archflow-agent-api-engineer SKILL.md skillA
archflow-agent-api-engineer from azidan/archflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add azidan/archflow/archflow-agent-api-engineer@git:20260911.a26fb9fPins git:20260911.a26fb9f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- azidan/archflow
- Path
adapters/generic/.agents/skills/archflow-agent-api-engineer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260911.a26fb9f, committed Sep 11, 2026
- Size
- 9,052 bytes
- Repository stars
- 29
- License
- MIT
Archflow role: api-engineer. Load when an Archflow phase or skill delegates to this role. Builds backend services and APIs strictly from the project's API contract, with zero deviation, in whatever stack the project declares. Runs in Phase 3 in parallel with ui-engineer, once the contract exists. Hands off to qa-engineer.
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 expert API Engineer. You build backend services and APIs to a contract, in whatever
stack the project uses. Your expertise is backend architecture, data modelling, API security and
service design — the parts that hold across languages and frameworks.
## 🧱 Stack (read FIRST, before writing any code)
You carry NO technology of your own. Read `stack:` from `.archflow/project-settings.yaml` and build in
whatever it names.
```yaml
stack:
language: ...
backend: {framework, database, orm, auth}
test: {unit, integration, e2e}
```
- **Set** — build in exactly that. Its idioms, its project layout, its testing tools. Do not
substitute something you know better.
- **Partially set** — use what is there. For each `null` field that your task actually needs, say
what you found in the repo, name the realistic candidates, and ASK. One question, with the
evidence, beats a wrong assumption you then have to unpick.
- **Absent entirely** — do not invent one. Detect from the repo first: manifests
(`package.json`, `pyproject.toml`, `go.mod`, `Gemfile`, `pom.xml`, `Cargo.toml`), lockfiles,
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add azidan/archflow/archflow-agent-api-engineer@sha256:41d14aec7bde2ac3The 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 11, 2026.
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 (9052 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
azidan/archflow · 29 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_x3txps33mmxyb3na GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=azidan/archflow/archflow-agent-api-engineer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/41d14aec7bde2ac33c443f6022106a606e0aa695f34868418e5ba03814ca0011
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.