get-api-docs

get-api-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from andrewyng/context-hub. It costs 186 tokens per session (714 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for retrieving current documentation for third-party APIs, software libraries, and SDKs through the chub command-line tool. The documentation can then guide code that calls those external services or packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before coding against services or libraries such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Stripe, when accurate current documentation is needed.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on outdated or guessed APIs. It gives you the relevant reference before writing integration code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

not rated 14krepo +4 4mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 186 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it before coding against services or libraries such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Stripe, when accurate current documentation is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andrewyng/context-hub/get-api-docs
About the project

Context Hub is a repository and command-line tool that supplies coding agents with curated, versioned documentation and skills in markdown form. It is for agents that need accurate API information across tasks, and the catalogue entries provide skills for searching, fetching, and improving that context.

andrewyng/context-hub · 13,972 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add andrewyng/context-hub --skill get-api-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrewyng/context-hub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 186 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 714 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk warn 14 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00186 $0.00714
Opus 5.5 $0.00074 $0.00286
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00071

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ae9cb12d4e95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

get-api-docs 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

cli/skills/get-api-docs/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Get API Docs via chub

When you need documentation for a library or API, fetch it with the chub CLI rather than guessing from training data. This gives you the current, correct API.

Step 1 - Ensure chub exists and get the latest instructions for using it

Run

chub --help

If this results in an error showing that chub does not exist, then install it first, and run it again. If the environment has node, npm, network access, and package-manager permission, install it as follows:

npm install -g @aisuite/chub

Step 2 — Find the right documents

If there is a conflict, follow the instructions from the output of chub --help since that will be the latest guidance. However, a key command for searching for the right documentation is chub search:

chub search "<keywords>" --json

Pick the best-matching id from the results (e.g. openai/chat, anthropic/sdk, stripe/api). If nothing matches, try some broader terms.

Step 3 — Fetch the docs

Again, follow the latest instructions from chub --help instead of this if there is a conflict. But a key command for fetching the relevant docs is:

chub get <id> --lang py    # or --lang js, --lang ts

Remember to include the --lang parameter.

Step 4 — Use the docs and leave feedback

Read the fetched content and use it to write accurate code or answer the question. Do not rely on memorized API shapes — use what the docs say.

Finally, after completing the task, if you discovered something not in the doc — a gotcha, workaround, version quirk, or project-specific detail — save it so future sessions start smarter:

chub annotate <id> "Webhook verification requires raw body — do not parse before verifying"

Annotations are local, persist across sessions, and appear automatically on future chub get calls. Keep notes concise and actionable. Don't repeat what's already in the doc.

Additionally, to help all developers, give feedback on the documentation using chub feedback, following the instructions in chub --help . Do not include secrets, source code, private architecture details, or other sensitive information in feedback comments.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 1mo ago First seen · 81 lines · 186 tokens per session scan A ae9cb12d4e95

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get-api-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository andrewyng/context-hub (13,972 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 714 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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