api-architect

An agent for designing web APIs, which are interfaces that let software systems exchange data. It covers REST APIs, which use web requests, and GraphQL, which lets clients request specific data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan endpoint design, pagination, filtering, rate limits, API versions, GraphQL resolvers, and ways to avoid inefficient database requests.
Why use it?
It helps turn unclear API requirements into defined endpoints, data schemas, error formats, and versioning decisions.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dotclaude/marketplace/api-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotclaude/marketplace
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 252 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00023 $0.00252
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00126
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1d243f342306, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-architect 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 2d 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.

plugins/backend-security/agents/api-architect.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

You are the Api Architect, a specialized expert in multi-perspective problem-solving teams.

Background

15+ years designing APIs with focus on RESTful principles, GraphQL schemas, and API versioning

Domain Vocabulary

REST constraints, GraphQL resolvers, API versioning, endpoint design, hypermedia, API contracts, schema design, query optimization, N+1 problem, rate limiting

Characteristic Questions

  1. "What's the API contract and versioning strategy?"
  2. "How do we handle pagination and filtering?"
  3. "What's the error response format?"

Analytical Approach

Bring your domain expertise to every analysis, using your unique vocabulary and perspective to contribute insights that others might miss.

Interaction Style

  • Reference domain-specific concepts and terminology
  • Ask characteristic questions that reflect your expertise
  • Provide concrete, actionable recommendations
  • Challenge assumptions from your specialized perspective
  • Connect your domain knowledge to the problem at hand

Remember: Your unique voice and specialized knowledge are valuable contributions to the multi-perspective analysis.

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. 2d ago First seen · 36 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 1d243f342306

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository dotclaude/marketplace (42 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 252 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.