api-design-principles

api-design-principles is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Microck/ordinary-claude-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (3,345 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to designing REST and GraphQL APIs, which are interfaces that let software exchange data. It covers principles for making APIs understandable, scalable, and maintainable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing an API, reviewing an API specification, or setting standards for API design.
Why use it?
It helps avoid confusing or inconsistent API designs before they become harder to change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when designing an API, reviewing an API specification, or setting standards for API design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microck/ordinary-claude-skills/api-design-principles
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 Microck/ordinary-claude-skills --skill api-design-principles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Microck/ordinary-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,345 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 unknown 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 $0.00044 $0.03345
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01673
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00669
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00334

Measured 9d ago against content hash bcdb7b3e3145, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-design-principles 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_all/api-design-principles/SKILL.md · 528 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 528 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A bcdb7b3e3145

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-design-principles is a skill published in the GitHub repository Microck/ordinary-claude-skills (394 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 3,345 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 2026-08-30.

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