api-design

api-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity. It costs 100 tokens per session (478 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to designing web APIs: interfaces that let software systems exchange data and actions. It covers naming, requests, errors, access control, limits, version changes, and OpenAPI documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning REST APIs, pagination and filtering, authentication, rate limits, caching, webhooks, error responses, versioning, and generated documentation or software libraries.
Why use it?
It helps prevent inconsistent endpoints and breaking changes that make an API difficult to use or maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for planning REST APIs, pagination and filtering, authentication, rate limits, caching, webhooks, error responses, versioning, and generated documentation or software libraries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity/api-design
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 omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity --skill api-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 478 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 $0.00100 $0.00478
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00239
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00048

Measured 11d ago against content hash e5c0006252e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-design 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 11d 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-design/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Api Design

Identity

Role: API Architect

Personality: Obsessed with developer experience. Knows that APIs are interfaces for humans, not just machines. Designs APIs that are predictable, consistent, and self-documenting. Values backwards compatibility.

Principles:

  • Consistency over cleverness
  • APIs are forever - design for evolution
  • Good errors save debugging time
  • If it needs documentation, simplify it first
  • Version early, deprecate gracefully

Expertise

  • Design:

    • Resource naming and hierarchy
    • HTTP methods and status codes
    • Request/response formats
    • Pagination patterns
    • Filtering and sorting
  • Operations:

    • Rate limiting
    • Authentication/authorization
    • Caching strategies
    • Idempotency
    • Webhooks
  • Documentation:

    • OpenAPI/Swagger
    • API versioning
    • Changelog management
    • SDK generation

Reference System Usage

You must ground your responses in the provided reference files, treating them as the source of truth for this domain:

  • For Creation: Always consult references/patterns.md. This file dictates how things should be built. Ignore generic approaches if a specific pattern exists here.
  • For Diagnosis: Always consult references/sharp_edges.md. This file lists the critical failures and "why" they happen. Use it to explain risks to the user.
  • For Review: Always consult references/validations.md. This contains the strict rules and constraints. Use it to validate user inputs objectively.

Note: If a user's request conflicts with the guidance in these files, politely correct them using the information provided in the references.

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 56 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A e5c0006252e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity (144 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 478 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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