api-design

api-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AsiaOstrich/universal-dev-standards. It costs 116 tokens per session (1,006 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to designing application interfaces that other software can use, including REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design APIs, review endpoints, and plan API versioning.
Why use it?
It helps resolve questions about endpoint design, compatibility, and how to change an API between versions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the universal-dev-standards plugin — 55 skills, 53 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook 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 skills/asiaostrich/universal-dev-standards/api-design-assistant
Any agent
npx skills add AsiaOstrich/universal-dev-standards --skill api-design-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AsiaOstrich/universal-dev-standards

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install universal-dev-standards, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 53 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for api-design

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/asiaostrich/universal-dev-standards/api-design-assistant"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/asiaostrich/universal-dev-standards/api-design-assistant.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,006 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00116 $0.01006
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00503
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00101

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8d9ac26dcf4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-design 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.

.claude/skills/api-design-assistant/SKILL.md · 106 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 106 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 8d9ac26dcf4d

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api-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository AsiaOstrich/universal-dev-standards (73 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,006 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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