agent-ready-apis

agent-ready-apis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin. It costs 33 tokens per session (471 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for judging whether an API is easy for AI agents to discover, understand, call, and recover from when errors occur. It describes checks for API descriptions, parameters, errors, naming, responses, documentation, performance, and discoverability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing an OpenAPI specification or asking whether an API is suitable for AI-agent use and what should be improved.
Why use it?
It helps reveal API design problems that can cause agents to call endpoints incorrectly or fail to recover from errors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the postman plugin — 11 skills, 15 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server 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/postman-devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin/agent-ready-apis
Any agent
npx skills add Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin --skill agent-ready-apis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install postman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 15 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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 agent-ready-apis

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/postman-devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin/agent-ready-apis"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/postman-devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin/agent-ready-apis.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 471 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 $0.00033 $0.00471
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00235
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00047

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8bd4106cba0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-ready-apis 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.

skills/agent-ready-apis/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Agent-Ready APIs

An "agent-ready" API is one that an AI agent can discover, understand, call correctly, and recover from errors without human intervention. Most APIs aren't there yet.

When to Suggest the Analyzer

If the user mentions any of these, suggest running the readiness-analyzer agent:

  • "Is my API agent-ready?"
  • "Can AI agents use my API?"
  • "Scan my API" / "Analyze my spec"
  • "What's wrong with my API for AI?"
  • "How agent-friendly is my API?"
  • "Improve my API for AI agents"

What Gets Evaluated

The analyzer checks 48 items across 8 pillars:

Pillar What It Measures
Metadata operationIds, summaries, descriptions, tags
Errors Error schemas, codes, messages, retry guidance
Introspection Parameter types, required fields, enums, examples
Naming Consistent casing, RESTful paths, HTTP semantics
Predictability Response schemas, pagination, date formats
Documentation Auth docs, rate limits, external links
Performance Rate limit headers, cache, bulk endpoints, async patterns
Discoverability OpenAPI version, server URLs, contact info

Scoring

  • Critical checks (4x weight): Blocks agent usage entirely
  • High checks (2x weight): Causes frequent agent failures
  • Medium checks (1x weight): Degrades agent performance
  • Low checks (0.5x weight): Nice-to-have improvements

Agent Ready = score of 70% or higher with zero critical failures.

Interpreting Results

  • 90-100%: Excellent. Agents can use this API reliably.
  • 70-89%: Agent-ready. Minor improvements possible.
  • 50-69%: Not agent-ready. Key issues need fixing.
  • Below 50%: Significant work needed. Focus on critical failures first.

See pillars.md in this skill folder for the full check reference.

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. 4d ago First seen · 53 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 8bd4106cba0c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-ready-apis is a skill published in the GitHub repository Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin (40 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 471 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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