Topic · Backend & APIs
Best REST APIs skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Designs REST and GraphQL APIs from resource modeling to an OpenAPI 3.1 contract, with versioning, pagination and RFC 7807 error handling. | Jeffallan/ | 12k | 2 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 2 | Interact with the Paperclip control plane API for task coordination and governance. | paperclipai/ | 98k | — | ~9.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Build production-ready Node.js backend services with Express/Fastify, implementing middleware patterns, error handling, authentication, database integration, and API design best practices. | ever-works/ | 158 | 17 repos | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| 4 | Turns an OpenAPI or Swagger spec into an MCP server with the mcp-use TypeScript SDK, mapping each operation to a tool, wiring auth, testing and deploying. | mcp-use/ | 11k | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 5 | 5.Use Yaak A skill your agent uses when the user mentions Yaak, a Yaak workspace, or the yaak command, or asks to call, hit, or smoke test HTTP/REST endpoints, save or organize API requests for reuse or manual… | mountain-loop/ | 19k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 6 | A skill your agent uses when adding authentication, handling user input, working with secrets, creating API endpoints, or implementing payment/sensitive features. | jewbetcha/ | 116 | 17 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 7 | Covers the RuView `wifi-densepose` command line binary, its Axum REST API and the WebAssembly builds for browsers and ESP32, for embedding or scripting RuView. | ruvnet/ | 97k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 8 | Search Zhihu for content using the searchv3 API. An agent skill from itwanger/toBeBetterJavaer. | itwanger/ | 18k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 9 | Use whenever asked to add, create, or scaffold a CRUD endpoint, router, or entity in this repo's server (create/list/get/update/delete handlers, new… | fosrl/ | 23k | — | ~461 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 10 | Scrape and extract public data from 27+ social media platforms using the ScrapeCreators REST API. | ScrapeCreators/ | 3.3k | 1 repo | ~4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 11 | Reviews or designs an HTTP/JSON API's endpoints, auth, pagination, versioning and deprecations, guarding against inventing a bespoke interface or silently breaking consumers. | AmazingAng/ | 749 | 1 repo | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 12 | Retrieves public OKX cryptocurrency market data such as spot prices, candlesticks, funding rates and open interest through the OKX V5 REST API, with no authentication. | HKUDS/ | 35k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 13 | Build or review Langfuse backend code. An agent skill from langfuse/langfuse. | langfuse/ | 35k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 14 | 14.Fastcrud A skill your agent uses when building or modifying CRUD endpoints with FastCRUD (the fastcrud PyPI package) in a FastAPI project — covers FastCRUD, crudrouter, EndpointCreator, FilterConfig… | benavlabs/ | 1.6k | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 13 days ago |
| 15 | A skill your agent uses when adding, moving, or wiring an internal REST endpoint in Trilium (a new /api/ route) — choosing between a core-shared handler (packages/trilium-core/src/routes/index.ts… | TriliumNext/ | 38k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 16 | 16.Legba A skill your agent uses when the user wants to brute-force credentials, spray passwords, or enumerate services/subdomains against any network protocol (HTTP, SSH, FTP, SMB, RDP, databases, mail… | evilsocket/ | 1.9k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 17 | Call any REST API dynamically. An agent skill from NVIDIA/SkillEvaluator. | NVIDIA/ | 544 | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 18 | Set up and migrate to @data-client/rest for REST APIs. An agent skill from reactive/data-client. | reactive/ | 2k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 19 | Manages AI provider connections, API keys, OAuth flows and connection tests through OmniRoute's REST API across its 327-provider catalog. | diegosouzapw/ | 74k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 20 | 20.Dr Jskill Creates Java + Spring Boot projects: Web applications, full-stack apps with Vue.js or Angular or React or vanilla JS, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, and Docker. | jdubois/ | 342 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 8 days ago |
| 21 | Generate hybrid cloud tests for the Sentry codebase. An agent skill from getsentry/sentry. | getsentry/ | 45k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 22 | Design, implement, and verify behavior changes in App-Store-Connect-CLI. | rorkai/ | 7.7k | — | ~818 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 23 | 23.Add Feature Add a vertical-slice feature (command/query + handler + validator + endpoint) to an existing FSH module. | fullstackhero/ | 6.8k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 24 | 24.API Gateway AWS API Gateway for REST and HTTP API management. An agent skill from itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills. | itsmostafa/ | 1.2k | 1 repo | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 25 | Create, inspect, and safely update project-scoped ReachAI Agents; edit and publish Supervisor config drafts; discover published bindable Skills; and attach or detach exact Skill versions through the… | w8123/ | 830 | 1 repo | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 26 | 26.Dormice Operate Dormice self-hosted agent sandboxes — acquire a sandbox, run commands, move files, tune lifecycle policy — through the official E2B SDKs, the native HTTP API and SDK, or the dor CLI. | BitMiracle-AI/ | 1.4k | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 27 | 27.Mintlify API Interact with the Mintlify REST API to manage deployments, trigger builds, and query documentation site metadata programmatically. | macro-inc/ | 4.6k | 2 repos | ~333 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 28 | 28.Cello Read the status of a Hyperledger Cello deployment through its REST API. | hyperledger-cello/ | 920 | — | ~443 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 29 | This skill should be used when the user asks to "explore the codebase", "understand the architecture", "what functions exist", "show me the structure", "how is the code organized", "find functions… | DmNote-App/ | 2.4k | — | ~576 | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| 30 | 30.Xiaoai Tts Control Xiaoai speaker via OpenXiaoAI Voice API for high-quality TTS playback. | coderzc/ | 386 | — | ~749 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 13 days ago |
| 31 | Edit, validate, debug, publish, and inspect ReachAI Workflow drafts through the Workflow AI Coding REST API. | w8123/ | 830 | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 32 | CloudBase official HTTP API client guide. An agent skill from TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-Toolkit. | TencentCloudBase/ | 1.1k | 3 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 33 | Official skill for twitterapi.io — query Twitter/X data (tweets, profiles, followers, advanced search, trends, spaces, communities, lists) and perform authenticated actions (post, reply, like… | kaitoInfra/ | 449 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 34 | Reviews REST API design for correct HTTP verbs, versioning, DTO use, consistent responses and backward compatibility before an API change ships. | decebals/ | 750 | 1 repo | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 35 | 35.Store Submit Publish a SoloMD release to the stores that have no usable submission API — Google Play Console and Microsoft Partner Center — by driving them through the local Unzoo Browser REST API. | zhitongblog/ | 1.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 36 | 36.Databuddy Integrate Databuddy analytics using the SDK, REST API, or MCP. | databuddy-analytics/ | 1.2k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 37 | A skill your agent uses when investigating or improving WordPress performance (backend-only agent): profiling and measurement (WP-CLI profile/doctor, Server-Timing, Query Monitor via REST headers)… | gambitph/ | 350 | 3 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 38 | This skill should be used when user asks to "query OpenObserve", "create OpenObserve dashboard", "edit OpenObserve panel", "fetch OpenObserve logs", "run OpenObserve search", "list OpenObserve… | fcakyon/ | 1.2k | 1 repo | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 39 | Review and validate claims using counter-hypothesis testing. | bradygaster/ | 3.3k | — | ~503 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 40 | Builds Laravel 10+ applications with Eloquent models, Sanctum authentication, Horizon queues, API resources and Livewire components, tested with Pest or PHPUnit. | Jeffallan/ | 12k | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 41 | 41.Io Figma Guides work on the Figma I/O package (@grida/io-figma, packages/grida-canvas-io-figma/). | gridaco/ | 2.7k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 42 | Generate API endpoint code and documentation from specifications. | huangjia2019/ | 1.1k | 1 repo | ~379 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 43 | 43.Codeman Drive Codeman, the session manager this agent is running inside, over its HTTP API: list sessions, start worker sessions, send them prompts, block until they finish (wait / wait-output /… | Ark0N/ | 784 | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 44 | 44.Pullmd Read any web page, document, or YouTube video as clean Markdown using PullMD. | AeternaLabsHQ/ | 486 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 16 days ago |
| 45 | 45.Openclaw Rpa Record browser, Excel, Word & API actions once — replay without the LLM: faster, cheaper, no hallucinations. | laziobird/ | 229 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 mo ago |
| 46 | Creates a Chamilo color theme with a logo from a website's branding or from a logo file's dominant colors, entirely through the Chamilo REST API. | chamilo/ | 1k | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 47 | 47.Flvx API Operate FLVX traffic forwarding management system via REST API. | Sagit-chu/ | 281 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| 48 | Guides building Grails web applications and REST APIs with GORM, controllers, services, views, plugins and Spock and Geb testing. | apache/ | 2.9k | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best REST APIs skill?
API Designer from Jeffallan/claude-skills ranks first of the 783 REST APIs skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 12k GitHub stars, 2 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Paperclip and Nodejs Backend Patterns.
Which REST APIs skills are official?
51 of the 783 REST APIs skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: API Caller, Hybrid Cloud Test Gen, MCP Apps Builder, Vss Deploy Detection Tracking 2D, Kql Validator and 46 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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