api-discovery

api-discovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nvsecurity/nightvision-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,640 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for extracting OpenAPI specifications, machine-readable descriptions of web APIs, from source code with NightVision API Discovery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract or compare API specifications, check framework support, resolve extraction problems, and trace vulnerabilities back to source files and lines.
Why use it?
It helps document an API without running or compiling the application and can connect scan findings to the exact source locations involved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the nightvision-skills plugin — 5 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvsecurity/nightvision-skills/api-discovery
Any agent
npx skills add nvsecurity/nightvision-skills --skill api-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nvsecurity/nightvision-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nightvision-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for api-discovery

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nvsecurity/nightvision-skills/api-discovery.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nvsecurity/nightvision-skills/api-discovery)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nvsecurity/nightvision-skills/api-discovery"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nvsecurity/nightvision-skills/api-discovery.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,640 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00050 $0.01640
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00820
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00164

Measured 5d ago against content hash a46387698fd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-discovery 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 5d 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-discovery/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NightVision API Discovery

Use this skill when helping users generate OpenAPI specifications from their source code using nightvision swagger extract. API Discovery performs static analysis — no running application or compilation needed — and annotates the spec with source file paths and line numbers (Code Traceback) so that vulnerabilities found during DAST scans trace back to exact code locations.

Agent workflow

When a user asks to extract or document their API:

  1. Check prerequisites — verify the NightVision CLI is available (nightvision --help)
  2. Examine the repo — identify the backend language and web framework to determine the --lang flag and whether the framework is supported (see references/framework-support.md)
  3. Run extraction — execute nightvision swagger extract with the appropriate flags. On success, the CLI prints "Swagger file extracted successfully." and writes the spec to the output path (default: openapi-spec.yml)
  4. Review the output — read the generated spec to check completeness. Handle unresolved variables if nv.config was created alongside the spec
  5. Compare coverage — if the user has an existing spec, run nightvision swagger diff to show what was discovered vs. what was documented
  6. Upload to target — attach the spec to a NightVision target for scanning

Related skills: Use scan-configuration for target/auth setup, ci-cd-integration for pipeline integration, scan-triage for interpreting scan results.

Language flags

Language Flag Frameworks
Python --lang python Django, DRF, Flask, Flask-RESTful, FastAPI
Java --lang java Spring Boot, JAX-RS/Jersey, Micronaut, Java EE/Jakarta EE
JavaScript --lang js Express, NestJS, Fastify
C# --lang dotnet ASP.NET Core (controllers, minimal APIs)
Go --lang go Gin, httprouter, net/http (experimental)
Ruby --lang ruby Rails, Grape

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 157 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A a46387698fd2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository nvsecurity/nightvision-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,640 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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