Overview

The Design Connector API provides Allternit Design with skill discovery, adapter detection, adapter spawning, and plugin installation. It vendors the Open Design connector catalog in-process and points live connector actions to the owned connector standard at /api/v1/connectors. Adapter detection and spawn helpers look for local agent-tool configurations without requiring third-party keys.

Base URL

For local development:

Authentication

Design routes inherit the standard bearer-token auth middleware. See Authentication.

Endpoints

Connector catalog pointer

List in-process catalog

Returns the vendored Open Design connector catalog. Live connect/execute is owned and routed through /api/v1/connectors/:id/connect and /api/v1/connectors/:id/execute.

Connect pointer

Request body

Example response

Discover skills

Scans local skill directories for Open Design skills. Results are cached for five seconds.

Query parameters

Skill object

Example response

Adapters

List adapter kinds

Returns the adapter kinds the gateway knows how to detect and spawn.

AdapterKind object

Detect adapters

Scans the local machine for available adapters.

Request body

Example response

Spawn an adapter

Starts the adapter process in the background.

Request body

Example response

Install a plugin

Writes a plugin manifest to the target adapter’s skill/plugin directory.

Request body

Example response

Error codes