api-testing

api-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for testing REST and GraphQL APIs, including their inputs, responses, authentication, edge cases, and published schemas. Contract testing checks that services continue to agree on the API format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write API tests, validate schemas, test error cases, check authentication, and prevent API drift.
Why use it?
It catches invalid responses, broken access control, rejected inputs, and changes that could disrupt other services or clients.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write API tests, validate schemas, test error cases, check authentication, and prevent API drift.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/api-testing
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 cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill api-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 433 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00024 $0.00433
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00043

Measured 5d ago against content hash 455f089971a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-testing 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.

categories/testing-qa/api-testing/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

API Testing

Test REST and GraphQL APIs systematically.

Test Categories

Category What Example
Functional Does it work? POST /users returns 201
Validation Input handling Missing required field → 400
Auth Access control No token → 401
Edge Cases Boundary conditions Max page size, empty results
Contract Schema conformance Response matches OpenAPI spec
Performance Within SLO p95 < 500ms

REST API Testing

Structure

describe('POST /users', () => {
  it('creates a user with valid data', async () => {
    const res = await request(app)
      .post('/api/users')
      .send({ name: 'Alice', email: '[email protected]' });
    expect(res.status).toBe(201);
    expect(res.body).toHaveProperty('id');
  });
  it('rejects duplicate email', async () => {
    const res = await request(app)
      .post('/api/users')
      .send({ name: 'Alice', email: '[email protected]' });
    expect(res.status).toBe(409);
  });
});

Contract Testing (Pact)

  • Provider publishes OpenAPI spec
  • Consumer tests verify against published spec
  • CI rejects PR if contract breaks
  • Prevents API drift between services

GraphQL Testing

  • Test queries and mutations independently
  • Validate against schema
  • Test error paths (partial failures, null propagation)

API Monitoring

  • Synthetic checks every 5 minutes
  • Assert status, response time, required fields
  • Alert on SLA breaches
  • Monitor from multiple regions
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 · 63 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 455f089971a5

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api-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 433 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 2026-09-03.

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