api-and-interface-design

api-and-interface-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 60 tokens per session (841 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of api-and-interface-design, Apache-2.0.

A tool for designing or changing a public API, web route, command-line option, or module boundary, including its meaning, errors, and consumers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps document an interface, update every known caller, and migrate a codebase from an old signature, alias, or entry point to the new contract.
Why use it?
It prevents different parts of a codebase from using conflicting contracts and removes old interfaces after the new one is adopted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-code plugin — 52 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/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/api-and-interface-design
Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill api-and-interface-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 841 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00060 $0.00841
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00420
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00084

Measured 2d ago against content hash d48c68f1e634, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-and-interface-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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to api-and-interface-design — 0 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.

plugins/odin-code/skills/api-and-interface-design/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API and interface design

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Designing or changing a public API, route, CLI flag, or module boundary.
Authority Write only named local interface definitions and contract docs before implementation; rollback by discarding the uncommitted draft.
Side effect Interface definitions and contract docs written before implementation; consumer files edited onto the new contract and legacy paths (old signatures, aliases, re-exports, deprecated entry points) deleted during cutover; no build, publish, or remote mutation.
Done Contract is documented with semantics and errors, every consumer is migrated, and no legacy path remains.

Inputs

The interface being designed or changed: its name and kind (API endpoint, route, CLI flag, or module boundary), and whether it is new or a change to an existing interface. The current contract text, when changing an existing interface. The list of known consumers, found by search over the codebase. Optional: target language or runtime conventions for type and error spelling.

Procedure

  1. Bound scope before any mutation: name the exact interface and whether it is new or a change. Search the codebase for every consumer and record the list; record any consumer that cannot be inspected as an unmigrated risk. Done when: every consumer is listed and uninspectable ones are marked as risks.
  2. Write the contract before implementation. For each operation, field, or flag, document its name, input types, output type, error cases, and side effects. State semantics explicitly: idempotent or not, ordering, nullability, encoding, and concurrency. Done when: every operation, field, and flag has documented semantics and errors.
  3. For a change to an existing interface, classify it as breaking or non-breaking. If breaking, design the cutover in one change: the new contract, the per-consumer migration, and the removal of the legacy path. Done when: the cutover is designed as one change.
  4. Validate inputs at the trust boundary per the documented contract: reject malformed input with a documented error; do not silently coerce or default undocumented values. Done when: malformed input is rejected with a documented error.
  5. Migrate every consumer to the new contract. Update each consumer so it compiles or type-checks against the new signature; record a consumer as migrated only after it is updated. Done when: every consumer is updated and recorded as migrated.
  6. Remove the legacy path: delete the old signature, alias, re-export, and deprecated entry point. No compatibility shim, alias, or fallback remains. Done when: a search for the old signature returns no live reference.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 2d ago First seen · 39 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A d48c68f1e634

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api-and-interface-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 841 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to api-and-interface-design, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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