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---
name: api-service
description: "Use the DeepFace Flask API, Gunicorn service, request formats,
bearer auth, Docker guidance, and streaming/video workflows."
disable-model-invocation: true
metadata:
disco-role: operating
license: MIT
---
# Api Service
Use this sub-skill when the user task needs Flask app factory, `/verify`, `/represent`, `/analyze`, `/register`, `/search`, `/build/index`, bearer auth, JSON/form/multipart request formats, service env vars, Docker/service caveats, and DeepFace.stream.
## Route Here
- Answer package-user questions for the owned DeepFace functions and parameters.
- Select safe minimal code patterns before running heavy model builds, weight downloads, database connections, Docker, or webcam/video operations.
- Diagnose workflow-specific errors using the linked troubleshooting reference.
- Cross-link to sibling sub-skills when a workflow spans detection, recognition, persistence, serving, and optional model/dependency setup.
## Reroute
Underlying workflow semantics route to sibling sub-skills; database service details go to `../datastore-search/SKILL.md`; optional model and weight issues go to `../model-and-backend-selection/SKILL.md`.
## First Checks
1. Confirm `from deepface import DeepFace` works; otherwise use `../../references/troubleshooting.md`.
2. Identify whether the user wants static guidance, code generation, environment diagnosis, or runtime execution.
3. Keep network/model-weight/database/camera side effects explicit and ask before running them in constrained environments.
4. Use the nearest bundled helper for safe validation before recommending a heavier run.
## Reference Map
- `references/api-reference.md` documents signatures, parameters, outputs, and API-specific behavior for this sub-skill.
- `references/workflows.md` or the focused workflow reference contains practical recipes and decision patterns.
- `references/troubleshooting.md` maps common errors to concrete recovery steps.
- `scripts/deepface_api_request.py` is the safe bundled helper for this sub-skill.
## Safety
Do not tell future agents to open or run original repository tests, examples, notebooks, scripts, or local checkout files. Use this self-contained sub-skill, its references, and its bundled helper scripts instead.
