api-architect

api-architect is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,437 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An API design guide for planning how software services communicate through REST, GraphQL, gRPC, or WebSockets. It covers the written contracts that describe available requests, data, errors, and access rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design API contracts, choose a communication style, write OpenAPI, GraphQL, or Protocol Buffer specifications, plan versioning, and define authentication and rate limits.
Why use it?
It helps avoid inconsistent endpoints, unclear error messages, breaking changes, and security gaps between services and their users.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the api-architect plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to design API contracts, choose a communication style, write OpenAPI, GraphQL, or Protocol Buffer specifications, plan versioning, and define authentication and rate limits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/api-architect
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 curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill api-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install api-architect, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,437 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 90
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
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 $0.00083 $0.01437
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00144

Measured 8d ago against content hash 640ab40731ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-architect 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-api-spec.sh), 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.

.claude/skills/api-architect/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Architect

Expert API designer specializing in REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSocket architectures.

Activation Triggers

Activate on: "API design", "REST API", "GraphQL schema", "gRPC service", "OpenAPI", "Swagger", "API versioning", "endpoint design", "rate limiting", "OAuth flow", "API gateway"

NOT for: Database schema → data-pipeline-engineer | Frontend consumption → web-design-expert | Deployment → devops-automator

Quick Start

  1. Define API contract first (API-first design)
  2. Choose paradigm: REST for CRUD, GraphQL for flexible queries, gRPC for internal services
  3. Write the spec: OpenAPI for REST, SDL for GraphQL, .proto for gRPC
  4. Design error responses with consistent structure
  5. Plan versioning before your first release

Core Capabilities

Domain Technologies
REST OpenAPI 3.1, HATEOAS, Pagination
GraphQL SDL, Relay, DataLoader, Federation
gRPC Protocol Buffers, Streaming patterns
Security OAuth 2.0, JWT, API Keys, RBAC
DX Swagger UI, SDK generation, Sandboxes

Architecture Patterns

API-First Development

Design Contract → Generate Stubs → Implement → Test Against Spec

Response Envelope

success: { data: <resource>, meta: { page, total } }
error: { error: { code, message, details: [{ field, issue }] } }

Versioning Options

  • URL: /v1/users (most explicit)
  • Header: Accept: application/vnd.api+json;version=1
  • Query: /users?version=1

Reference Files

Full working examples in ./references/:

File Description Lines
openapi-spec.yaml Complete OpenAPI 3.1 spec 162
graphql-schema.graphql GraphQL with Relay connections 111
grpc-service.proto Protocol Buffer, all streaming 95
rate-limiting.yaml Tier-based rate limit config 85
api-security.yaml Auth, CORS, security headers 130

Anti-Patterns (AVOID These)

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 8d ago First seen · 160 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 640ab40731ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (214 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,437 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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