api-versioning-backward-compatibility

api-versioning-backward-compatibility is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/windags-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,322 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to changing APIs while keeping existing users working. API versioning means maintaining different interface versions, while deprecation means planning the retirement of an older one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for v1-to-v2 migrations, backward-compatibility decisions, deprecation workflows, and versioning through URLs, headers, or content types.
Why use it?
It helps reduce breakage when an API changes. It covers migration planning and ways to signal that an older version will be retired.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for v1-to-v2 migrations, backward-compatibility decisions, deprecation workflows, and versioning through URLs, headers, or content types.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/windags-skills/api-versioning-backward-compatibility
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/windags-skills --skill api-versioning-backward-compatibility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/windags-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,322 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 $0.00080 $0.01322
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00661
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00132

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5f8b2813d7cf, 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-backward-compatibility 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 9d 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.

skills/api-versioning-backward-compatibility/SKILL.md · 135 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.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 135 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 5f8b2813d7cf

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api-versioning-backward-compatibility is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/windags-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,322 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 2026-08-31.

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