review-api-changes

review-api-changes is a skill for Claude Code from tomzx/agents. It costs 90 tokens per session (5,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A static review guide for changes to an HTTP or RPC API, the interface that programs use to communicate with a service. It checks endpoints, request and response fields, status codes, authentication, pagination, versioning, and compatibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on a pull request, branch, or diff that changes routes, OpenAPI or protocol schemas, authentication, errors, pagination, or other public API behavior.
Why use it?
It helps detect changes that could break existing API clients, such as removing fields or making a parameter required. It does not call the running API, so live behavior needs a separate check.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it on a pull request, branch, or diff that changes routes, OpenAPI or protocol schemas, authentication, errors, pagination, or other public API behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tomzx/agents/review-api-changes
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill review-api-changes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,002 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00090 $0.05002
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.02001
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01000
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00500

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2f4cc13ee6e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-api-changes 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 6d 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/review-api-changes/SKILL.md · 412 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 412 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review API Changes

Reviews a change to an API contract and reports findings. It answers one question: will this change break an existing consumer, and if so is that handled? Covering breaking-change detection, additive compatibility, versioning and deprecation, resource and method semantics, status codes and error bodies, pagination, auth and rate limits, idempotency, and schema-to-code drift.

The contract is what a consumer compiles against or calls over the wire. A field type change, a new required parameter, or a removed enum value is a breaking change even when the handler is correct. It is the change-time companion to /review-pr, which keeps general code craft, and to /review-sdk-changes, which reviews the client library wrapping the contract.

This review is static: it does not call the API, so behavior observed against a running service is /verify-pr's to prove.

Prerequisites

  • Apply the shared SDLC conventions in skills/sdlc/references/shared.md (PR Review Reports for report location and posting rules).
  • Apply the shared evidence standard in ../sdlc/references/evidence.md. Static claims carry L1 - Cited or L2 - Ruled out; a decisive claim proven by a read-only command (for example diffing two schema files) can reach L3 - Executed.
  • The change to review, in one of these forms:
    • a PR number plus repository (/review-api-changes 42 acme/api),
    • a git diff ref (for example origin/main..HEAD),
    • a worktree directory, or a changeset already in context.
  • The contract at the base revision, so before/after can be compared: the route definitions, the OpenAPI or proto schema, the serializers, and the validation rules.
  • The published schema file when the project keeps one, to check schema-to-code drift.
  • .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/specifications.md when one exists (optional; used for contract-vs-spec checks).

Skill attribution (GitHub)

Read the full file on GitHub · 412 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. 6d ago Changed · -2 lines 2f4cc13ee6e3
  2. 9d ago Changed · +12 lines 6209be57b7e8
  3. 11d ago First seen · 402 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 526dcef5b327

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review-api-changes is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 5,002 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 2026-10-19.

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