Document api for agents
A repo of skills I use in my current personal workflows. I keep updating as I create new skills
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Use when a user wants to inspect a repository's live API surface and produce agent-facing documentation such as OpenAPI and a concise Markdown guide from routes, handlers/controllers, request schemas, response serializers, middleware, and configuration. Use this when documenting APIs for frontend or agent integration, and keep legacy collections like Bruno untouched unless explicitly requested.
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Document API For Agents
Overview
Use this skill to turn a backend repo into canonical API docs for an AI agent or frontend developer. The default output is a machine-readable OpenAPI spec plus a short Markdown usage guide.
Workflow
- Inspect the live API surface first.
- Read route declarations, handlers/controllers, request validators or schemas, response serializers or presenters, middleware, config, and any existing docs that reflect current behavior.
- Prefer
rgand direct file reads.
- Document only live behavior.
- Include active routes, auth rules, permissions, filters, pagination, multipart uploads, webhooks, bulk operations, and error shapes that the code actually returns.
- Exclude commented-out, deprecated, or inactive routes unless the user explicitly wants them.
- Treat code as the source of truth.
- Trust current handlers/controllers, request schemas, and response serializers over stale examples or old docs.
- Resolve mismatches by matching implementation, not assumptions.
- Write the docs in two layers.
openapi.yamlis the canonical machine-readable contract.README.mdis the human-readable integration guide for the agent and frontend.
- Preserve legacy collections.
- Do not update Bruno collections or similar sample request sets unless the user explicitly asks.
- Mention them only as optional examples if they are still useful.
Documentation Rules
- Prefer OpenAPI 3.1 YAML as the source of truth.
- Document method, path, auth, path params, query params, request bodies, response shapes, and status codes.
- Capture endpoint-specific conventions such as:
- public vs protected access
- role or permission gates
- list filters and pagination parameters
- multipart upload field names
- nested payloads and alternate create paths
- resource wrapper vs raw JSON responses
- Document only what the code supports now.
- If the target docs location is unclear, ask before writing.
Output Shape
Default output package:
docs/api/openapi.yamldocs/api/README.md
Use a different path only if the repository already has a clear documentation convention.
Quality Check
- Verify YAML parses cleanly.
- Cross-check
$reftargets and endpoint coverage. - Confirm the docs answer the integration questions an AI agent would ask:
- How do I authenticate?
- Which endpoints are public?
- What filters and payloads does each endpoint accept?
- What shape does each endpoint return?
- What permission gates or ownership rules apply?