api-change-documentation

api-change-documentation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins. It costs 36 tokens per session (628 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing API change handoff prompts between frontend and backend teams. An API is the agreed interface through which software systems exchange data and actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify API changes, prepare frontend TypeScript schemas, and write backend handoff instructions.
Why use it?
It helps teams identify breaking changes and communicate the migration or documentation work needed when an API changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the handoff plugin — 2 skills, 3 commands shipped together

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/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/api-change-documentation
Any agent
npx skills add juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins --skill api-change-documentation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install handoff, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 3 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for api-change-documentation

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 628 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

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 $0.00036 $0.00628
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00314
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured yesterday against content hash 9e9c3cce8591, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-change-documentation 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 yesterday.

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.

handoff/skills/api-change-documentation/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Cross-Team Handoff Guidelines

This skill provides the specific output formats and classification rules for generating handoff prompts between frontend and backend teams.

Breaking Change Classification

Use this classification when generating handoff prompts:

Change Type Breaking? Action Required
Remove response field YES Migration guide required
Change field type YES Migration guide required
Rename field YES Migration guide required
Change endpoint path/method YES Migration guide required
Add required request param YES Migration guide required
Add optional response field NO Document only
Add optional query param NO Document only
Add new endpoint NO Document only
Deprecate (not remove) field NO Document with timeline

Schema Output Formats

For Frontend Handoffs (TypeScript)

interface Example {
  id: string;
  name: string | null;           // null = field present, value absent
  role: 'admin' | 'user';        // union for enums
  metadata?: Record<string, unknown>;  // ? = field may be omitted
}

For Backend Handoffs (Language-Agnostic)

{
  "id": "string (UUID v4)",
  "count": "integer (min: 0, max: 1000)",
  "status": "enum: pending | active | completed",
  "config": {
    "enabled": "boolean (default: true)"
  }
}

Handoff Checklists

Backend → Frontend

  • All changed endpoints listed with HTTP method
  • TypeScript interfaces for all affected types
  • Breaking changes marked with migration steps
  • New error scenarios with status codes
  • Before/after payload examples

Frontend → Backend

  • UI/UX context explaining the need
  • Request/response schemas (language-agnostic)
  • Validation requirements
  • Error scenarios to handle
  • Performance expectations (call frequency, data volume)

Edge Cases to Always Document

  1. Null vs omission: field: null vs field not present
  2. Empty arrays: [] vs null vs omitted
  3. Pagination: zero/one-based, default size, cursor vs offset
  4. Timestamps: ISO 8601, timezone, precision

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. yesterday First seen · 89 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 9e9c3cce8591

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-change-documentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 628 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 2026-09-03.

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