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.
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).
Side-by-side comparison
| 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
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.
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.
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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.