http-rest-fundamentals Weapon

Procedural arsenal for http-rest-fundamentals-guardian, the HTTP and REST protocol authority in the Guild AI Guild.

This weapon encodes the practical reference material needed to audit HTTP and REST usage authoritatively against RFC semantics. It is organized around eight concern areas, each with its own guide, plus templates for common deliverables and worked examples for the most frequently misunderstood scenarios.

Paired Guardian: ai-tools/agents/http-rest-fundamentals-guardian.md Command Brief: ai-tools/command-briefs/http-rest-fundamentals-guardian-command-brief.md

First action when this weapon is loaded

Read these in order before doing anything:

1. guides/00-principles.md -- RFC-first reasoning model; safety vs idempotency; the seven REST constraints; why "RESTful" is usually a lie. This is the foundation every other guide builds on.
2. guides/10-failure-modes.md (if it exists; otherwise check reports/README.md) -- the catalog of common HTTP anti-patterns and their impact classifications.
3. The guide most relevant to the current task (see index below).