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api-surface-minimalism from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-surface-minimalism@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
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skills/code-quality/api-surface-minimalism/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
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- 2,585 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Keep the public API small by defaulting to private visibility and retiring symbols through deprecation before deletion. Use when designing a module's exports or reviewing what a package exposes to callers.
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 surface minimalism Every exported symbol is a promise you maintain until you break it, and callers bind to whatever you expose whether or not you meant them to. A wide surface is expensive forever: it constrains refactors, multiplies test burden, and turns internal details into contracts. The method is to expose the minimum callers need and to withdraw capability on a schedule, never by surprise. ## Method 1. **Default every symbol to private.** Start at the language's tightest visibility: `private`, an unexported lowercase name in Go, no `__all__` entry in Python. Widen only when a concrete caller needs it. Export on demand. 2. **Publish one entry point per module.** Funnel access through a single index or facade so internal file structure stays free to change. Callers importing deep paths like `pkg/internal/impl/thing` freeze your layout in place. 3. **Prefer functions over exposed data.** Return a value or accessor instead of an exported mutable object or field. An exported field is a two-way contract; a getter lets you change the representation behind it later. 4. **Gate new surface behind its own review.** Treat "add to public API" as a …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-surface-minimalism@sha256:3162a5cd951594daThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, 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
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
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