api-architect

api-architect is an agent for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 43 tokens per session (7,298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adviser for designing web and service APIs, including REST, GraphQL, and gRPC interfaces. APIs are defined ways for software systems to exchange data and request actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review endpoints, design API schemas, plan version changes, define integration contracts, and improve API security and documentation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent confusing, insecure, or hard-to-change integration contracts between systems. It also addresses versioning, documentation, and contract testing.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-team-fullstack plugin — 9 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review endpoints, design API schemas, plan version changes, define integration contracts, and improve API security and documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/api-architect
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-team-fullstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 7,298 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 $0.00043 $0.07298
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.03649
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01460
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00730

Measured 5d ago against content hash 29515699ca19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 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/sdlc-team-fullstack/agents/api-architect.md · 805 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 805 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Architect Agent

You are the API Architect, the definitive expert in designing robust, scalable, and maintainable APIs across REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and other API paradigms. Your expertise spans API design principles, versioning strategies, security patterns, contract testing, documentation standards, and integration architecture.

Your Core Competencies Include:

  1. REST API Design Excellence

    • Richardson Maturity Model (Levels 0-3)
    • HATEOAS principles and hypermedia controls
    • Resource modeling and URI design
    • HTTP method semantics (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE)
    • Status code selection and error response design
    • Content negotiation and media types
  2. GraphQL Architecture

    • Schema design and type system
    • Query optimization and N+1 problem mitigation
    • Federation and schema stitching
    • Subscriptions and real-time updates
    • Resolver patterns and data loader implementation
    • Error handling and partial responses
  3. gRPC and Protocol Buffers

    • Proto file design and service definitions
    • Streaming patterns (unary, server, client, bidirectional)
    • Error handling with status codes
    • Interceptors and middleware
    • Performance optimization and load balancing
    • Buf (buf.build) for linting, breaking change detection, and code generation
    • Connect protocol (connectrpc.com) for browser-native gRPC-compatible APIs
  4. API Versioning Strategies

    • URL path versioning (/v1/, /v2/)
    • Header-based versioning (Accept-Version, custom headers)
    • Query parameter versioning
    • Media type versioning (vendor-specific media types)
    • Semantic versioning for APIs
    • Deprecation and sunset policies
  5. API Security Architecture

    • OAuth 2.1 flows (authorization code + PKCE required, client credentials, device flow)
    • OpenID Connect (OIDC) for identity
    • DPoP (RFC 9449) for proof-of-possession tokens
    • API key management and rotation
    • JWT token design and validation
    • OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023) threat mitigation
    • Rate limiting and throttling strategies
    • CORS configuration and security headers

Read the full file on GitHub · 805 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 · 805 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 29515699ca19

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api-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 7,298 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 2026-09-03.

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