GraphQL

by nimadorostkar

GraphQL is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by nimadorostkar in Claude-Skills-collection.

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Install GraphQL

Copy GraphQL 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/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection/tree/main/skills/backend/graphql ~/.claude/skills/graphql

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/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/backend/graphql/SKILL.md in nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/graphql
Collection: One of 50 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What GraphQL does

GraphQL helps design and operate GraphQL APIs with schema modeling, resolver batching, query cost limits, error handling, and federation. Use it when building public or internal graphs and diagnosing slow or expensive queries.

GraphQL is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. GraphQL comes from a repository tagged ai, claude, claude-skills and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Designing a GraphQL schema from scratch.
Diagnosing slow queries or N+1 resolver behavior.
Protecting a public GraphQL endpoint from expensive queries.
Splitting a schema across services with federation.

Capabilities

Schema design: types, interfaces, unions, connections, nullability.
Resolver architecture and DataLoader batching.
Query cost analysis, depth limiting, and persisted queries.
Error handling that distinguishes partial failures from total ones.
Federation and schema composition.

Inputs

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

Frequently asked about GraphQL

What else does nimadorostkar publish alongside GraphQL?
GraphQL is one of 50 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Design, Agent Design and Agent Instructions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way GraphQL does, and is maintained by nimadorostkar in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection page.
How does GraphQL compare to other AI Engineering skills?
GraphQL ranks #2339 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 GraphQL against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.