API Design

API Design is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by yonatangross in orchestkit.

225 stars24 forkson yonatangross/orchestkitAdded 2026/09/03Repository updated 2026/09/02

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Install API Design

Copy API Design into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit/tree/main/src/skills/api-design ~/.claude/skills/api-design

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: src/skills/api-design/SKILL.md in yonatangross/orchestkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/api-design
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2793 skills

What API Design does

API Design covers REST and GraphQL contract design, versioning schemes, RFC 9457 Problem Details, and OpenAPI specs. Use it when defining endpoint shapes, deprecation windows, or standardizing error responses across services.

API Design is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. API Design comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, agents, ai-agents, ai-development and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

API Design

Comprehensive API design patterns covering REST/GraphQL framework design, versioning strategies, and RFC 9457 error handling. Each category has individual rule files in rules/ loaded on-demand.

Quick Reference

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands API Design provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about API Design

What else does yonatangross publish alongside API Design?
API Design is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from yonatangross/orchestkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI UI Generation, Accessibility and Activation Audit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way API Design does, and is maintained by yonatangross in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the yonatangross/orchestkit page.
How does API Design compare to other AI Engineering skills?
API Design ranks #2527 by stars among the 2793 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of API Design against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.