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mdr add secondsky/claude-skills/api-versioning-strategy@git:20260402.75421faPins git:20260402.75421fa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- secondsky/claude-skills
- Path
plugins/api-versioning-strategy/skills/api-versioning-strategy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260402.75421fa, committed Apr 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Dec 24, 2025
- Size
- 2,121 bytes
- Repository stars
- 247
- License
- MIT
Implements API versioning using URL paths, headers, or query parameters with backward compatibility and deprecation strategies. Use when managing multiple API versions, planning breaking changes, or designing migration paths.
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 Versioning Strategy
Choose and implement API versioning approaches with proper deprecation timelines.
## Versioning Methods
| Method | Example | Pros | Cons |
|--------|---------|------|------|
| URL Path | `/api/v1/users` | Clear, cache-friendly | URL clutter |
| Header | `API-Version: 1` | Clean URLs | Hidden, harder to test |
| Query | `?version=1` | Easy to use | Not RESTful |
## URL Path Versioning (Recommended)
```javascript
const v1Router = require('./routes/v1');
const v2Router = require('./routes/v2');
app.use('/api/v1', v1Router);
app.use('/api/v2', v2Router);
```
## Version Adapter Pattern
```javascript
// Transform between versions
const v1ToV2 = (v1Response) => ({
data: {
type: 'user',
id: v1Response.user_id,
attributes: {
name: v1Response.user_name,
email: v1Response.email
}
}
});
```
## Deprecation Headers
```javascript
app.use('/api/v1', (req, res, next) => {
res.setHeader('Deprecation', 'true');
res.setHeader('Sunset', 'Sat, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT');
res.setHeader('Link', '</api/v2>; rel="successor-version"');
next();
});
```
## Safe vs Breaking Changes
**Safe Changes** (no version bump):
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add secondsky/claude-skills/api-versioning-strategy@sha256:f96ed2bf67e58384The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260402.75421fa, 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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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Dec 24, 2025 and Apr 2, 2026, about one every 100 days.
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| git:20260402.75421fa latest | 2026-04-02 | 75421fa | 2,121 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251224.ba827ce | 2025-12-24 | ba827ce | 2,108 B | A | view |
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- 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
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Source
secondsky/claude-skills · 247 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
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