networking-retrofit-ktor

networking-retrofit-ktor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GDvega/super-android-kotlin-firebase-skill. It costs 38 tokens per session (579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Android networking guide for Retrofit, Ktor Client and OkHttp, the libraries commonly used to call web APIs. It covers transport details, data mapping, errors, retries and timeouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding API clients, defining data-transfer objects, mapping responses to domain models, configuring authentication and testing network behavior.
Why use it?
It keeps UI code separate from network calls and helps handle failures, cancellation and sensitive headers safely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit It is for adding API clients, defining data-transfer objects, mapping responses to domain models, configuring authentication and testing network behavior.

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npx agentmods add skills/gdvega/super-android-kotlin-firebase-skill/networking-retrofit-ktor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add GDvega/super-android-kotlin-firebase-skill --skill networking-retrofit-ktor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GDvega/super-android-kotlin-firebase-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 579 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 $0.00038 $0.00579
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00290
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00058

Measured 11d ago against content hash 10ca086e73c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

networking-retrofit-ktor 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 11d 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/networking-retrofit-ktor/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Integrate remote APIs without coupling UI to transport details.

When to use

  • Adding Retrofit or Ktor client.
  • Handling HTTP errors and retries.
  • Mapping DTOs to domain models.
  • Adding auth headers or interceptors.

Inputs to inspect

  • API contract and base URL handling.
  • Existing network stack.
  • Serialization library.
  • Error and retry requirements.
  • Security requirements for headers/logging.

Required workflow

  1. Reuse the existing network client if present.
  2. Define DTOs and service/client methods.
  3. Map DTOs to domain at the data boundary.
  4. Model errors and retry policy.
  5. Add tests with fakes or mock server when available.

Rules

  • Do not call network directly from UI.
  • Do not log tokens or secrets.
  • Avoid infinite retries.
  • Keep DTOs out of domain unless intentionally shared.
  • Respect coroutine cancellation.

Local skills to invoke

  • android-architecture
  • kotlin-core
  • security-privacy
  • ui-state-design
  • testing

External companion skills to use when installed

Do not assume these companion skills are installed. Prefer the local skills above first, then consult Companion Skills for install and verification commands.

  • android/skills — use for official Android workflow alignment when a first-party companion skill exists for the task.

Files commonly touched

  • network module
  • DTOs
  • API service/client
  • repository implementation
  • interceptors
  • tests

Commands to validate

./gradlew test
./gradlew assembleDebug
./gradlew lint

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Returning raw Response to UI.
  • Logging Authorization headers.
  • No timeout policy.
  • Swallowing HTTP error details needed by UX.

Checklist

  • Client reused/configured.
  • Errors modeled.
  • DTO mapping tested.
  • Timeouts/retries explicit.
  • No secrets logged.

Example prompts

  • Use $super-android-kotlin-firebase to connect this screen to a REST API.
  • Use $super-android-kotlin-firebase to migrate a repository from Retrofit to Ktor.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 103 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 10ca086e73c7

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networking-retrofit-ktor is a skill published in the GitHub repository GDvega/super-android-kotlin-firebase-skill (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 579 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 2026-08-31.

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