api-designer

api-designer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from athola/skrills. It costs 15 tokens per session (247 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for designing REST APIs: web interfaces that let software exchange data through predictable URLs and standard HTTP actions. It covers resource naming, responses, errors, versioning, security, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning or reviewing API routes, request and response formats, authentication, rate limits, version changes, and OpenAPI documentation.
Why use it?
It reduces inconsistent endpoints, confusing responses, breaking changes, and unclear API documentation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when planning or reviewing API routes, request and response formats…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/athola/skrills/api-designer
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 athola/skrills --skill api-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/skrills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 247 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 $0.00015 $0.00247
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00123
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00025

Measured 7d ago against content hash 992f236c6ab8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-designer 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 7d 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.

assets/demo-skills/api-designer/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

API Designer

Expert guidance for designing clean, consistent REST APIs.

REST Principles

  • Use nouns for resources, verbs for actions
  • Follow HTTP method semantics (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
  • Return appropriate status codes
  • Support content negotiation

URL Design

  • Use plural nouns for collections (/users, /posts)
  • Nest resources logically (/users/123/posts)
  • Use query parameters for filtering and pagination
  • Keep URLs readable and predictable

Response Format

  • Use consistent JSON structure
  • Include metadata for collections (total, page, etc.)
  • Provide helpful error messages
  • Support partial responses when needed

Versioning

  • Include version in URL or header
  • Maintain backward compatibility
  • Document breaking changes clearly
  • Deprecate gracefully with notice periods

Security

  • Use HTTPS everywhere
  • Implement proper authentication
  • Validate all inputs
  • Rate limit API endpoints
  • Log security-relevant events

Documentation

  • Provide OpenAPI/Swagger specs
  • Include request/response examples
  • Document error codes and meanings
  • Keep docs updated with changes
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. 7d ago First seen · 46 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 992f236c6ab8

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api-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository athola/skrills (69 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 247 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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