api-design-standards

api-design-standards is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Vimalk0703/shipworthy. It costs 32 tokens per session (431 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of conventions for designing REST APIs, which are web interfaces that applications use to exchange data. It covers URLs, HTTP methods, status codes, errors, pagination, and typed request and response data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing endpoints, response formats, pagination, versioning, and API documentation.
Why use it?
It helps keep an API predictable for the people and programs that use it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the shipworthy plugin — 66 skills, 7 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vimalk0703/shipworthy/api-design-standards
Any agent
npx skills add Vimalk0703/shipworthy --skill api-design-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vimalk0703/shipworthy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install shipworthy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 7 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 431 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00032 $0.00431
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6b736cd0e2df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-design-standards 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 5d 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/architecture/api-design-standards/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

API Design Standards

URL Conventions

  • Resources are plural nouns: /users, /orders, /products
  • Nested for relationships: /users/:id/orders
  • Lowercase, hyphen-separated: /order-items not /orderItems
  • No trailing slashes

HTTP Methods

Method Purpose Idempotent Body
GET Read Yes No
POST Create No Yes
PUT Full replace Yes Yes
PATCH Partial update Yes Yes
DELETE Remove Yes No

Status Codes

  • 200 OK, 201 Created, 204 No Content
  • 400 Bad Request, 401 Unauthorized, 403 Forbidden, 404 Not Found, 409 Conflict, 422 Unprocessable, 429 Rate Limited
  • 500 Internal Error, 503 Unavailable

Error Response Format (consistent across ALL endpoints)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Email address is invalid",
    "details": [{ "field": "email", "message": "Must be a valid email" }]
  }
}

Pagination

GET /users?page=1&limit=20

Response: { "data": [...], "pagination": { "total": 150, "page": 1, "limit": 20, "hasMore": true } }

Requirements

  • Every endpoint MUST have request and response types defined
  • Choose one versioning strategy per project (/api/v1/ or header-based)
  • Keep API documentation in sync with code
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. 5d ago First seen · 51 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 6b736cd0e2df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-design-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vimalk0703/shipworthy (7 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 431 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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