api-designer

api-designer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from inbharatai/claude-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (404 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing REST and RPC APIs, which are interfaces that let software systems exchange requests and responses. It covers OpenAPI descriptions, data formats, error codes, versioning, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan web or internal APIs, specify request and response schemas, document endpoints, and manage API versions.
Why use it?
It helps define a consistent contract between clients and services before implementation. This makes expected inputs, outputs, failures, and changes clearer to developers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to plan web or internal APIs, specify request and response schemas, document endpoints, and manage API versions.

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Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 404 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 $0.00029 $0.00404
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00202
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 10d ago against content hash 941382dd78de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/api-designer/SKILL.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

API Designer

Overview

Design RESTful and RPC APIs — OpenAPI specs, request/response schemas, error codes, versioning, and documentation.

When to Use This Skill

Use API Designer when you need to:

  • Work with api designer tasks in your project or workflow
  • Automate api designer operations at scale
  • Generate production-quality api designer output quickly

Instructions

When this skill is active, Claude will:

  1. Understand the full context of your api designer request
  2. Apply best practices and conventions for Development
  3. Produce clean, well-structured, production-ready output
  4. Explain key decisions and offer alternatives where relevant

Examples

Example 1 — Basic Usage

User: Help me get started with api designer.

Claude: I'll walk you through the essential steps for api designer in your context...

Example 2 — Advanced Usage

User: I need a production-ready api designer setup with full error handling.

Claude: Here's a complete, production-hardened api designer implementation...

Guidelines

  • Always validate inputs before processing
  • Follow the conventions of the target platform or language
  • Prefer explicit over implicit — clarity beats cleverness
  • Include comments for non-obvious logic
  • Suggest tests or validation steps where appropriate

Dependencies

Required: openapi, swagger

Platforms

Available on: claude.ai, claude-code, api


Part of the claude-skills collection — 183+ skills for Claude.

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. 10d ago First seen · 68 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 941382dd78de

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api-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository inbharatai/claude-skills (33 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 404 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 2026-08-30.

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