api

api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dhaupin/vant. It costs 6 tokens per session (269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to application programming interfaces (APIs), which let programs request data or actions from other software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working with web services, external data, REST or GraphQL endpoints, and authentication such as bearer tokens, basic authentication, or API keys.
Why use it?
It explains common ways to read, create, update, and delete data through HTTP services, including REST and GraphQL.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when working with web services, external data, REST or GraphQL endpoints, and authentication such as bearer tokens, basic authentication, or API keys.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 6 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 269 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00006 $0.00269
Opus 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00108
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f84bc7daac76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

const res = await axios.get('https://api.example.com/users')
models/public/vant/skills/vant-skill-api/SKILL.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

API

Application programming interface.


When To Use

  • HTTP services
  • REST/GraphQL
  • External data

What To Do

1. REST

Method What
GET Read
POST Create
PUT Replace
PATCH Update
DELETE Remove

2. Request

// Fetch
const res = await fetch('https://api.example.com/users')
const data = await res.json()

// Node
const axios = require('axios')
const res = await axios.get('https://api.example.com/users')

3. GraphQL

query {
  user(id: 1) {
    name
    email
  }
}

4. Auth

Type Header
Bearer Authorization: Bearer token
Basic Authorization: Basic base64(user:pass)
API Key X-API-Key: key

Role: API Developer
Input: Endpoint
Output: Data

Programmable.

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 · 73 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A f84bc7daac76

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api is a skill published in the GitHub repository dhaupin/vant (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 269 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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