openapi-directory-first

openapi-directory-first is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from klh/speedy-claude. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,039 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A method for finding accurate machine-readable descriptions of public REST APIs in the APIs-guru OpenAPI Directory. OpenAPI is a format that describes an API's endpoints, inputs, authentication, and responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before building or debugging public REST API integrations, checking endpoint parameters and response formats, or generating API clients and types.
Why use it?
It reduces errors caused by relying on outdated memory or scattered documentation when connecting to services such as Stripe, GitHub, or Slack.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/klh/speedy-claude/openapi-directory-first
Any agent
npx skills add klh/speedy-claude --skill openapi-directory-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/klh/speedy-claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,039 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 5.1 $0.00070 $0.01039
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00104

Measured yesterday against content hash fa74c62df8da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

openapi-directory-first scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/APIs-guru/openapi-directory/contents/APIs/{provider.com}" | python3 -c "

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/APIs-guru/openapi-directory/contents/APIs/{provider.com}" | python3 -c "
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills-available/openapi-directory-first/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenAPI Directory First

Overview

Always check the APIs-guru/openapi-directory for authoritative, machine-readable API specs before relying on training data or web searches. This directory contains 2500+ public API definitions in OpenAPI format, auto-updated weekly from original sources.

Core rule: Training data goes stale. OpenAPI specs are the source of truth.

When to Use

  • Writing code that calls any public REST API
  • Looking up endpoint parameters, auth, request/response schemas
  • Debugging API integration issues (wrong params, unexpected responses)
  • Generating API client code or types
  • Answering questions about how a public API works

When NOT to Use

  • Internal/private APIs (not in the directory)
  • GraphQL APIs (directory is REST/OpenAPI only)
  • When you already have the project's own OpenAPI spec locally

The Workflow

digraph api_lookup {
  "Need API info" -> "Check openapi-directory";
  "Check openapi-directory" -> "Found?";
  "Found" -> "Use the spec";
  "Not found" -> "Fallback: doc site or context7";
  "Use the spec" -> "Still need examples?";
  "Still need examples?" -> "Yes: search web" [label="yes"];
  "Still need examples?" -> "Done" [label="no"];
}

How to Look Up

Step 1: Find the API

Search the directory for the provider domain:

# List available APIs for a provider
curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/APIs-guru/openapi-directory/contents/APIs/{provider.com}" | python3 -c "
import json,sys
data=json.load(sys.stdin)
for item in data:
    print(f'{item[\"name\"]}')"

Common provider domains: stripe.com, github.com, spotify.com, amazonaws.com, googleapis.com, microsoft.com, twilio.com, slack.com, shopify.com, paypal.com, sendgrid.com, notion.com, figma.com

Step 2: Pick the latest version

Providers often have multiple API versions. Use the most recent dated folder.

Step 3: Fetch the spec

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/APIs-guru/openapi-directory/main/APIs/{provider.com}/{version}/openapi.yaml

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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 Changed · +2 lines fa74c62df8da
  2. 6d ago First seen · 112 lines · 70 tokens per session scan C f0114bc380a3

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openapi-directory-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository klh/speedy-claude (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,039 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, 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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