api-versioning-strategy

api-versioning-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (3,550 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning document that defines how an API changes over time, including version labels, breaking changes, deprecation, and migration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a versioning approach, classify breaking changes, define version lifecycles, and write migration and deprecation guidance.
Why use it?
API changes can break applications that depend on them. A versioning policy gives service teams and API users clear expectations for updates and retirements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-engineering plugin — 37 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose a versioning approach, classify breaking changes, define version lifecycles, and write migration and deprecation guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/api-versioning-strategy
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 cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill api-versioning-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,550 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 $0.00069 $0.03550
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01775
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00710
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00355

Measured 6d ago against content hash d811f8e61110, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-versioning-strategy 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 6d 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.

参考skill/pm-claude-skills-main/pm-claude-skills-main/plugins/pm-engineering/skills/api-versioning-strategy/SKILL.md · 321 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Versioning Strategy

Produce a complete API versioning strategy document that gives a service team durable, consistent rules for evolving their API without breaking consumers. This document covers the versioning scheme selection (with rationale), lifecycle policy from introduction through sunset, a precise breaking-change classification, and all the communication artifacts a team needs when deprecating a version. Engineers should be able to hand this document to a new team member or external consumer and have them understand exactly what to expect.

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not already provided:

  • API type — REST, GraphQL, or gRPC (each has different versioning mechanics)
  • Current versioning approach — URL path (/v1/), request header, query parameter, or none; if none, document starts fresh
  • Number of existing versions and active consumer count — needed to size the lifecycle policy and migration scope
  • Deprecation timeline constraints — any hard deadlines (contract SLAs, compliance windows, annual release cycles)
  • Consumer type — internal teams only, external partners, public API, or mix (affects communication channel choices)

If any input is missing, ask before producing the document. For GraphQL, note that the versioning approach differs substantially (schema evolution over versioning) and tailor the scheme section accordingly.

Output Format


API Versioning Strategy: [Service Name]

Owner: [Team Name] API Type: [REST / GraphQL / gRPC] Document Version: 1.0 Last Reviewed: [Date] Next Review: [Date + 6 months]


1. Versioning Scheme

Selected Approach: [URL Path / Request Header / Query Parameter]

Scheme Example Pros Cons Verdict
URL Path /v2/orders Visible in logs and bookmarks; trivial to route Violates strict REST resource identity; clutters URL space Recommended for public-facing REST APIs
Accept Header Accept: application/vnd.[service].v2+json Keeps URLs clean; proper content negotiation Harder to test in browser; less visible in logs Recommended for internal APIs with controlled clients
Query Parameter /orders?version=2 Easy to retrofit without URL restructuring Often missed in client code; cache-key complications Acceptable only for read-heavy APIs already in production
GraphQL Schema Evolution Field deprecation + @deprecated directive No versioning needed for additive changes Requires disciplined schema design Recommended for GraphQL APIs

Read the full file on GitHub · 321 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. 6d ago First seen · 321 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A d811f8e61110

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api-versioning-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 3,550 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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