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title: API naming guidelines
description: The application programming interface (API) name must follow the following guidelines.
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# API naming guidelines

The application programming interface (API) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
\<p>A specification of interactions available for building software to access an application or service.\</p>
\</div>)* name must follow the following guidelines.

* The name should not have the word "model".

* The name should not have the word "threshold".

* The name should not have the word "all".

* The name should not have the word "decoyall".

The following is the list of allowed characters in API name:

* The maximum characters in API name can be 160

* \- (hyphen), \_ (underscore), and white space are allowed in the name

* a-z, A-Z, and 0-9

* The first character must be alphanumeric