Agent skills for API development in Claude Code
348 agent skills for API development in the catalog list Claude Code as a supported host. These are the 15 that rank highest, ordered by adoption, freshness and documentation. fsi-foundation-openapi, api-tester and api-gateway-backend-security-and-rate-limiting lead the list. Claude Code reads them from .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md in the project, or ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ for every project. A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file; Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description. Every listing links to its source and shows a freshness grade.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
How to install in Claude Code
npx skills add <owner>/<repo> --skill <name> -a claude-code
Where it goes: .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md in the project, or ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ for every project.
The host's docs describe copying a folder with a SKILL.md into a skills directory; the npx skills command is a third-party shortcut for the same thing.
Each listing page has the exact command for that listing.
Top 15 of 348
- 1fsi-foundation-openapi
aws-jp-fsi-saOfficial
Reference architecture and CDK samples for building financial Open API (オープンAPI) workloads on AWS, from the "BLEA for FSI / Financial Reference Architecture…
- Published by the vendor
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT-0)
★ 15Last active Oct 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2api-tester
laolaoshiren
依据真实 OpenAPI、路由实现和现有测试生成并验证 API 测试。用于用户要求测试接口、补集成测试、验证 API 契约、生成回归用例或排查接口兼容性时;区分“生成测试”和“执行请求”的授权,不猜测状态码、响应结构或 SLA,不在未确认环境中发送写请求。
- Open source (MIT)
★ 893Last active Jul 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 3api-gateway-backend-security-and-rate-limiting
googleOfficial
Secures and rate limits backend services behind Google Cloud API Gateway across OpenAPI 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0.x API configurations, including MCP-enabled…
- Published by the vendor
- Repository has 21.5K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 21.5KLast active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4api-gateway-mcp-server
googleOfficial
Configures Google Cloud API Gateway to act as a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (Public Preview) that exposes REST APIs as agent tools over HTTP…
- Published by the vendor
- Repository has 21.5K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 21.5KLast active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5code-documenter
https://github.com/Jeffallan
Generates, formats, and validates technical documentation — including docstrings, OpenAPI/Swagger specs, JSDoc annotations, doc portals, and user guides.
- Repository has 12K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 12KLast active Oct 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6api-designer
https://github.com/Jeffallan
Use when designing REST or GraphQL APIs, creating OpenAPI specifications, or planning API architecture.
- Repository has 12K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 12KLast active Oct 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7backend-development
MoizIbnYousaf
Backend API design, database architecture, microservices patterns, and test-driven development.
- Repository has 1.2K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 1.2KLast active May 3, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 8aohp-uda
aohp-os
Generate personalized HTML apps via UDAGen on AOHP — idea-only or with structured input (requirements, OpenAPI, schemas).
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 156Last active Jun 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 9go-api-design
eduardo-sl
HTTP/REST API design for Go services: handlers, ServeMux routing, middleware, request validation, pagination, idempotency, health checks, error responses, and…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 82Last active Oct 14, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10api-gateway
maton
API gateway for calling third-party APIs with managed OAuth connections, provided by Maton (https://maton.ai).
- Repository has 2.2K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 2.2KLast active Jul 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 11api-patterns
sharkrebel
API design principles: RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC, versioning, pagination, error format.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Ships helper scripts
- For Python
★ 73Last active Oct 2, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12t-design
timzaak
Generate technical design documents including API design, database schema, and implementation details for a feature.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 97Last active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 13api-design-principles
sickn33
Master REST and GraphQL API design principles to build intuitive, scalable, and maintainable APIs that delight developers and stand the test of time.
- Largest repository here (48,428 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 48.4KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 14route-to-openapi
zebbern
Generates RESTful API documentation (OpenAPI 3.0 / Swagger spec) by scanning route definitions in code for Flask, FastAPI, Express, Gin, and other frameworks.
- Repository has 4.7K stars
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 4.7KLast active May 31, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 15mixins
finom
Vovk.ts OpenAPI mixins — importing third-party OpenAPI 3.x schemas as typed client modules that share the same call signature as native Vovk RPC modules.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 54Last active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet
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