api-documentation

A guide for writing reference material for web APIs and software libraries that other programs or developers use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document REST APIs, GraphQL schemas, SDK methods, OpenAPI or Swagger files, interactive documentation, and example requests.
Why use it?
It makes endpoints, data formats, and usage examples clear, reducing confusion between the code that provides an API and the code that calls it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/0xranx/agentbrief/api-documentation
Any agent
npx skills add 0xranx/agentbrief --skill api-documentation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xranx/agentbrief

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,139 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00041 $0.02139
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01069
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00214

Measured 2d ago against content hash 76daf89e1785, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-documentation scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -X POST https://api.example.com/v1/auth/login \
briefs/tech-writer/skills/api-documentation/SKILL.md · 391 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 391 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Documentation

When to use this skill

  • API Development: When adding new endpoints
  • External Release: Public API launch
  • Team Collaboration: Frontend-backend interface definition

Instructions

Step 1: OpenAPI (Swagger) Spec

openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: User Management API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: API for managing users
  contact:
    email: [email protected]

servers:
  - url: https://api.example.com/v1
    description: Production
  - url: https://staging-api.example.com/v1
    description: Staging

paths:
  /users:
    get:
      summary: List all users
      description: Retrieve a paginated list of users
      tags:
        - Users
      parameters:
        - name: page
          in: query
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 1
        - name: limit
          in: query
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 20
            maximum: 100
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
                  pagination:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'

    post:
      summary: Create a new user
      tags:
        - Users
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateUserRequest'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: User created
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'

components:
  schemas:
    User:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        email:
          type: string
          format: email
        name:
          type: string
        createdAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      required:
        - id
        - email
        - name

    CreateUserRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        email:
          type: string
          format: email
        name:
          type: string
          minLength: 2
          maxLength: 50
        password:
          type: string
          minLength: 8
      required:
        - email
        - name
        - password

    Pagination:
      type: object
      properties:
        page:
          type: integer
        limit:
          type: integer
        total:
          type: integer

  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Unauthorized
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            properties:
              error:
                type: string
                example: "Authentication required"

    BadRequest:
      description: Bad Request
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            properties:
              error:
                type: string
                example: "Invalid input"

  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT

security:
  - bearerAuth: []

Read the full file on GitHub · 391 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. 2d ago First seen · 391 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 76daf89e1785

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-documentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xranx/agentbrief (45 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,139 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.