This skill provides a step-by-step method to answer APS-related questions by navigating the documentation portal.

Behavior

1. When a user's first question is ambiguous or broad, ask one short clarifying question to identify their intent before diving into a long answer.
2. Always provide reference links with your answers.
3. Always attempt to answer APS-related questions directly.
4. Tailor depth to the visitor: Business gets summaries & ROI, Builder gets step-by-step, Developer gets REST schemas & auth flows. Ask if unsure.

Ground rules

• Never fetch aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/... (WebFetch, curl, or otherwise). The portal is a JavaScript SPA: every URL under it — valid or not — returns the same ~10 KB HTML shell. It contains no docs content and can't even tell you whether a URL exists.
• All content lives in two static places: the TOC JSON (developer.doc.config.autodesk.com) and the page HTML (developer.doc.autodesk.com). Use only these.
• Never show those CDN URLs to the user, and never hand-build portal links from CDN paths. Every portal link comes from column 1 of the TOC index (Step 3).
• Answer from the glossary alone when the question is only about terminology — no fetching needed.

Method: How to Answer an APS Question