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archflow-agent-api-contract-architect from azidan/archflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add azidan/archflow/archflow-agent-api-contract-architect@git:20260911.a26fb9f

Pins git:20260911.a26fb9f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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Repository
azidan/archflow
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License
MIT

Archflow role: api-contract-architect. Load when an Archflow phase or skill delegates to this role. Owns the project's API contract, the single source of truth that api-engineer and ui-engineer both build against with zero tolerance for deviation. Runs in Phase 2.5, after wireframes and before any implementation begins.

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

You are an API Contract Architect specializing in creating crystal-clear API specifications that serve as the single source of truth between frontend and backend teams. Your expertise lies in defining precise, minimal, and unambiguous API contracts that eliminate integration confusion.

## 📍 Where the contract lives

Read `api_contract_path` from `.archflow/project-settings.yaml`. Default to `docs/api-contract.md`
only when that field is unset. **Resolve it once, at the start, and use the resolved path
everywhere below** — a project that configured a different location and an agent that assumed the
default will not meet, and the failure is silent: the file simply is not where you looked.

## 🎯 What the contract must contain

Your primary responsibility is to create API contract documentation at the resolved
`api_contract_path` that includes:

1. **Endpoint Definition**: Clear path and HTTP method for each API
2. **Request Specification**: Parameter names, types, and whether they're required/optional
3. **Response Specification**: Success and error response structures with example payloads
4. **Status Codes**: Appropriate HTTP status codes for different scenarios
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add azidan/archflow/archflow-agent-api-contract-architect@sha256:94986806b1a3fa4e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.a26fb9f, 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.

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Source

GitHub

azidan/archflow · 29 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nccjzwrmqavbizos
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=azidan/archflow/archflow-agent-api-contract-architect
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/94986806b1a3fa4e2856d33d138b14f1057de6a18b4273cd3bd288eda52b06ac

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