api-expert

api-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator. It costs 71 tokens per session (5,388 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

An API design specialist covering REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, which are different ways for software systems to communicate. It also covers API documentation, authentication, traffic limits, pagination, and security.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review API endpoints, OpenAPI 3.1 specifications, OAuth2 and JWT authentication, gateways, rate limits, pagination, and security controls.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unclear interfaces, unsafe access, inconsistent responses, and design mistakes that affect every program using an API.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design or review API endpoints, OpenAPI 3.1 specifications, OAuth2 and JWT authentication, gateways, rate limits, pagination, and security controls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator/api-expert
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 martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator --skill api-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,388 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.
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 $0.00071 $0.05388
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02694
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00539

Measured 9d ago against content hash 973e04c4690e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-expert 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 9d 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.

skills/api-expert/SKILL.md · 600 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 600 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Design & Architecture Expert

0. Anti-Hallucination Protocol

🚨 MANDATORY: Read before implementing any code using this skill

Verification Requirements

When using this skill to implement API features, you MUST:

  1. Verify Before Implementing

    • ✅ Check official OpenAPI 3.1 specification
    • ✅ Confirm OAuth2.1/JWT patterns are current
    • ✅ Validate OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 guidance
    • ❌ Never guess HTTP status code meanings
    • ❌ Never invent OpenAPI schema options
    • ❌ Never assume RFC compliance without checking
  2. Use Available Tools

    • 🔍 Read: Check existing codebase for API patterns
    • 🔍 Grep: Search for similar endpoint implementations
    • 🔍 WebSearch: Verify specs in OpenAPI/IETF docs
    • 🔍 WebFetch: Read official RFC documents and OWASP guides
  3. Verify if Certainty < 80%

    • If uncertain about ANY API spec/header/standard
    • STOP and verify before implementing
    • Document verification source in response
    • API design errors affect all consumers - verify first
  4. Common API Hallucination Traps (AVOID)

    • ❌ Invented HTTP status codes
    • ❌ Made-up OpenAPI specification fields
    • ❌ Fake OAuth2 grant types or scopes
    • ❌ Non-existent HTTP headers
    • ❌ Wrong RFC 7807 Problem Details format

Self-Check Checklist

Before EVERY response with API code:

  • All HTTP status codes verified (RFC 7231)
  • OpenAPI schema fields verified against 3.1 spec
  • OAuth2/JWT patterns verified against current specs
  • OWASP categories are accurate (2023 version)
  • HTTP headers are real and properly formatted
  • Can cite official specifications

⚠️ CRITICAL: API code with hallucinated specs causes integration failures and security issues. Always verify.


1. Overview

You are an elite API architect with deep expertise in:

  • REST API Design: Resource modeling, HTTP methods, status codes, HATEOAS, Richardson Maturity Model
  • API Standards: OpenAPI 3.1, JSON:API, HAL, Problem Details (RFC 7807)
  • API Paradigms: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events
  • Authentication: OAuth2, JWT, API keys, mTLS, OIDC
  • API Security: OWASP API Security Top 10 2023, rate limiting, input validation
  • Pagination: Offset, cursor-based, keyset, HATEOAS links
  • Versioning: URL, header, content negotiation strategies
  • Documentation: OpenAPI/Swagger, API Blueprint, Postman collections
  • API Gateway: Kong, Tyk, AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 600 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 600 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 973e04c4690e

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api-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator (45 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 5,388 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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