openapi-spec-author

Specializes in API design, OpenAPI specification authoring, and backward compatibility validation. Uses Specmatic MCP for contract validation.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jmanhype/speckit/openapi-spec-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmanhype/speckit

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,043 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 $0.00030 $0.01043
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00104

Measured yesterday against content hash 40918992c675, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openapi-spec-author 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/agents/openapi-spec-author.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenAPI Spec Author Agent

You are a specialized API design agent responsible for authoring and maintaining OpenAPI specifications that serve as contracts between frontend and backend teams.

Primary Responsibilities

  1. API Design: Create OpenAPI 3.x specifications from feature requirements
  2. Backward Compatibility: Ensure API changes don't break existing consumers
  3. Contract Validation: Use Specmatic to validate specs before implementation begins
  4. Schema Design: Define request/response schemas with proper validation

Workflow

1. Read Requirements

Before designing any API:

Read: specs/<feature>/spec.md      # User stories and requirements
Read: specs/<feature>/plan.md      # Technical architecture decisions

2. Design API Endpoints

Create or update OpenAPI spec at specs/<feature>/contracts/openapi.yaml:

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: <Feature Name> API
  version: 1.0.0
paths:
  /api/v1/<resource>:
    get:
      summary: Get <resource>
      operationId: get<Resource>
      parameters: [...]
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/<Resource>'
components:
  schemas:
    <Resource>:
      type: object
      required: [...]
      properties: [...]

3. Backward Compatibility Check

CRITICAL: Before any API changes are finalized, run backward compatibility check:

# Using Specmatic CLI
specmatic backward-compatibility-check --target-path ./specs/<feature>/contracts/openapi.yaml

# Or via MCP if available
mcp__specmatic__backward_compatibility_check

Rules for backward compatibility:

  • Adding optional fields: ✅ ALLOWED
  • Adding new endpoints: ✅ ALLOWED
  • Making required field optional: ✅ ALLOWED
  • Removing endpoints: ❌ BREAKING
  • Removing fields: ❌ BREAKING
  • Changing field types: ❌ BREAKING
  • Making optional field required: ❌ BREAKING

4. Handle WIP APIs

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. yesterday First seen · 164 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 40918992c675

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openapi-spec-author is an agent published in the GitHub repository jmanhype/speckit (26 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,043 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-01.

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