API Design Patterns

by rohitg00

API Design Patterns is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by rohitg00 in awesome-claude-code-toolkit.

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Install API Design Patterns

Copy API Design Patterns 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/rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit/tree/main/skills/api-design-patterns ~/.claude/skills/api-design-patterns

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/rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit.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-patterns/SKILL.md in rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/api-design-patterns
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What API Design Patterns does

API Design Patterns provides guidelines for designing REST APIs, including resource naming, HTTP methods, status codes, pagination, versioning, and OpenAPI spec generation. Use it when building or reviewing API endpoints to ensure consistency and best practices.

API Design Patterns is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. API Design Patterns comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, claudecode, claudecode-hooks and plugins.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

API Design Patterns

Resource Naming

Use plural nouns: /users, /orders, /products
Nest for relationships: /users/{id}/orders
Max nesting depth: 2 levels. Beyond that, use query params or top-level resources
Use kebab-case: /user-profiles, not /userProfiles
Never put verbs in URLs: /users/{id}/activate is wrong, use POST /users/{id}/activation

HTTP Methods

Method	Purpose	Idempotent	Request Body	Success Code
GET	Read resource(s)	Yes	No	200
POST	Create resource	No	Yes	201
PUT	Full replace	Yes	Yes	200
PATCH	Partial update	No	Yes	200
DELETE	Remove resource	Yes	No	204

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

Commands API Design Patterns provides

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

/users
/orders
/products
/user-profiles

Frequently asked about API Design Patterns

What else does rohitg00 publish alongside API Design Patterns?
API Design Patterns is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWS Cloud Patterns, Accessibility and AgentKit SEO. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way API Design Patterns does, and is maintained by rohitg00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit page.
How does API Design Patterns compare to other Quality skills?
API Design Patterns ranks #504 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.