api-request-builder

api-request-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from proflead/codex-skills-library. It costs 29 tokens per session (156 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A basic example of an HTTP request, using curl or fetch, for calling an API over the web.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing quick API requests with the correct method, URL, headers, and request data when those details are known.
Why use it?
It gives a junior developer a usable request example without having to assemble the syntax from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Writing quick API requests with the correct method, URL, headers, and request data when those details are known.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/proflead/codex-skills-library/api-request-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 proflead/codex-skills-library --skill api-request-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proflead/codex-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 156 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00029 $0.00156
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00062
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00016

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b32c9cd86cbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-request-builder scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

description: Build a basic HTTP request (curl or fetch) for an API. Use when a junior developer needs a quick request example.
skills/api/api-request-builder/SKILL.md · 28 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 28 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b32c9cd86cbd

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api-request-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository proflead/codex-skills-library (160 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 156 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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