httpie

httpie is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jjmartres/ai-coding-agents. It costs 148 tokens per session (1,901 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide to HTTPie, a command-line tool for sending requests to websites and web APIs. An API is a defined way for programs to exchange data or trigger actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests, JSON or form data, headers, query parameters, and file uploads.
Why use it?
It gives developers a consistent way to test requests, inspect responses, send data, and debug web services from a terminal.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jjmartres/ai-coding-agents/httpie
Any agent
npx skills add jjmartres/ai-coding-agents --skill httpie
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jjmartres/ai-coding-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,901 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 3 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00148 $0.01901
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.00950
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00190

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0b994905dd0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

httpie scanned grade C with 3 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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

| POST JSON | `http POST url key=val` | `curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"key":"val"}' url` |

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt install httpie

Makes network callslowCapability

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

## HTTPie vs curl Equivalents
shared/.ai-agents/skills/httpie/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HTTPie CLI Skill

HTTPie is a modern, human-friendly HTTP client for the command line. The main command is http (or https for HTTPS-only).

Installation

# pip (recommended)
pip install httpie

# brew (macOS)
brew install httpie

# apt (Debian/Ubuntu)
sudo apt install httpie

Verify: http --version


Request Syntax

http [METHOD] URL [REQUEST_ITEMS...]
  • METHOD is optional: defaults to GET when no data, POST when data is present
  • URL: scheme defaults to http://; use :3000 as shorthand for localhost:3000

Request Items � Key Separators

Separator Type Example
= JSON string field (or form field with -f) name=Jean
:= Raw JSON value (non-string) active:=true, count:=42, tags:='["a","b"]'
== URL query parameter search==httpie
: HTTP header Authorization:Bearer TOKEN
@ File upload (form/multipart) file@./report.pdf
=@ File content as string field body=@./message.txt
:=@ File content as raw JSON config:=@./config.json

Common Examples

GET requests

# Simple GET
http GET https://api.example.com/users

# With query params
http GET https://api.example.com/users search==alice limit==10

# Shorthand (method inferred)
http https://api.example.com/users

# Localhost shorthand
http :8080/health

POST with JSON (default)

# String and non-string fields
http POST https://api.example.com/users \
  name="Jean-Jacques" \
  email="[email protected]" \
  active:=true \
  roles:='["admin","user"]'

# Inline raw JSON body (pipe it in)
echo '{"name":"test"}' | http POST https://api.example.com/users

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 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 · 279 lines · 148 tokens per session scan C 0b994905dd0e

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httpie is a skill published in the GitHub repository jjmartres/ai-coding-agents (43 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 1,901 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 3 findings (sends data to an external url, asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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