api-builder

api-builder is a skill for Claude Code from nlinhvu/learn-java-frameworks-marketplace. It costs 102 tokens per session (3,704 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A coding guide that implements one API feature from an existing project as simplified Java code. An API is the set of functions, classes, or endpoints that other code can use; an outline file is required first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build the next feature in an API-learning project, with working Java source, tests, and documentation based on a planned outline.
Why use it?
It turns a broad reimplementation task into one complete feature, from the public interface through its internal code. It also produces tutorial material that explains the implementation choices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the api-learning plugin — 2 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to build the next feature in an API-learning project, with working Java source, tests, and documentation based on a planned outline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nlinhvu/learn-java-frameworks-marketplace/api-builder
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 nlinhvu/learn-java-frameworks-marketplace --skill api-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nlinhvu/learn-java-frameworks-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install api-learning, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 3 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,704 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 $0.00102 $0.03704
Opus 5.5 $0.00041 $0.01482
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00741
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00370

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4d60d9454b06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-builder 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 1mo 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.

plugins/api-learning/skills/api-builder/SKILL.md · 359 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 359 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Builder — API-First Implementation

Philosophy: API Contract First, Then Implement Inward

Each feature is a vertical slice — a single API capability traced from the source project's public surface down through every internal layer needed to make it work. The source project can be in any language (Python, Go, Rust, Node.js, C#, Ruby, Java, etc.), but the output is always a simplified Java reimplementation. The implementation follows the same direction a contributor would: "I see the API, I want to understand how it works, so I trace the code from the public method inward."

This produces two artifacts, one truth:

  1. Working Java code in src/ — compiles, tests pass, is the source of truth
  2. Rich tutorial chapter in api-docs/ — reads back actual source files, never diverges, enriched with ★ Insight blocks and Mermaid diagrams at every design decision

Every simplification choice, layer boundary, technology mapping decision, and API design decision is a teaching moment. The learner doesn't just see WHAT was built — they understand WHY each choice was made and what alternatives were considered.

MANDATORY: Use Extended Thinking

Use extended thinking before implementing. The quality of the vertical slice depends on deep upfront reasoning about both the source project and the simplified Java version. Before writing any code:

  • Study the source project's API contract and its full call chain from surface to internals (in any language)
  • Design the simplified Java public API class/interface — method signatures, parameter types, return types
  • Plan the depth layers — which layers this feature needs and what to simplify at each
  • Map source language concepts to Java equivalents (e.g., Python decorators to annotations, Go channels to queues)
  • Determine what to reuse and extend from prior features' internals
  • Design the client-perspective tests that will define the API's behavioral contract

Skipping extended thinking leads to vertical slices with incorrect API contracts, missing depth layers, or implementations that break prior features' tests.

Read the full file on GitHub · 359 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 359 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 4d60d9454b06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository nlinhvu/learn-java-frameworks-marketplace (20 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 3,704 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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