API Design Consistency

API Design Consistency is a skill for Claude Code from s977043/river-review. It costs 16 tokens per session (829 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An API design review check for consistent resource-based paths, status codes, error responses, versioning, and authorization. An API is an interface that lets one program communicate with another.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing changed API routes and endpoint definitions for naming, response, version, and authorization inconsistencies.
Why use it?
It helps clients work with endpoints in predictable ways and reduces confusion when handling errors or access rules.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the river-review plugin — 138 skills, 18 commands, 5 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing changed API routes and endpoint definitions for naming, response, version, and authorization inconsistencies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/s977043/river-review/api-design
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 s977043/river-review --skill api-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/s977043/river-review

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install river-review, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 138 skills, 18 commands, 5 agents, 3 hooks.

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 Design Consistency

README.md
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Your own site
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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
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 829 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 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 $0.00016 $0.00829
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00083

Measured 7d ago against content hash ca6e41409ac9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

API Design Consistency 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 7d 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/upstream/api-design/SKILL.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

Pattern declaration

Primary pattern: Reviewer Secondary patterns: Inversion Why: APIエンドポイントの命名・エラー応答・認可の一貫性をRESTful基準で検証する。

Rule / ルール

  • エンドポイントはリソース指向の RESTful 命名に従う(動詞を避ける)
  • ステータスコードとエラーレスポンスを一貫させる
  • バージョニングや認可要件を明示する

Heuristics

  • /getUser, /doAction のような動詞ベースのパス
  • 4xx/5xx のステータスやエラー構造がエンドポイントごとに不揃い
  • 認可・バージョンの記載が ADR/設計と乖離

Good / Bad Examples

  • Good: /users/{id}, /projects/{id}/members
  • Bad: /fetchUser, /doLoginNow
  • Good: エラーボディに code/message/detail を含めて統一

Actions / 改善案

  • パスをリソース指向にリネームし、コレクション/単体の区別を明確にする
  • エラー応答を共通スキーマに合わせる
  • ADR/設計で定義した認可・バージョン要件をエンドポイント仕様に反映する

Non-goals / 扱わないこと

  • API ゲートウェイやルーティング基盤の再設計。
  • 既存クライアントの破壊的変更に関する移行計画。
  • 実装レベルのパフォーマンス最適化。

Pre-execution Gate / 実行前ゲート

このスキルは以下の条件がすべて満たされない限りNO_REVIEWを返す。

  • 差分にAPI定義またはルーティング関連ファイル(**/api/**, **/routes/**)が含まれている
  • 差分にエンドポイントの追加・変更・削除が含まれている
  • inputContextにdiffが含まれている

ゲート不成立時の出力: NO_REVIEW: api-design — API定義/ルーティングの変更なし

False-positive guards / 抑制条件

  • 既存の API ガイドラインに完全準拠している差分。
  • 自動生成された API 定義の更新のみで、設計意図に変化がない。

評価指標(Evaluation)

  • 合格基準: 指摘が差分に紐づき、根拠と次アクションが説明されている。
  • 不合格基準: 差分と無関係な指摘、根拠のない断定、抑制条件の無視。

人間に返す条件(Human Handoff)

  • 仕様や意図が不明確で解釈が分かれる場合は質問として返す。
  • 影響範囲が広い設計判断やトレードオフは人間レビューへ返す。
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 7d ago First seen · 79 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A ca6e41409ac9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

API Design Consistency is a skill published in the GitHub repository s977043/river-review (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 829 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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