get-api-docs

get-api-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment. It costs 94 tokens per session (829 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for retrieving current documentation for third-party libraries, software development kits, and web APIs through the chub command-line tool. They also explain how to record useful discoveries as local notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding the right documentation, fetching it for a programming language, using it to write code, and saving notes about limitations or workarounds.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of writing code against outdated or incorrectly remembered API details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Finding the right documentation, fetching it for a programming language, using it to write code, and saving notes about limitations or workarounds.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/get-api-docs
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 thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment --skill get-api-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 get-api-docs

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/get-api-docs/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/get-api-docs)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/get-api-docs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/get-api-docs/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for get-api-docs

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/get-api-docs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/get-api-docs.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 94 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 $0.00094 $0.00829
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00332
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00083

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8d1e05e24390, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

get-api-docs 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

DotNetClaw/.github/skills/get-api-docs/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Get API Docs via chub

When you need documentation for a library or API, fetch it with the chub CLI rather than guessing from training data. This gives you the current, correct API.

Step 1 — Find the right doc ID

chub search "<library name>" --json

Pick the best-matching id from the results (e.g. openai/chat, anthropic/sdk, stripe/api). If nothing matches, try a broader term.

Step 2 — Fetch the docs

chub get <id> --lang py    # or --lang js, --lang ts

Omit --lang if the doc has only one language variant — it will be auto-selected.

Step 3 — Use the docs

Read the fetched content and use it to write accurate code or answer the question. Do not rely on memorized API shapes — use what the docs say.

Step 4 — Annotate what you learned

After completing the task, if you discovered something not in the doc — a gotcha, workaround, version quirk, or project-specific detail — save it so future sessions start smarter:

chub annotate <id> "Webhook verification requires raw body — do not parse before verifying"

Annotations are local, persist across sessions, and appear automatically on future chub get calls. Keep notes concise and actionable. Don't repeat what's already in the doc.

Step 5 — Give feedback

Always rate the doc after using it. This helps authors fix outdated or incorrect docs and prioritize improvements. Include a label and a brief comment explaining what was good or what needs fixing — specific feedback is the most valuable.

chub feedback <id> up --label accurate "Clear examples, models are current"
chub feedback <id> down --label outdated "Lists gpt-4o as latest but gpt-5.4 is out"

Available labels: outdated, inaccurate, incomplete, wrong-examples, wrong-version, poorly-structured, accurate, well-structured, helpful, good-examples.

If you notice the doc has wrong model names, deprecated APIs, missing features, or incorrect code patterns, always leave a downvote with details so it can be fixed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 1mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 8d1e05e24390

Subscribe to this mod's changes

get-api-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment (27 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 829 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

phoenix-cli-development

Design and implementation guide for the Phoenix CLI (px). Covers the noun-verb command structure, dual-audience design (humans and coding agents), Commander.js patterns, configuration resolution, output formats, exit codes, and conventions for adding or modifying commands. Triggers when working on phoenix-cli commands…

Arize-ai/phoenix · 105 tokens

phoenix-graphql

Write efficient GraphQL queries against the Phoenix API. Load this skill in two cases: (1) before composing any non-trivial GraphQL query yourself for data analysis (via the phoenix-gql bash command) — it contains schema entrypoints and patterns that eliminate the need for introspection; (2) when the user asks for…

Arize-ai/phoenix · 102 tokens

phoenix-otel-development

Guide for the phoenix-otel TypeScript package — OTel registration, stack-based global provider management, and provider lifecycle.

Arize-ai/phoenix · 30 tokens

voicelive-realtime

Azure AI VoiceLive SDK (1.2.0, async-only): a guided interview that confirms managed-model vs Foundry-hosted BYOM before writing config, the managed model catalogue, local microphone/speaker prototypes, connect(), RequestSession, turn detection, barge-in, audio formats, voices, interim responses, and tools. Load for…

JinLee794/agent-framework-skills · 101 tokens

maf-voice-agent

Repo layout, fixed MAF-bridge topology, two-resource default with optional alternate VoiceLive overrides, and conformance checklist. Load when scaffolding, placing code/config, or reviewing this Foundry + Azure AI Search voice seed before it ships.

JinLee794/agent-framework-skills · 54 tokens

mem0-oss-to-platform

Plan, then execute, a migration of a project from the mem0 open-source / self-hosted SDK (local Memory class) to the mem0 Platform / hosted SDK (MemoryClient). TRIGGER when: the developer wants to move, switch, or migrate mem0 off OSS/self-hosted to the hosted API, e.g. "migrate my mem0 setup to the platform", "switch…

mem0ai/mem0 · 217 tokens