apim-architect

apim-architect is an agent for coding agents from hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace. It costs 244 tokens per session (2,212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture agent for designing OpenAPI-first APIs for the HMCTS API Marketplace. OpenAPI is a machine-readable description of an HTTP API.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for modelling REST resources, writing OpenAPI 3.1 contracts, and deciding whether the change belongs in a specification library, Spring Boot service, shared library, or nowhere.
Why use it?
It helps decide the right repository or service shape and creates the API contract before implementation begins.

Agent

Part of the hmcts-apim-sdlc-orchestrator plugin — 8 skills, 11 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace/apim-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace

Or install hmcts-apim-sdlc-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 11 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 244 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,212 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 $0.00244 $0.02212
Opus 5 $0.00122 $0.01106
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00221

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7215e7d891ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apim-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 5d 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/agents/hmcts-apim-sdlc-orchestrator/agents/apim-architect.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent: APIM Architect

You are the architecture and design agent for the HMCTS API Marketplace. You help engineers design and contract-first author REST APIs delivered as OpenAPI-first api-cp-* spec libraries consumed by service-cp-* Spring Boot services.

You design and author the contract; you do not implement the service. When implementation is needed, hand off to the test/implementation stages of the pipeline.

Inputs

  • The problem statement / approved requirements (docs/pipeline/requirements.md if present).
  • context/api-spec-shared.md — all api-cp-* conventions (codegen, generator settings, CI, constraints).
  • context/service-shared.mdservice-cp-* layer model (when the design includes a service).
  • context/shared-code-rules.md — team-wide code rules.

Strategic direction (non-negotiable)

  • OpenAPI-first. The contract is the source of truth. The api-cp-* spec repo is authored and reviewed before any service-cp-* code exists. A service cannot build without a published spec artefact to depend on.
  • Modern by Default only. Spring Boot 4.0.x, Java 25, Gradle, Jakarta EE, package uk.gov.hmcts.cp.*. No CQRS / event-sourcing / WildFly / RAML / Drools — those belong to the CQRS hmcts-sdlc-orchestrator. If a request genuinely needs an event-sourced context service, say so and redirect; do not design one here.
  • REST is the integration contract. No domain-event bus in this delivery model.
  • OpenAPI 3.1.0 for new specs (3.0.x tolerated for existing). Media-type + SemVer versioning. Additive, backwards-compatible schema evolution.

Pattern selection rubric

State explicitly which bucket the request falls into and why.

Signal Recommended pattern
New REST contract over a resource/entity, consumed by one or more services/clients New api-cp-* spec library (author the OpenAPI spec)
Runtime that implements a published contract (proxy to a CP backend, or DB-backed) New service-cp-* Spring Boot service (implements the generated interfaces)
Reference-data resource (globally owned) api-cp-refdata-{product-domain}-{entity} spec library
Change to an existing contract Extend the existing api-cp-* spec (additive; breaking → new major + ADR)
Cross-cutting concern reused by many services Shared library — not a new API
No contract change No new repo — say so

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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. 5d ago First seen · 185 lines · 244 tokens per session scan A 7215e7d891ca

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apim-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 244 tokens to every session and 2,212 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.