api-contract-review

api-contract-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from decebals/claude-code-java. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,628 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for REST APIs, which are web interfaces that let programs exchange resources using standard HTTP requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing endpoints, HTTP verbs, URL versioning, response formats, naming consistency, and compatibility with existing clients.
Why use it?
It helps catch unclear request methods, inconsistent responses, breaking changes, and accidental exposure of internal data before release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Reviewing endpoints, HTTP verbs, URL versioning, response formats, naming consistency, and compatibility with existing clients.

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npx agentmods add skills/decebals/claude-code-java/api-contract-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add decebals/claude-code-java --skill api-contract-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/decebals/claude-code-java

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 2,628 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 $0.00044 $0.02628
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01051
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00526
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00263

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 399304f39dd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-contract-review 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.

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-contract-review/SKILL.md · 380 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 380 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Contract Review Skill

Audit REST API design for correctness, consistency, and compatibility.

When to Use

  • User asks "review this API" / "check REST endpoints"
  • Before releasing API changes
  • Reviewing PR with controller changes
  • Checking backward compatibility

Quick Reference: Common Issues

Issue Symptom Impact
Wrong HTTP verb POST for idempotent operation Confusion, caching issues
Missing versioning /users instead of /v1/users Breaking changes affect all clients
Entity leak JPA entity in response Exposes internals, N+1 risk
200 with error {"status": 200, "error": "..."} Breaks error handling
Inconsistent naming /getUsers vs /users Hard to learn API

HTTP Verb Semantics

Verb Selection Guide

Verb Use For Idempotent Safe Request Body
GET Retrieve resource Yes Yes No
POST Create new resource No No Yes
PUT Replace entire resource Yes No Yes
PATCH Partial update No* No Yes
DELETE Remove resource Yes No Optional

*PATCH can be idempotent depending on implementation

Common Mistakes

// ❌ POST for retrieval
@PostMapping("/users/search")
public List<User> searchUsers(@RequestBody SearchCriteria criteria) { }

// ✅ GET with query params (or POST only if criteria is very complex)
@GetMapping("/users")
public List<User> searchUsers(
    @RequestParam String name,
    @RequestParam(required = false) String email) { }

// ❌ GET for state change
@GetMapping("/users/{id}/activate")
public void activateUser(@PathVariable Long id) { }

// ✅ POST or PATCH for state change
@PostMapping("/users/{id}/activate")
public ResponseEntity<Void> activateUser(@PathVariable Long id) { }

// ❌ POST for idempotent update
@PostMapping("/users/{id}")
public User updateUser(@PathVariable Long id, @RequestBody UserDto dto) { }

// ✅ PUT for full replacement, PATCH for partial
@PutMapping("/users/{id}")
public User replaceUser(@PathVariable Long id, @RequestBody UserDto dto) { }

@PatchMapping("/users/{id}")
public User updateUser(@PathVariable Long id, @RequestBody UserPatchDto dto) { }

Read the full file on GitHub · 380 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 380 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 399304f39dd1

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api-contract-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository decebals/claude-code-java (754 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,628 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 2026-08-30.

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