# API Landscape Assessment

## Scope And Decision

- Assessment date, scope, and evidence sources:
- Decision or problem this assessment must support:
- Accountable product, API, platform, security, and architecture owners:
- Known evidence gaps and confidence:

## Inventory

| Surface | Capability/authority | Audience/exposure | Style and contract | Lifecycle | Owner/contact | Consumers | Evidence/gaps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | | | | | | |

## Coherence And Discoverability

- Shared domain concepts and authoritative owners:
- Duplicates, wrappers, forks, shadow surfaces, or intentional overlap:
- Rationale for keeping or consolidating each overlap:
- Catalog, contract, examples, support path, and lifecycle links:
- Search failures, stale records, undocumented consumers, or unowned surfaces:

## Lifecycle And Governance

- New/change intake and decision locality:
- Baseline standards and risk factors that increase review depth:
- Exceptions, compensating controls, owner, and review condition:
- Consumer feedback, reliability, adoption, support, and compatibility evidence:
- Deprecation successor, migration support, telemetry, sunset criteria, and pause path:
- Retirement evidence, residual dependency check, communication, and recovery path:

## Topology And Failure Boundaries

- North-south, east-west, ingress, and egress flows:
- Gateway/ingress responsibilities and owner:
- Mesh/service-to-service responsibilities and owner:
- Routing, identity, policy, transformation, retry, timeout, and limit placement:
- Observability and correlation at each boundary:
- Failure behavior, fail-open/closed choices, ambiguous completion, and rollback:

## Findings And Actions

| Priority | Finding/evidence | Consumer or operational impact | Action | Owner | Due condition/status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | | | | |

## Verdict

- Landscape status: coherent, conditional, blocked, or incomplete:
- Decisions approved and decisions escalated:
- Required contract, platform, product, security, or architecture handoffs:
- Reassessment trigger: