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Api Design Expert

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personamanagmentlayer·vlatest·backend·Apache-2.0

Helps with API, design as part of developing backend services and APIs workflows.

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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill api-design-expert -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

personamanagmentlayer

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Live repository

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

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    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned personamanagmentlayer/pcl at 79ccaa9820.

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Commit
79ccaa9820
Manifest
stdlib/api/api-design-expert/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 480 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill empowers AI agents to generate robust, production-ready API specifications and code scaffolds. It focuses on creating clear documentation and structural blueprints for backend services based on user requirements.

When to use it

  • You need to define a new REST or GraphQL endpoint structure before writing implementation code.
  • Your team requires standardized OpenAPI (Swagger) or Postman collection formats for testing.
  • You are prototyping a service and need immediate, syntactically correct boilerplate code.
  • You want to ensure consistent naming conventions and error handling patterns across your backend.

Key capabilities

  • Generates comprehensive API documentation in standard formats like OpenAPI/Swagger.
  • Creates functional code scaffolds for common backend languages and frameworks.
  • Designs logical endpoint hierarchies and resource relationships.
  • Defines request/response schemas, data types, and validation rules.

Example prompts

  • "Design a REST API specification for a user authentication service including login, logout, and profile endpoints."
  • "Generate an OpenAPI 3.0 document for a product inventory system with CRUD operations."
  • "Create a Python FastAPI scaffold for a payment processing gateway with proper error handling."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure you provide specific context about your preferred technology stack (e.g., Node.js, Go) and security requirements to get relevant output. This skill generates structural designs; it does not automatically connect to existing databases or handle live network traffic.