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# Cloudflare API Shield Reference

Expert guidance for API Shield - comprehensive API security suite for discovery, protection, and monitoring.

## In This Reference

- **[patterns.md](./patterns.md)** - Common patterns, progressive rollout, OWASP mappings, workflows
- **[gotchas.md](./gotchas.md)** - Troubleshooting, false positives, performance, best practices

## Quick Start

API Shield: Enterprise-grade API security (Discovery, Schema Validation, JWT, mTLS, Sequence Enforcement). Available as Enterprise add-on with preview access.

## See Also

- [API Shield Docs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/)
- [API Reference](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/api_gateway/)
- [OWASP API Security Top 10](https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/)
