awesome-api-design SKILL.md skillA
awesome-api-design from khasky/awesome-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-api-design@git:20261018.a4259a5Pins git:20261018.a4259a5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- khasky/awesome-agent-skills
- Path
skills/awesome-api-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261018.a4259a5, committed Oct 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 2, 2026
- Size
- 8,823 bytes
- Repository stars
- 30
- License
- MIT
Designs or reviews an HTTP API's shape before code: resources, versioning, pagination, idempotency, filtering. Use when asked to design an API or an endpoint.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# API Design Shape an HTTP API so its consumers can build against it for years without a breaking surprise. The contract is the product: URLs, methods, payloads, errors, and evolution rules are decided here, deliberately — everything left implicit becomes an accidental contract the first client depends on. ## When to Activate - "Design the API for X", "review this API design / OpenAPI spec", "how should we version / paginate / handle retries". - A design doc needs its API section made concrete (awesome-design-doc hands off here). - A new endpoint is being added to an existing API and must match its conventions. Do not activate to define the error envelope's fields or retry classification (awesome-error-standards owns that contract) or to audit implemented handlers for vulnerabilities (awesome-security-audit). ## Work Process …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-api-design@sha256:9452d325af6e6aceThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.a4259a5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3l76biqi2ifiqpdx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026, about one every 11 days.
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| git:20261018.a4259a5 latest | 2026-10-18 | a4259a5 | 8,823 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.3b37a6b | 2026-10-10 | 3b37a6b | 8,830 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.eca990b | 2026-09-25 | eca990b | 6,921 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.d850440 | 2026-09-25 | d850440 | 7,066 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.ad72ad4 | 2026-09-10 | ad72ad4 | 7,323 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.cad2027 | 2026-09-05 | cad2027 | 7,363 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.a220546 | 2026-08-02 | a220546 | 7,119 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.7f75e7d | 2026-08-02 | 7f75e7d | 6,267 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8823 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
khasky/awesome-agent-skills · 30 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3l76biqi2ifiqpdx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-api-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9452d325af6e6ace03c3e8d03d5521c76cff0d6c7e76739603da95dda1e6048f
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