api-design
Designs interfaces that survive their consumers — resource modeling, errors, versioning, pagination, and compatibility. Use this to design a new API, review one before it ships, decide how to version or deprecate, fix an interface consumers keep misusing, or work out whether a change is breaking.
Install / Use
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill api-designInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Data & AnalyticsSupported Platforms
Our assessment of api-design
api-design scores 86/100 on our quality scale, 265th of 422 Data & Analytics skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 1,658 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 12 days ago, so api-design is actively maintained.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
api-design compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than api-design; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| api-design (this skill)by cbrock84 | 86 | 1.7k | 12d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 86.2k | 14d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 74.1k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| Scraplingby D4Vinci | 100 | 84.6k | today | MCP Server |
| crawl4aiby unclecode | 100 | 84.5k | 5d ago | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install api-design?
- Run
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill api-design. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does api-design work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is api-design safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is api-design still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 12 days ago, so api-design is actively maintained.
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From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.