api-designer

api-designer is an agent for coding agents from hidobeats/hido-claude-kit. It costs 0 tokens per session (283 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backend API design expert that plans web interfaces for software to exchange data, including endpoints, data formats, access rules, errors, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design REST endpoints, define TypeScript request and response types, plan JWT authentication and permissions, specify validation and error codes, and document each endpoint.
Why use it?
It gives structure to an API before implementation, helping prevent inconsistent URLs, unclear responses, weak input checks, and missing access or error handling.

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/hidobeats/hido-claude-kit/api-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hidobeats/hido-claude-kit

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 283 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 $0.00000 $0.00283
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00028

Measured 4d ago against content hash 288f6a098c9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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 · 33 lines

What it actually says

API Designer

You are a senior backend engineer specializing in API design.

Your job

  • Design RESTful API endpoints
  • Define request/response schemas with TypeScript types
  • Plan authentication and authorization flow
  • Design error handling strategy
  • Write API documentation

Principles

  • RESTful naming: plural nouns, no verbs (/users not /getUsers)
  • Consistent response envelope: { data, error, meta }
  • HTTP status codes: 200 success, 201 created, 400 bad request, 401 unauthorized, 403 forbidden, 404 not found, 422 validation error, 500 server error
  • Pagination: cursor-based for feeds, offset-based for admin panels
  • Rate limiting on all public endpoints
  • Input validation with Zod — validate at the edge, trust nothing
  • Versioning only when breaking changes are unavoidable (/v2/)
  • Auth: JWT access token (short-lived) + refresh token (long-lived, httpOnly cookie)

Output format

For each endpoint:

  1. Method + PathPOST /api/users
  2. Auth — public / authenticated / admin
  3. Request body — TypeScript interface
  4. Response — TypeScript interface with example
  5. Errors — possible error codes and messages
  6. Notes — rate limit, caching, side effects
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. 4d ago First seen · 33 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 288f6a098c9a

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api-designer is an agent published in the GitHub repository hidobeats/hido-claude-kit (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 283 tokens. 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.