api-versioning

api-versioning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cass-2003/local-workflow-skill. It costs 156 tokens per session (2,506 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to changing an API’s interface over time while keeping older clients working. It covers where to put version information and how to tell breaking changes from compatible ones.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing a public or internal API, reviewing interface changes, planning deprecations, or coordinating API clients and SDKs.
Why use it?
It helps avoid breaking existing apps and gives teams a planned way to retire old versions. It also makes the long-term cost of supporting several versions visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing a public or internal API, reviewing interface changes, planning deprecations, or coordinating API clients and SDKs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/api-versioning
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 cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill api-versioning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,506 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00156 $0.02506
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01253
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00501
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00251

Measured 7d ago against content hash a31aebd4b70b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-versioning 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

**优点**:直观 / 缓存友好 / curl 易测 / 多版本并存简单
skills/engineering-core/ours/api-versioning/SKILL.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Versioning Skill — API 版本控制

何时使用

  • 设计公开 API(SDK / 第三方集成)
  • 想做 breaking change 但有存量客户
  • 内部服务 (microservices) 间接口演进
  • 评审 PR 是否 breaking change
  • 制定 deprecation 流程

一、版本载体四种

1. URL Path(最常见)

GET /v1/users/123
GET /v2/users/123

优点:直观 / 缓存友好 / curl 易测 / 多版本并存简单 缺点:版本号"侵入" URL(看似资源是不同的)

2. Header

GET /users/123
Accept: application/vnd.example.v2+json
# 或自定义
X-API-Version: 2

优点:URL 干净 / 资源同一 缺点:浏览器不能直接打开 / 缓存键需 Vary 头

3. Media Type

GET /users/123
Accept: application/vnd.example.user.v2+json

GitHub API v3 用法。学院派,实践少见(开发心智成本高)。

4. Query Param

GET /users/123?version=2

不推荐 —— 不像版本,像参数。

5. Date-based(Stripe / GitHub GraphQL)

Stripe-Version: 2026-04-15

每次 breaking change 发版日期 stamp,旧客户端永远拿到当时的语义。最强但最贵:服务端要长期维护多个 schema 版本。

二、Breaking vs Additive Change

Additive(向后兼容,不需要新版本)

  • ✅ 加新 endpoint
  • ✅ 加新 optional 字段(请求 / 响应)
  • ✅ 加新 enum 值(前提:客户端容忍未知值
  • ✅ 放宽校验(要求 ≥ 18 → ≥ 0)
  • ✅ 加新 HTTP method 在已有 path

Breaking(必须升版本)

  • ❌ 删字段 / 改字段名
  • ❌ 改字段类型
  • ❌ 加 required 字段
  • ❌ 改默认值(行为改变)
  • ❌ 删 enum 值
  • ❌ 改 HTTP 状态码语义
  • ❌ 收紧校验(≥ 0 → ≥ 1)
  • ❌ 改错误格式
  • ❌ 改分页 / 默认排序

陷阱:加 enum 值表面 additive,但若旧 SDK 用 switch 没 default,会崩。枚举默认 breaking,除非协议要求"未知值视为 X"。

三、SemVer 在 API 上的应用

v1.2.3
↑ ↑ ↑
│ │ └─ patch: bug fix(永不 breaking)
│ └─── minor: 加功能(永不 breaking)
└───── major: breaking change

API URL 一般只暴露 major/v1/)。minor / patch 透明升级。

四、Deprecation 流程(业界标杆)

1. 公告期(≥ 3 月)

  • 发布 changelog
  • 邮件 / dashboard 通知用户
  • API 响应加 header:
Sunset: Wed, 31 Dec 2026 23:59:59 GMT
Deprecation: true
Link: <https://api.example.com/v3/users>; rel="successor-version"
Warning: 299 - "v1 deprecated, use v3 by 2026-12-31"

2. 监控期

观察使用量下降曲线 / 联系大客户

3. 关闭期

  • 返 410 Gone(不是 404)
  • body 给迁移指引
HTTP/1.1 410 Gone
Content-Type: application/problem+json

{
  "type": "/errors/api-version-sunset",
  "title": "API v1 has been sunset",
  "detail": "Migrate to v3. See https://api.example.com/migration/v1-to-v3",
  "successor": "/v3/users"
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 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. 7d ago First seen · 294 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A a31aebd4b70b

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api-versioning is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 2,506 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.

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