API Design Assistant

by ArabelaTso

API Design Assistant is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ArabelaTso in Skills-4-SE.

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Install API Design Assistant

Copy API Design Assistant 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/ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE/tree/main/skills/api-design-assistant ~/.claude/skills/api-design-assistant

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/ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/api-design-assistant/SKILL.md in ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/api-design-assistant
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2631 skills

What API Design Assistant does

API Design Assistant helps design and review REST APIs by suggesting endpoints, parameters, schemas, authentication, pagination, and versioning. It is used for API planning, documentation, OpenAPI specs, and implementation guidance.

API Design Assistant is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. API Design Assistant comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, claude-skills, metaprogramming and software-development.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

What is the domain/purpose of the API?
What resources need to be exposed? (users, products, orders, etc.)
What operations are needed? (create, read, update, delete, custom actions)
Who are the consumers? (web app, mobile app, third-party integrations)
Are there specific requirements? (authentication, rate limiting, versioning)

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

Commands API Design Assistant provides

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

/users
/products
/orders
/user
/events
/posts

Frequently asked about API Design Assistant

What else does ArabelaTso publish alongside API Design Assistant?
API Design Assistant is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ACSL Annotation Assistant, API Documentation Generator and Abstract Domain Explorer. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way API Design Assistant does, and is maintained by ArabelaTso in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE page.
How does API Design Assistant compare to other AI Engineering skills?
API Design Assistant ranks #2331 by stars among the 2631 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 Assistant against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.