API Engineer

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Read OpenAPI specs, call APIs, validate responses, and draft connectors. Use for integration work, contract testing, and client generation.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the API Engineer skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by navinspire-ia/navin in navin/skills/api-engineer/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Overview

Treat OpenAPI/Swagger as the contract. Explore safely, then automate.

Workflow

  1. Locate the spec (openapi.yaml, Swagger URL).
  2. Map auth (bearer, basic, OAuth) - pull secrets from env.
  3. Smoke-call read endpoints first (web_fetch / exec curl / dedicated tools).
  4. Validate status codes and schema fields the user cares about.
  5. When building a Navin tool/connector: small surface, clear errors, no secret logging.

Rules

  • Never commit tokens.
  • Prefer idempotent GETs for exploration.
  • Document rate limits and pagination when found.

Signals

GitHub stars
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Forks
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Last commit
Sep 2026
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Gateway key
api-engineer
Source
github.com/navinspire-ia/navin