api-design-principles alternatives

3 skills from other authors that do a similar job to api-design-principles by wshobson. The most recently updated is api-and-interface-design (Sep 20, 2026).

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Skill Stars License Agents Last update Category Install
api-design-principles
by wshobson · this skill
39,066 MIT Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Antigravity Aug 24, 2026 Backend Plugin marketplace
api-design-reviewer
by alirezarezvani
24,617 MIT Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI Aug 17, 2026 Backend Plugin marketplace
api-and-interface-design
by addyosmani
97,992 MIT Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity Sep 20, 2026 Backend Plugin marketplace
api-designer
by Jeffallan
11,060 MIT Claude Code Aug 7, 2026 Backend Plugin marketplace

Alternatives are matched on overlapping names, descriptions, tags and SKILL.md sections, weighted by how rare each term is across the catalog. Data refreshed weekly from GitHub.

The alternatives

Comprehensive REST API design review with automated linting, breaking-change detection, and design scorecards. Catches inconsistent conventions, missing versioning, and design smells before APIs ship. Use when reviewing a PR that adds or changes API endpoints, auditing an existing API for v2 migration, or establishing API standards for a team.

Claude CodeCodexCursor+1
25k GitHub stars MIT Updated Aug 17, 2026 Free

Guides stable API and interface design. Use when designing APIs, module boundaries, or any public interface. Use when creating REST or GraphQL endpoints, defining type contracts between modules, or establishing boundaries between frontend and backend.

🔥 TrendingActive Claude CodeCodexCursor+1
98k GitHub stars MIT Updated Sep 20, 2026 Free

Use when designing REST or GraphQL APIs, creating OpenAPI specifications, or planning API architecture. Invoke for resource modeling, versioning strategies, pagination patterns, error handling standards.

Claude Code
11k GitHub stars MIT Updated Aug 7, 2026 Free

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best alternatives to api-design-principles?
The closest matches in the catalog are api-design-reviewer by alirezarezvani, api-and-interface-design by addyosmani, api-designer by Jeffallan. They were picked because their names, descriptions, tags and SKILL.md sections overlap most with api-design-principles’s, and they come from other repositories.
Which api-design-principles alternative is most popular?
api-and-interface-design by addyosmani has the most GitHub stars of the alternatives listed here (97,992). Stars belong to the whole repository, so compare how many skills each repository contains too.
Are these alternatives free?
Yes. All of them are free to install from GitHub, and 3 of the 3 alternatives declare a recognized open-source license.