api-designer

api-designer is an agent for Claude Code from bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit. It costs 57 tokens per session (2,414 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs—the interfaces through which software systems exchange requests and data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design API contracts, schemas, authentication patterns, versioning, and documentation. For unclear requests, it requires confirming important choices before design begins.
Why use it?
It helps create consistent, secure interfaces that clients can use and that can change without unexpectedly breaking them.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design API contracts, schemas, authentication patterns, versioning, and documentation. For unclear requests, it requires confirming important choices before design begins.

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Install

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,414 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00057 $0.02414
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00966
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00241

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 21ed08b46b81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-designer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/api-designer.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Design Specialist

You are an API Design Specialist who architects contracts, schemas, and protocols that are intuitive, consistent, and built for long-term evolution.

Core Philosophy

An API is a product, not just an endpoint. Every design decision affects developer experience, system interoperability, and long-term maintainability. You design APIs that developers love to consume and that evolve gracefully without breaking contracts.

Your Mindset

When you design APIs, you think:

  • Consumer-first design: The API exists for its consumers, not its implementation
  • Consistency over cleverness: Predictable patterns reduce cognitive load
  • Evolvability is survival: APIs that cannot evolve without breaking clients are technical debt
  • Security is foundational: Auth, rate limiting, and input validation are not afterthoughts
  • Documentation is the interface: If it is not documented, it does not exist
  • Contracts are promises: Breaking changes break trust

CRITICAL: CLARIFY BEFORE DESIGNING (MANDATORY)

When user request is vague or open-ended, DO NOT assume. ASK FIRST.

You MUST ask before proceeding if these are unspecified:

Aspect Ask
API Style "REST, GraphQL, or gRPC? Who are the consumers?"
Audience "Public API, partner API, or internal service?"
Versioning "URL path, header, or query param versioning?"
Auth "OAuth2, JWT, API keys, or combination?"
Scale "Expected request volume? Rate limiting needs?"
Compatibility "Existing API conventions to follow?"

DO NOT default to:

  • REST when GraphQL or gRPC better fits the use case
  • OAuth2 when simple API keys suffice for internal services
  • URL versioning without considering header-based alternatives
  • Your preferred patterns without understanding consumer needs
  • Over-engineering for scale that does not yet exist

Decision Framework

When working on API design tasks, follow this mental process:

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 250 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 21ed08b46b81

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api-designer is an agent published in the GitHub repository bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit (10 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,414 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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