema.
Diagram
Section titled “Diagram”The following is a diagram that illustrates an end-to-end workflow, including nodes of tooling that exists, or is intended to be created for the project.
Some of the tools in the diagram are not maintained by the AEP project. The diagram is intended to be a complete representation of tools available to help a user understand how the tools fit into a development workflow.
The service generation tooling looks like:
While the client tooling for an AEP-compliant compatible API includes: