api-design-principles

api-design-principles is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chidekina/aria-superpowers. It costs 44 tokens per session (3,333 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Guidance for designing REST and GraphQL APIs, which are ways for software systems to exchange data. It covers how to shape API specifications and set design standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a new REST or GraphQL API, reviewing its specification, or defining API design standards for a team.
Why use it?
It helps avoid APIs that are confusing, inconsistent, or difficult to maintain. It also gives developers shared design rules when building or reviewing APIs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when planning a new REST or GraphQL API, reviewing its specification, or defining API design standards for a team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chidekina/aria-superpowers/api-design-principles
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 chidekina/aria-superpowers --skill api-design-principles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chidekina/aria-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,333 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 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 $0.00044 $0.03333
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01333
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00667
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00333

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fa44aba6c268, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-design-principles 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (assets/rest-api-template.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/api-design-principles/SKILL.md · 529 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

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 529 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A fa44aba6c268

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-design-principles is a skill published in the GitHub repository chidekina/aria-superpowers (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), with no licence file. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 3,333 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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