API Gen — Development skill for Claude Code
Generate REST API endpoints with routes, validation, error handling, and tests.
How to install API Gen
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/halflength-ampleness75-claude-code-recipes-api-gen/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/halflength-ampleness75-claude-code-recipes-api-gen && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/halflength-ampleness75/claude-code-recipes/HEAD/commands/api-gen.md -o ~/.claude/skills/halflength-ampleness75-claude-code-recipes-api-gen/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What API Gen does
model: sonnet description: Generate REST API endpoints with routes, validation, error handling, and tests
Generate production-quality REST API endpoints from a description provided in `$ARGUMENTS`.
Step 1 — Understand the Requirements
Parse `$ARGUMENTS` to determine:
- Resource name (e.g., "users", "products", "orders")
- Operations needed (CRUD by default, or specific operations if stated)
- Fields and types (if specified, otherwise infer reasonable defaults)
- **Relat
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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