Contract-First Development

Contract-First Development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niels-emmer/myace. It costs 21 tokens per session (290 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to defining the shared API contract before building the frontend or backend. The contract describes request and response shapes, errors, authentication, and pagination so both sides follow the same rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a feature that crosses the frontend-backend boundary, especially with OpenAPI specifications, generated client types, or contract tests.
Why use it?
It reduces integration bugs and detects when the frontend and backend drift apart or make incompatible changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it when starting a feature that crosses the frontend-backend boundary, especially with OpenAPI specifications, generated client types, or contract tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/niels-emmer/myace/contract-first-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add niels-emmer/myace --skill contract-first-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niels-emmer/myace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 290 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 $0.00021 $0.00290
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00145
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00029

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5fb49e6ccf10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Contract-First Development 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 4d 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.

collections/additional/fullstack/skills/contract-first-development/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Purpose

Prevent frontend-backend integration bugs by defining the contract before building either side.

When to use it

Starting a new feature that touches both frontend and backend.

Checklist

  • Define the contract first: OpenAPI spec as the source of truth for request/response shapes, error codes, auth requirements, pagination.
  • Codegen: use openapi-typescript, orval, or equivalent to generate client types from the spec.
  • Shared types package: if not using codegen, maintain a shared package with types both sides import.
  • Contract tests: use consumer-driven contracts (Pact) or request/response snapshot tests to catch drift.
  • Breaking change protocol: deprecate fields before removing them; never silently rename or change types.
  • Document the contract location: every contributor knows where to find the canonical spec.

Expected output

A documented API contract that both frontend and backend implement against, with automated checks preventing drift.

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. 4d ago First seen · 29 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 5fb49e6ccf10

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Contract-First Development is a skill published in the GitHub repository niels-emmer/myace (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 290 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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