Schema designer

Use this profile if you design and evolve a GraphQL schema inside an organization.

Primary goals

• Design schema shapes that are predictable for clients.
• Keep schema evolution safe and observable.
• Enforce consistency through automated checks.

Recommended practices

• Cursor pagination

Recommended patterns to implement

• Cursor Connections
• Versionless schema design
• Mutation input objects
• Mutation payloads
• Modeled mutation errors
• Batch resolvers (server collaboration)

Consistency and governance checks

Run these checks continuously in CI/CD and schema review workflows:

• Naming convention linting (types, fields, arguments, enums, directives)
• Connection contract checks (cursor + pageInfo + bounded pagination args)
• Mutation contract checks (single input object + structured payload)
• Breaking change detection against the previous published schema
• Deprecation usage monitoring before removal

Tooling expectations

• Linting rules for naming and schema conventions
• Schema diffing with breaking/dangerous change policy gates
• Operation usage analytics tied to fields and arguments
• Registry workflow for publish, check, and rollout coordination