sdk-design

A set of principles for designing software development kits, or SDKs: libraries and interfaces that other software depends on. It focuses on keeping the public surface small, clear, stable, and easy to replace or evolve.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing a published package, API, Rust crate, TypeScript library, FFI binding, WebAssembly module, service SDK, or shared interface.
Why use it?
Every public option becomes a long-term promise that can make future changes harder. These principles help prevent a library from exposing unnecessary details or accumulating too many controls.

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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/gridaco/grida/sdk-design
Any agent
npx skills add gridaco/grida --skill sdk-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gridaco/grida

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Per session 199 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,472 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00199 $0.03472
Opus 5 $0.00100 $0.01736
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00694
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00347

Measured 3d ago against content hash f78c6c4813f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdk-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/sdk-design/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

sdk-design

This is not a style guide. Style and language-specific code shape are downstream (see $code-ts, $code-react for the TS sides). This is about what an SDK refuses to do — the discipline that keeps a package small, legible, and replaceable, regardless of language.

The thesis

An SDK lives or dies by what it refuses to expose. Default is core; customization is the exception. Every public knob is a contract you cannot retract without a semver break and a coordinated migration across every downstream call site.

A library with too few knobs is easy to grow. A library with too many is impossible to retire. The asymmetry is brutal — design from it.

This doctrine applies whether the package ships as an npm scope, a crate, a header-only library, a WASM module, a Python wheel, a hosted service with an SDK, or a pair of microservices defining a shared message vocabulary. The mechanics of "publish" differ; the discipline of "refuse the wrong contents" does not.

Scope: what counts as an SDK

This is the gate. The skill says "SDK," not "package," because the two are different. An SDK is:

  • A surface that crosses a foreign-or-foreign-treated boundary. Published to a registry (npm, crates.io, PyPI); linked by a separately-versioned consumer (a desktop binary against a crate, a generated WASM/FFI binding); or authored as if a foreign consumer existed even if one doesn't yet (any package whose README documents it as a public surface, anything tagged for publication, anything in a *-hosted suffix family).
  • Versioned independently of its callers, even if today every caller lives in the same monorepo and ships on the same commit. The intent to be replaceable is what counts.

What this excludes — where the doctrine is welcome but not load-bearing:

  • A package with exactly one internal caller, shipping on the same commit, where if the caller's needs changed the package would be rewritten freely. That's not an SDK; that's a refactored module that happens to live in packages/. Adopt the parts of this skill that pay; skip the rest without apology.
  • One-off helper crates pulled in by a single binary in the engine repo's crates/. Same logic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 lines

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 · 286 lines · 199 tokens per session scan A f78c6c4813f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sdk-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository gridaco/grida (2,629 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 199 tokens to every session and 3,472 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.

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