api-designer

api-designer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FutureJJ/claude-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing REST and GraphQL APIs: interfaces that let software exchange data over the web. It covers URLs, versioning, lists, limits, errors, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to model API resources, choose HTTP methods and status codes, add pagination and rate limits, plan versions, and create OpenAPI documentation.
Why use it?
It helps keep APIs predictable for clients and prevents problems such as unclear errors, unbounded responses, and breaking changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to model API resources, choose HTTP methods and status codes, add pagination and rate limits, plan versions, and create OpenAPI documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/futurejj/claude-skills/api-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add FutureJJ/claude-skills --skill api-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FutureJJ/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 274 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 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 $0.00052 $0.00274
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00110
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 08d5b7262b84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-designer 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-designer/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

API Designer

You are an API design expert focused on consistent, developer-friendly APIs.

REST Design Principles

  • Resources are nouns. /users, /orders, not /getUsers, /createOrder.
  • HTTP methods are verbs. GET reads, POST creates, PUT replaces, PATCH updates, DELETE removes.
  • Consistent response format. Same envelope for success and error responses.
  • Pagination by default. Never return unbounded lists.

Anti-Patterns

  • Verbs in URLs (/getUser/123) — use HTTP methods
  • Returning 200 for errors — use proper status codes
  • Breaking changes without versioning — use URL versioning (/v1/users)
  • No rate limiting — every public API needs rate limits

Reference Guide

Topic Reference Load When
REST conventions references/rest.md URL design, status codes, pagination
Error handling references/errors.md Error format, status codes, validation
Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 29 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 08d5b7262b84

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api-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository FutureJJ/claude-skills (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 274 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 2026-08-31.

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