API Patterns

API Patterns is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by vibeeval in vibecosystem.

528 stars44 forkson vibeeval/vibecosystemAdded 2026/08/26Repository updated 2026/08/08

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Install API Patterns

Copy API 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/vibeeval/vibecosystem/tree/main/skills/api-patterns ~/.claude/skills/api-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/vibeeval/vibecosystem.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/api-patterns/SKILL.md in vibeeval/vibecosystem
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/api-patterns
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What API Patterns does

API Patterns covers REST and GraphQL design, versioning, validation, pagination, error responses, and contract testing. Use it when building consistent APIs that need stable schemas and predictable behavior.

API Patterns is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. API Patterns comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-software-team, anthropic, automation and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Frequently asked about API Patterns

What else does vibeeval publish alongside API Patterns?
API Patterns is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from vibeeval/vibecosystem, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Slop Cleaner, API Versioning Patterns and AWS Patterns. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way API Patterns does, and is maintained by vibeeval in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the vibeeval/vibecosystem page.
How does API Patterns compare to other AI Engineering skills?
API Patterns ranks #2110 by stars among the 2451 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 Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.