api-review

api-review is a skill for Claude Code from robbyt/claude-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (3,338 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for reviewing and designing backend APIs, including REST and gRPC interfaces, which are ways for software services to communicate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing APIs, reviewing REST or gRPC designs, evaluating backend-for-frontend architecture, and discussing API details such as updates, caching, and consistency.
Why use it?
It helps identify incorrect endpoint behavior and choose suitable API patterns, such as when to use PATCH or PUT and how to handle ETags.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the api-design plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Auditing APIs, reviewing REST or gRPC designs, evaluating backend-for-frontend architecture, and discussing API details such as updates, caching, and consistency.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robbyt/claude-skills/api-review
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 robbyt/claude-skills --skill api-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robbyt/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install api-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/api-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/api-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/api-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/api-review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/api-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/api-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,338 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 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 $0.00145 $0.03338
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01669
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00668
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00334

Measured 10d ago against content hash bf6ca876d0c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-review 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 10d 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.

plugins/api-design/skills/api-review/SKILL.md · 217 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

Files

What ships with it

37 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. 10d ago First seen · 217 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A bf6ca876d0c0

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api-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository robbyt/claude-skills (42 stars, last pushed 24d ago), with no licence file. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 3,338 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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