api-versioning-helper

api-versioning-helper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LambdaTest/agent-skills. It costs 138 tokens per session (1,353 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for choosing how an API changes over time while keeping existing clients working. An API is a defined way for programs to communicate, and versioning marks differences between its released forms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design an API versioning strategy, classify breaking changes, plan deprecation, and write migration instructions for users moving to a newer version.
Why use it?
It clarifies which changes are safe, which would break clients, and how to retire an old version. It also explains common approaches such as putting the version in the URL or a request header.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design an API versioning strategy, classify breaking changes, plan deprecation, and write migration instructions for users moving to a newer version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lambdatest/agent-skills/api-versioning-helper
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 LambdaTest/agent-skills --skill api-versioning-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LambdaTest/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,353 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 77
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 89
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00138 $0.01353
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00677
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00135

Measured 8d ago against content hash 24f0912c4927, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-versioning-helper 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 8d 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.

api-skill/api-versioning-helper/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Versioning Skill

Design sustainable versioning strategies and manage API evolution without breaking clients.


Versioning Strategies Comparison

Strategy Example Pros Cons
URI versioning /v1/users Simple, visible, cacheable URL proliferation
Header versioning API-Version: 2024-01 Clean URLs Harder to test/share
Query param /users?version=2 Easy to override Pollutes query string
Accept header Accept: application/vnd.api+json;v=2 REST-pure Complex client setup
Date-based (Stripe) Stripe-Version: 2023-10-16 Fine-grained, changelog-linked Harder to communicate

Recommendation: Use URI versioning (/v1/, /v2/) for public APIs. Use date-based for SDKs that pin a version.


Breaking vs Non-Breaking Changes

Non-breaking (safe to ship without version bump)

  • Adding new optional fields to responses
  • Adding new optional request fields
  • Adding new endpoints
  • Adding new enum values (if client ignores unknowns)
  • Relaxing validation rules
  • Bug fixes that align with documented behavior

Breaking (require new version)

  • Removing fields from responses
  • Renaming fields
  • Changing field types (string → int)
  • Making optional fields required
  • Changing error codes or error shapes
  • Removing endpoints
  • Changing authentication method
  • Adding required request fields
  • Changing HTTP method for an endpoint

Versioning Lifecycle

v1 ACTIVE     → v2 BETA      → v2 GA        → v1 DEPRECATED  → v1 SUNSET
              (6 months)     (12 months)     (6 month notice)  (410 Gone)

Deprecation Response Header

Deprecation: true
Sunset: Sat, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Link: <https://api.example.com/v2/users>; rel="successor-version"

Sunset Response (after deadline)

HTTP/1.1 410 Gone
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "error": "version_sunset",
  "message": "API v1 was sunset on 2025-01-01. Please migrate to v2.",
  "migration_guide": "https://docs.example.com/migrations/v1-to-v2",
  "v2_endpoint": "https://api.example.com/v2/users"
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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. 8d ago First seen · 183 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A 24f0912c4927

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-versioning-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository LambdaTest/agent-skills (367 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 1,353 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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