api-mapping

api-mapping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant. It costs 12 tokens per session (891 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for recording and examining the API surface of a web service. An API is the interface that lets software exchange data with that service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map a service’s API through automatic browsing or by manually using the service while its requests are recorded.
Why use it?
It helps reveal which network requests a website makes, so you can understand how an integration might work before building it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to map a service’s API through automatic browsing or by…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/api-mapping
About the project

Vellum Assistant is a personal AI assistant that remembers information about users, learns their preferences, and takes actions across connected apps. It is intended for people who want an assistant that can manage conversations, unfinished work, and proactive notifications over time. The catalogue skills, hooks, instruction, and setting configure or extend how the assistant works.

vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 1,194 stars · on GitHub · vellum.ai

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 vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill api-mapping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 891 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 $0.00012 $0.00891
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00089

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5ea882903680, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-mapping 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 3d 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-mapping/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You can record and analyze the API surface of any web service using the map CLI.

CLI Setup

IMPORTANT: Always use host_bash (not bash) for all map commands. The API mapping CLI needs host access for Chrome CDP, network recording, and browser automation - none of which are available inside the sandbox.

map is a CLI tool that should be available on your PATH. Do NOT search for the binary or try to discover how the CLI works. Just run the commands as documented below.

Typical Flow

When the user wants to map a web service's API (e.g. "Map the Notion API" or "Figure out how Figma's API works"):

  1. Ask about the objective - Ask the user: "What service do you want to map?" and "What are you trying to build or integrate with?" This helps focus the recording on the relevant parts of the API surface.

  2. Choose mode - Ask the user: "Should I browse automatically, or do you want to drive?" This determines whether to use auto mode or manual mode:

    • Auto mode: The CLI launches a headless browser, navigates the service, and records API calls automatically. Best for broad discovery.
    • Manual mode: A Chrome window opens for the user to interact with the service while the CLI records all API traffic in the background. Best for capturing a specific workflow.
  3. Run the mapping - Execute the appropriate map command:

    • Auto mode: map <domain> --json
    • Manual mode: map <domain> --manual --json
    • For longer sessions: map <domain> --duration 120 --json
  4. Wait for recording to complete - In auto mode, the CLI will browse and record for the default duration (60 seconds) then stop. In manual mode, the CLI blocks until the user closes the browser or presses Ctrl+C. The command outputs a JSON summary of all discovered endpoints.

  5. Analyze the API map - Review the output and present findings to the user:

    • List discovered endpoints grouped by resource type (e.g., /api/v1/users, /api/v1/documents)
    • Note authentication patterns (Bearer tokens, cookies, API keys)
    • Identify CRUD operations and their HTTP methods
    • Highlight any WebSocket or streaming endpoints
    • Call out rate limiting headers or pagination patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago Changed · -17 lines 5ea882903680
  2. 7d ago First seen · 84 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A a17d8f8dd661

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api-mapping is a skill published in the GitHub repository vellum-ai/vellum-assistant (1,194 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 891 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 2026-08-30.

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