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API Documentation Writer

onewave-ai/api-documentation-writer

Generate comprehensive API documentation including endpoint descriptions, request/response examples, authentication guides, error codes, and SDKs. Creates OpenAPI/Swagger specs, REST API docs, and developer-friendly reference materials. Use when users need to document APIs, create technical references, or write developer documentation.

2k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
4
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
235
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill api-documentation-writer

The instruction itself

4 sections, as written by the author

API Documentation Writer

Generate comprehensive, developer-friendly API documentation.

Contents

  • references/documentation-structure.md — every section to cover (overview, auth, endpoints, errors, rate limits, SDKs, webhooks, GraphQL)
  • references/output-template.md — canonical REST Markdown template with worked examples
  • references/best-practices.md — best practices, developer-experience tips, and the output quality checklist

Workflow

  • Gather API information. Determine the API type (REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, gRPC), authentication method (API key, OAuth, JWT), base URL and versioning strategy, available endpoints and their purposes, request/response formats, and any rate limiting or usage restrictions.
  • Build the documentation structure. Cover every section in references/documentation-structure.md, ordering the most common operations first.
  • Generate the output. Follow references/output-template.md for REST APIs; adapt to schema, query, mutation, and subscription examples for GraphQL. Replace all placeholders with realistic example data and show both request and response.
  • Document errors and rate limits. Include the standard error response format, common error codes, troubleshooting guidance, limits, headers to check, and how to handle 429 responses.
  • Provide code samples in multiple languages (curl, JavaScript, Python) and link SDKs, Postman collections, or OpenAPI specs where available.
  • Verify quality against the checklist in references/best-practices.md before delivering.

Example Triggers

  • "Write API documentation for my REST endpoints"
  • "Create OpenAPI spec for my API"
  • "Document this GraphQL schema"
  • "Generate developer docs for my webhook API"
  • "Write authentication guide for API"

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take onewave-ai/api-documentation-writer from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.