Reverse Engineering Api
Provides API guidance and assistance for agent workflows.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add reverse-engineering-api npx -- -y @trustedskills/reverse-engineering-api
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"reverse-engineering-api": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/reverse-engineering-api"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill allows an AI agent to analyze and understand the functionality of APIs without formal documentation. It can identify endpoints, request parameters, and response structures through observation and experimentation. The goal is to enable interaction with undocumented or poorly documented services by reverse engineering their behavior.
When to use it
- Interacting with legacy systems: When working with older applications that lack current API documentation.
- Automating tasks on websites without APIs: Automate workflows where there's no official API, but web interactions are necessary.
- Understanding undocumented features: Discover hidden or experimental functionality within a service.
- Debugging integration issues: Investigate how different systems interact when formal specifications are unavailable.
Key capabilities
- API endpoint discovery
- Request parameter identification
- Response structure analysis
- Behavioral pattern recognition
Example prompts
- "Can you figure out how to get the current weather for London using this website?"
- "I need to automate a process on this site. Can you identify the API calls needed to achieve that?"
- "Analyze these network requests and describe what data is being exchanged."
Tips & gotchas
The skill's effectiveness depends heavily on the complexity of the API and the availability of observable behavior. It may require multiple iterations and careful observation to fully understand an API’s functionality.
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