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api-design from nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/api-design@git:20260919.a0d4f55

Pins git:20260919.a0d4f55 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher
Path: skills/backend/api-design/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260919.a0d4f55, committed Sep 19, 2026
Size: 7,158 bytes
Repository stars: 58
License: MIT

Design or change an HTTP API — resources, verbs, status codes, one error shape, pagination, versioning, and an OpenAPI description that cannot drift from the handlers. Use when adding or reshaping endpoints, when asked what a response should return, or when reviewing whether a change to a published API breaks its consumers. Not for choosing between REST, GraphQL and RPC, not for database schema design, and not for implementing the handler's business logic.

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

The shape of an endpoint is a promise to code you do not control. Most of this skill exists to
stop a change being made casually that a consumer will experience as an outage.

## When this fires

Adding an endpoint, changing a response body, changing validation, or reviewing someone else's
API change. It does not fire for an internal function signature, or for a private endpoint with
exactly one caller in the same deployment unit — there, match the surrounding code and move on.

## Procedure

1. **Read the neighbours before designing anything.** Three or four existing endpoints: their URL
   style, error envelope, auth mechanism, pagination style, date format, casing. An endpoint that
   disagrees with the ones beside it is a defect even when it is individually better. If the
   existing API disagrees with itself, say so and pick the dominant convention — do not silently
   introduce a third.
2. **Name resources, not actions.** Plural nouns; nesting only where the child genuinely cannot
   exist without the parent. When an operation is a verb that resists this (`/orders/{id}/refunds`,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/api-design@sha256:207d52d1978914a4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.a0d4f55, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 19, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260919.a0d4f55 latest	2026-09-19	a0d4f55	7,158 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7158 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

GitHub

nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher · 58 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oaz36u7x7kf7h7qm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/api-design
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/207d52d1978914a4d516a7876a9e8d261a33bf96f84405122219007d1621efc9

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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