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api-design-principles from aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills/api-design-principles@git:20260927.806f3e1

Pins git:20260927.806f3e1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills
Path: skills-imported/api-design-principles/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260927.806f3e1, committed Sep 27, 2026
Size: 1,474 bytes
Repository stars: 25
License: MIT

Master REST and GraphQL API design principles to build intuitive, scalable, and maintainable APIs that delight developers and stand the test of time.

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 Principles

Master REST and GraphQL API design principles to build intuitive, scalable, and maintainable APIs that delight developers and stand the test of time.

## Use this skill when

- Designing new REST or GraphQL APIs
- Refactoring existing APIs for better usability
- Establishing API design standards for your team
- Reviewing API specifications before implementation
- Migrating between API paradigms (REST to GraphQL, etc.)
- Creating developer-friendly API documentation
- Optimizing APIs for specific use cases (mobile, third-party integrations)

## Do not use this skill when

- You only need implementation guidance for a specific framework
- You are doing infrastructure-only work without API contracts
- You cannot change or version public interfaces

## Instructions

1. Define consumers, use cases, and constraints.
2. Choose API style and model resources or types.
3. Specify errors, versioning, pagination, and auth strategy.
4. Validate with examples and review for consistency.

Refer to `resources/implementation-playbook.md` for detailed patterns, checklists, and templates.

## Resources
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills/api-design-principles@sha256:8e89a9a6ca860515

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260927.806f3e1, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ukcyzppbvppkgutq.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ukcyzppbvppkgutq)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 27, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260927.806f3e1 latest	2026-09-27	806f3e1	1,474 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 (1474 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

aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills · 25 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ukcyzppbvppkgutq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills/api-design-principles
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8e89a9a6ca86051582fcca5ec26b6057acd652d422e4374ab4403a69c37bd2fa

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