api-gateway-proxy-expert

api-gateway-proxy-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from roedyrustam/vibes-plug. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,126 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to API gateways, reverse proxies, and service meshes for controlling traffic between users and microservices. It covers Kong, Tyk, Traefik, Caddy, NGINX, and related routing patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing microservice routing, configuring API gateways or reverse proxies, setting up SSL/TLS termination, splitting traffic for blue-green or canary releases, or answering questions about Kong, Traefik, or NGINX.
Why use it?
It helps avoid piecing together traffic routing, security, and deployment rules from scattered documentation. It explains how to provide one entry point for services and manage concerns such as TLS, rate limits, and access rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing microservice routing, configuring API gateways or reverse proxies, setting up SSL/TLS termination, splitting traffic for blue-green or canary releases, or answering questions about Kong, Traefik, or NGINX.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/roedyrustam/vibes-plug/api-gateway-proxy-expert
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add roedyrustam/vibes-plug --skill api-gateway-proxy-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/roedyrustam/vibes-plug

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,126 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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  • medium Excessive Agency · line 40
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
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How audits are shown
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 $0.00056 $0.01126
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00563
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00113

Measured 9d ago against content hash 56513dc48405, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-gateway-proxy-expert 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 9d 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-gateway-proxy-expert/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Gateway & Reverse Proxy Expert

English | Bahasa Indonesia


English

Description

A comprehensive guide for routing, load balancing, and managing traffic at the perimeter of your microservices architecture. Covers configuring API Gateways (Kong, Tyk), modern reverse proxies (Traefik, Caddy, NGINX), and understanding Service Mesh patterns.

Trigger Conditions

  • When architecting a microservices backend that needs a unified entry point (BFF - Backend for Frontend).
  • When configuring SSL/TLS termination, rate limiting, or IP allowlisting at the infrastructure level.
  • When the user asks about "Traefik", "NGINX config", "Kong", or "API routing".
  • When implementing blue-green deployments or canary releases via traffic splitting.

Core Architectural Guidelines

1. API Gateway Pattern

Instead of client applications calling individual microservices, route all traffic through an API Gateway.

  • Cross-Cutting Concerns: Offload authentication (JWT verification), rate limiting, and CORS handling to the Gateway.
  • Routing: Use path-based routing (e.g., /api/users -> Users Service, /api/billing -> Billing Service).
2. Tool Selection
  • Traefik: Best for Docker/Kubernetes environments due to its auto-discovery capabilities via labels/annotations.
  • Caddy: Best for simplicity and automatic HTTPS (Let's Encrypt provisioning).
  • Kong API Gateway: Best for enterprise environments requiring extensive plugins (OIDC, rate limiting, analytics).
  • Cloudflare (Edge): Use Cloudflare rules for edge-level caching, WAF, and DDoS protection before traffic even reaches your origin proxy.
3. Configuration Best Practices
  • Timeouts: Always configure strict proxy read/write timeouts to prevent stalled connections from exhausting worker pools.
  • Health Checks: Configure active health checks so the proxy can automatically remove failing backend instances from the load balancer pool.
  • X-Forwarded Headers: Ensure your proxy correctly sets X-Forwarded-For and X-Forwarded-Proto so backend services know the client's real IP and protocol.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 82 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 56513dc48405

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api-gateway-proxy-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository roedyrustam/vibes-plug (49 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,126 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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