api-onboarding

api-onboarding is a skill for Claude Code from lingxling/awesome-skills-cn. It costs 46 tokens per session (3,075 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of api-onboarding, MIT.

A guide to improving the path from discovering an API to making a first successful request. It covers authentication, sandbox environments, interactive documentation, and finding steps where developers commonly get stuck.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review API onboarding, simplify authentication, design sandbox environments, and find failures in the first-use experience.
Why use it?
New API users may abandon an integration when credentials, test environments, or instructions are unclear. This helps identify and remove those obstacles.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 174 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review API onboarding, simplify authentication, design sandbox environments, and find failures in the first-use experience.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn/api-onboarding
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 lingxling/awesome-skills-cn --skill api-onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 174 skills.

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-onboarding

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn/api-onboarding/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn/api-onboarding)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn/api-onboarding"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn/api-onboarding/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for api-onboarding

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn/api-onboarding"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn/api-onboarding.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,075 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 98% 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 $0.00046 $0.03075
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01230
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00615
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00308

Measured 19d ago against content hash 449db96a19ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-onboarding 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 19d 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.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_test_YOUR_KEY" ...
Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to api-onboarding — 38 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.

antigravity-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/api-onboarding/SKILL.md · 474 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 474 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reducing Time-to-First-API-Call

When to Use

Use this skill when you need reduce time-to-first-API-call (TTFAC) by optimizing every step of the developer onboarding journey. This skill covers authentication simplification, sandbox environments, interactive documentation, and identifying and eliminating common failure points. Trigger phrases: "API...

The time between a developer discovering your API and successfully making their first call is the most critical window in your entire developer journey. Every minute of friction here costs you potential users.

Overview

Time-to-First-API-Call (TTFAC) is the single most predictive metric for developer adoption. Developers who succeed quickly become active users. Developers who struggle leave—often silently.

This skill covers:

  • Measuring and optimizing TTFAC
  • Removing authentication friction
  • Creating effective sandbox environments
  • Building interactive documentation
  • Identifying and fixing common failure points

Before You Start

Review the developer-audience-context skill to understand:

  • What's the typical technical sophistication of your developers?
  • What tools and environments do they commonly use?
  • What alternative products have they tried? What was their experience?
  • What's their urgency level? (Evaluating vs. building immediately)

Your onboarding should meet developers where they are.

Understanding TTFAC

What TTFAC Measures

Time-to-First-API-Call measures the elapsed time from a developer's first interaction to their first successful API response. This includes:

  1. Discovery time: Finding the "Get Started" content
  2. Signup time: Creating an account
  3. Credential time: Obtaining API keys
  4. Setup time: Installing SDK, configuring environment
  5. Execution time: Running first request
  6. Success time: Receiving successful response

TTFAC Benchmarks

Rating TTFAC Developer Experience
Excellent < 5 min "This is amazing"
Good 5-15 min "Pretty straightforward"
Acceptable 15-30 min "Got there eventually"
Poor 30-60 min "This is frustrating"
Failing > 60 min "I'll try something else"

Read the full file on GitHub · 474 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 19d ago First seen · 474 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 449db96a19ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository lingxling/awesome-skills-cn (321 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 3,075 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 98% identical to api-onboarding, differing in 38 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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