API Reference Documentation

API Reference Documentation is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by secondsky in claude-skills.

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Install API Reference Documentation

Copy API Reference Documentation 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/secondsky/claude-skills/tree/main/plugins/api-reference-documentation/skills/api-reference-documentation ~/.claude/skills/api-reference-documentation

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/secondsky/claude-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/api-reference-documentation/skills/api-reference-documentation/SKILL.md in secondsky/claude-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/api-reference-documentation
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1144 skills

What API Reference Documentation does

API Reference Documentation creates developer-facing API docs from OpenAPI specs, including endpoints, auth, errors, and examples. Use it for REST API references, SDK docs, and developer portals.

API Reference Documentation is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. API Reference Documentation comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-commands, claude-code-hooks, claude-code-plugin and claude-code-plugins.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

API Reference Documentation

Create comprehensive API documentation for developer integration.

OpenAPI 3.0 Specification

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

Frequently asked about API Reference Documentation

What else does secondsky publish alongside API Reference Documentation?
API Reference Documentation is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from secondsky/claude-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Authentication, API Changelog & Versioning and API Contract Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way API Reference Documentation does, and is maintained by secondsky in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the secondsky/claude-skills page.
How does API Reference Documentation compare to other Writing skills?
API Reference Documentation ranks #952 by stars among the 1144 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. 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 Reference Documentation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.