drupal-form-api

A guide to Drupal’s Form API, the system used to build and process forms. It covers form fields, validation, submission handlers, configuration forms, dependency injection, routes, and generating forms with Drush.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create user-facing forms, administration settings forms, validation and submit logic, and routes that display forms.
Why use it?
It helps you build forms that follow Drupal’s handling of input, validation, configuration, and submitted values.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/edutrul/drupal-ai/drupal-form-api
Any agent
npx skills add edutrul/drupal-ai --skill drupal-form-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/edutrul/drupal-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 689 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00038 $0.00689
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00345
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00069

Measured 3d ago against content hash 037eb9e2be11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drupal-form-api 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/drupal-form-api/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drupal Form API

Simple Form (FormBase)

// src/Form/MyForm.php
namespace Drupal\my_module\Form;

use Drupal\Core\Form\FormBase;
use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;

final class MyForm extends FormBase {

  public function __construct(
    private readonly EntityTypeManagerInterface $entityTypeManager,
  ) {}

  public static function create(ContainerInterface $container): static {
    return new static(
      $container->get('entity_type.manager'),
    );
  }

  public function getFormId(): string {
    return 'my_module_my_form';
  }

  public function buildForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state): array {
    $form['name'] = [
      '#type' => 'textfield',
      '#title' => $this->t('Name'),
      '#required' => TRUE,
    ];
    $form['submit'] = [
      '#type' => 'submit',
      '#value' => $this->t('Submit'),
    ];
    return $form;
  }

  public function submitForm(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state): void {
    $name = $form_state->getValue('name');
    $this->messenger()->addStatus($this->t('Hello @name!', ['@name' => $name]));
  }

}

Config Form (ConfigFormBase)

final class MySettingsForm extends ConfigFormBase {

  protected function getEditableConfigNames(): array {
    return ['my_module.settings'];
  }

  public function getFormId(): string {
    return 'my_module_settings';
  }

  public function buildForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state): array {
    $config = $this->config('my_module.settings');
    $form['enabled'] = [
      '#type' => 'checkbox',
      '#title' => $this->t('Enable feature'),
      '#default_value' => $config->get('enabled'),
    ];
    return parent::buildForm($form, $form_state);
  }

  public function submitForm(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state): void {
    $this->config('my_module.settings')
      ->set('enabled', $form_state->getValue('enabled'))
      ->save();
    parent::submitForm($form, $form_state);
  }

}

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 3d ago First seen · 107 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 037eb9e2be11

Subscribe to this mod's changes

drupal-form-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository edutrul/drupal-ai (71 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 689 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.