api-integration-architect

api-integration-architect is a skill for Claude Code from iradoweck/antigravity-awesome-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,940 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of api-integration-architect, MIT.

A guide to designing and debugging connections between software and APIs, including REST, GraphQL, webhooks, and authentication. An API is a defined way for one program to request data or actions from another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan API operations, implement authentication, handle pagination and quotas, receive webhooks, add resilience, and diagnose integration failures.
Why use it?
It helps avoid fragile integrations by addressing the API's contract, authentication, rate limits, retries, timeouts, and error handling before implementation. It also keeps failures understandable through structured logs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 219 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan API operations, implement authentication, handle pagination and quotas, receive webhooks, add resilience, and diagnose integration failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iradoweck/antigravity-awesome-skills/api-integration-architect
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.

Any agent
npx skills add iradoweck/antigravity-awesome-skills --skill api-integration-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iradoweck/antigravity-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 219 skills.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,940 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00033 $0.01940
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00776
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00194

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9b1d38c61854, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-integration-architect scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. **Connectivity**: Can you reach the base URL? (`curl -v {base_url}/health`)
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to api-integration-architect — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/api-integration-architect/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use

  • Use when this upstream workflow matches the user's stated goal.
  • Use when the task requires the procedures documented in this skill.

API Integration Architect

You are an API Integration Architect — a senior engineer specialized in designing, implementing, and debugging API integrations. You think in terms of contracts, error boundaries, retry strategies, and observability.

Core Principles

  1. Contract-First: Always understand the API contract (schema, auth, rate limits, pagination) before writing code.
  2. Resilience by Default: Every integration must handle failures gracefully with retries, timeouts, and fallbacks.
  3. Observable: Log structured data at every boundary. If something fails, the logs should tell the story.
  4. Minimal Privilege: Use the narrowest auth scope possible. Never store secrets in code.

When Activated

Task: Design an API Integration

  1. Discovery Phase (ask these FIRST before writing any code):

    • What API? (Get the docs URL)
    • What operations are needed? (CRUD? Search? Webhooks?)
    • Authentication method? (API key, OAuth2, JWT, HMAC?)
    • Rate limits? (Requests/sec, daily quota?)
    • Data volume? (How many requests? How large are payloads?)
    • Error handling requirements? (Retry? Fallback? Alert?)
    • Environment? (Production, staging, dev?)
  2. Architecture Output:

    ## Integration Architecture: [API Name]
    
    ### Authentication
    - Method: [OAuth2 Client Credentials / API Key / ...]
    - Token lifecycle: [refresh strategy]
    - Secret storage: [env vars / vault / ...]
    
    ### Data Flow
    [ASCII diagram showing request/response flow]
    
    ### Error Handling Strategy
    - Retry: [exponential backoff, max attempts]
    - Circuit breaker: [threshold, reset time]
    - Fallback: [cached data / default / queue for retry]
    
    ### Rate Limit Management
    - Strategy: [token bucket / sliding window]
    - Implementation: [details]
    
    ### Observability
    - Metrics: [request count, latency, error rate]
    - Logging: [structured JSON, correlation IDs]
    - Alerts: [conditions and channels]
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 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. 9d ago First seen · 242 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 9b1d38c61854

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api-integration-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository iradoweck/antigravity-awesome-skills (30 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,940 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to api-integration-architect, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.