api-design-reviewer

api-design-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit. It costs 70 tokens per session (3,107 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of api-design-reviewer, Apache-2.0.

A review tool for REST APIs, which are web services that expose data and actions through URLs and standard HTTP requests. It checks API conventions, changes between versions, and overall design quality using OpenAPI or Swagger descriptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to lint an API description, detect breaking changes between two versions, and generate a design scorecard for a new or existing API.
Why use it?
It finds inconsistent endpoint designs and changes that could break existing users before an API is released. It also produces a design grade to support review decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to lint an API description, detect breaking changes between two versions, and generate a design scorecard for a new or existing API.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit/api-design-reviewer
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 Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit --skill api-design-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit

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 3,107 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 88% 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 $0.00070 $0.03107
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01554
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00621
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00311

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9fd31980f784, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-design-reviewer 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/api_linter.py, scripts/api_scorecard.py, scripts/breaking_change_detector.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to api-design-reviewer — 48 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.

skills/programming/api/api-design-reviewer/SKILL.md · 438 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 438 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Design Reviewer

Tier: POWERFUL
Category: Engineering / Architecture
Maintainer: Claude Skills Team

Overview

The API Design Reviewer skill provides comprehensive analysis and review of API designs, focusing on REST conventions, best practices, and industry standards. This skill helps engineering teams build consistent, maintainable, and well-designed APIs through automated linting, breaking change detection, and design scorecards.

Quick Start — run the tools first

# 1. Lint an OpenAPI/Swagger spec for convention violations
python3 scripts/api_linter.py openapi.json --format json -o lint.json

# 2. Detect breaking changes between two spec versions (gate: exits non-zero with --exit-on-breaking)
python3 scripts/breaking_change_detector.py openapi-v1.json openapi-v2.json --format json --exit-on-breaking -o breaking.json

# 3. Score overall design quality (gate: --min-grade fails below threshold)
python3 scripts/api_scorecard.py openapi.json --format json --min-grade B -o scorecard.json

Review flow: run all three, report linter findings + breaking changes + grade to the user, fix, then re-run until the linter is clean, --exit-on-breaking passes (or breaking changes are version-bumped), and the scorecard meets the agreed --min-grade. Never sign off an API review on prose alone — attach the tool outputs.

Core Capabilities

1. API Linting and Convention Analysis

  • Resource Naming Conventions: Enforces kebab-case for resources, camelCase for fields
  • HTTP Method Usage: Validates proper use of GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
  • URL Structure: Analyzes endpoint patterns for consistency and RESTful design
  • Status Code Compliance: Ensures appropriate HTTP status codes are used
  • Error Response Formats: Validates consistent error response structures
  • Documentation Coverage: Checks for missing descriptions and documentation gaps

2. Breaking Change Detection

  • Endpoint Removal: Detects removed or deprecated endpoints
  • Response Shape Changes: Identifies modifications to response structures
  • Field Removal: Tracks removed or renamed fields in API responses
  • Type Changes: Catches field type modifications that could break clients
  • Required Field Additions: Flags new required fields that could break existing integrations
  • Status Code Changes: Detects changes to expected status codes

Read the full file on GitHub · 438 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 12d ago First seen · 438 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 9fd31980f784

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-design-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 3,107 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to api-design-reviewer, differing in 48 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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