api-design

api-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from forest6511/claude-code-recipes-v2. It costs 18 tokens per session (269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design aid that turns requirements into a proposed REST API structure. REST APIs let software exchange data through named web endpoints and HTTP methods such as GET or POST.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce an endpoint list, resource data models, and the main reasons behind the proposed API design.
Why use it?
It gives developers a consistent starting point for deciding paths, data models, pagination, permissions, and error responses.

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/forest6511/claude-code-recipes-v2/api-design
Any agent
npx skills add forest6511/claude-code-recipes-v2 --skill api-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/forest6511/claude-code-recipes-v2

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for api-design

README.md
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Per session 18 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 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 $0.00018 $0.00269
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 4d ago against content hash d592a2f7c3d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

ch08-skills-templates/recipe-45/.claude/skills/api-design/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

要件: $ARGUMENTS

設計原則

  • リソース指向: 名詞単位でパス設計 (例: users, orders リソース)
  • 動詞は HTTP メソッドで表現 (GET / POST / PUT / PATCH / DELETE)
  • ネスト深さは2階層まで (例: users/{id}/orders は OK、users/{id}/orders/{oid}/items は要再設計)
  • ページネーションは ?page=N&size=M または cursor (?cursor=xxx&limit=N)
  • エラーは RFC 7807 (Problem Details) 形式

出力形式

  1. エンドポイント一覧 (path / method / description / 認可レベル)
  2. 主要リソースのデータモデル (フィールド・型・必須/任意)
  3. 設計判断のポイント3〜5件 (なぜこの形にしたかの理由)
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. 4d ago First seen · 23 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A d592a2f7c3d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository forest6511/claude-code-recipes-v2 (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 269 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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