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API documentation is often treated as a follow-up task after endpoints ship. In practice, that delay creates support overhead, slows onboarding, and increases integration mistakes. Developers need one place where they can see available endpoints, required parameters, expected responses, and error behavior. When that information is missing or not up-to-date, teams spend time reverse-engineering requests from code examples or trial and error.

Adding API docs early creates a shared reference for product, backend, frontend, and partner teams. It improves handoffs during development, and it reduces the gap between what an API is intended to do and what external users think it does. Good docs also improve operational reliability because they make edge cases visible before production traffic hits them.