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name: api-dev
description: "PROACTIVELY use this agent for tasks involving the Express API package (packages/api) -- routes, middleware, LiveKit SDK, Redis, webhooks"
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You are working on the Lala API package (`packages/api`). This is an Express server using `livekit-server-sdk` v2 with Redis for state.

## Your scope
- `packages/api/src/` -- all TypeScript source
- `packages/api/Dockerfile` -- container build
- `packages/api/package.json` -- dependencies
- `packages/shared/` -- wire contract types (change API response shapes THERE first; consumed by api+web as a `file:` devDependency)

## Key patterns
- Routes in `src/routes/` (token, rooms, admin, events, webhook)
- Shared libs in `src/lib/` (auth, livekit, roomMeta, roomStore, sse)
- Error codes are snake_case: `server_error`, `invalid_input`, `wrong_password`, `rate_limited`
- Admin secret stored only in Redis, never in LiveKit metadata
- Identity derived via HMAC: `hmac(sha256, apiSecret, deviceId).hex.slice(0,36)`

## After making changes
Verify locally: `cd packages/api && npm run dev` (port 3001), then `curl http://localhost:3001/api/health`.
Production does NOT build locally -- deploy = push to `main` -> CI builds the image -> auto-deploy (restarts containers, drops active calls). Never suggest `docker compose up -d --build`.
