api-design

api-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deepelementlab/clawcode. It costs 31 tokens per session (3,318 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A guide to designing REST APIs, which are web interfaces that let software exchange data through standard requests. It covers naming, responses, pagination, filtering, errors, versions, and request limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing resource names and status codes, designing lists and filters, shaping error responses, planning API versions, and setting rate limits.
Why use it?
It helps keep an API predictable for the developers and applications that use it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Choosing resource names and status codes, designing lists and filters, shaping error responses, planning API versions, and setting rate limits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deepelementlab/clawcode/api-design
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 deepelementlab/clawcode --skill api-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deepelementlab/clawcode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,318 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 $0.00031 $0.03318
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01327
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00664
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00332

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7a0ca9c3cec8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-design 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.

clawcode/plugin/builtin_plugins/clawcode-skills/skills/api-design/SKILL.md · 523 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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. 1mo ago First seen · 523 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 7a0ca9c3cec8

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api-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository deepelementlab/clawcode (125 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 3,318 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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