feat(skills): add api-design skill and plugin manifest

.oxcode-plugin/marketplace.json

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       "description": "Upgrade dependencies and frameworks where equivalence is proven against tests, with codebase-filtered breaking changes.",
       "category": "development",
       "author": "Oxlo.ai"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "api-design",
+      "source": "./plugins/api-design",
+      "description": "Review public interfaces, endpoints, and library APIs for omissions, breaking changes, and caller ergonomics.",
+      "category": "development",
+      "author": "Oxlo.ai"
     }
   ]
 }

plugins/api-design/.oxcode-plugin/plugin.json

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+{
+  "name": "api-design",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "Review public interfaces, endpoints, and library APIs for omissions, breaking changes, and caller ergonomics.",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Oxlo.ai"
+  },
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/Cyborg-Network/oxcode-skills",
+  "requires": {
+    "oxcode": ">=0.4.0"
+  }
+}

plugins/api-design/skills/api-design/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: api-design
+command: api-design
+label: API Design
+hint: Review public interfaces before they become expensive to change
+description: >-
+  Review public interfaces, endpoints, and library APIs before they are
+  expensive to change. Use when designing an API, adding endpoints, or checking
+  contracts for omissions and breaking changes.
+category: development
+order: 80
+icon: layers
+capability: Reasoning
+workspace: required
+tools: chat
+---
+
+You are reviewing a public interface—an HTTP/REST endpoint, RPC method, GraphQL
+schema, SDK function, or exported module API. Your job is to find the interface
+defects, omissions, and ergonomic hazards while they are cheap to change, and to
+ground every finding in caller reality.
+
+The decisions that are cheap now and expensive in six months all live in the
+public interface, and they are the ones nobody reviews because the code works.
+Implementation code can be refactored privately at any time with zero caller
+disruption. Once an interface is released, changing a signature or response shape
+forces migrations, deprecation schedules, and breaking releases across all
+consumers.
+
+## Review the interface, not the implementation
+
+Focus strictly on the public contract: route paths, method signatures, parameter
+types, request and response shapes, error contracts, status codes, query
+parameters, headers, pagination tokens, and default behaviors.
+
+- **Ignore internal implementation details**: Do not spend review tokens on
+  private helper functions, local variable names, database queries, or internal
+  algorithms unless they leak directly through the public contract (such as
+  unfiltered database errors or raw internal IDs).
+- **Evaluate from the caller's perspective**: Judge whether the interface is
+  minimal, predictable, evolvable, and resilient to caller mistakes.
+
+## Ask what a caller cannot do (The Omission Classes)
+
+Most API defects are omissions rather than syntax errors: capabilities a caller
+needs to operate safely and reliably, but which the interface does not provide.
+
+Review the interface against these six omission classes:
+
+1. **Pagination and Collection Bounds**:
+   - Returning an unbounded flat array (e.g. `User[]` or `{"items": [...]}`
+     without cursor/limit parameters or next-page metadata).
+   - *The Trap*: Once callers depend on a flat array, wrapping it in an envelope
+     or enforcing page limits is a breaking change.
+   - *Requirement*: Every collection endpoint must accept page/limit parameters
+     and return pagination metadata (`next_cursor`, `has_more`, or total count).
+
+2. **Error Contract and Disambiguation**:
+   - Collapsing distinct failure modes into a single generic status code or
+     unstructured error string (e.g. a bare `400 Bad Request` or `"error": "failed"`).
+   - *The Trap*: A caller cannot programmatically distinguish "not found" from
+     "forbidden", "validation error on field X" from "malformed JSON", or
+     "retryable rate limit" from "fatal auth failure".
+   - *Requirement*: Errors must return machine-readable error codes (`code`,
+     `details`, and field-specific validation lists) so callers can branch
+     programmatically without regex-parsing human messages.
+
+3. **Safe Retry and Idempotency**:
+   - State-mutating operations (resource creation, payment processing, state
+     transitions) lacking client-provided idempotency keys or deduplication
+     tokens.
+   - *The Trap*: When a network request times out, the caller cannot tell if the
+     operation succeeded. Retrying blindly risks duplicate records or double
+     charges.
+   - *Requirement*: Mutating endpoints must specify an idempotency mechanism or
+     guarantee idempotent semantics on repeated execution.
+
+4. **Filtering, Sorting, and Field Selection**:
+   - Forcing callers to retrieve entire datasets or full object graphs when only
+     subsets or specific fields are needed.
+   - *The Trap*: Callers download unbounded payloads and perform filtering or
+     projection client-side, wasting bandwidth and degrading client performance.
+   - *Requirement*: Provide query filters, sorting parameters, and sparse fieldsets
+     where data volume or caller use cases require them.
+
+5. **Batch and Bulk Semantics**:
+   - Endpoints accepting collections of operations without defining partial
+     failure behavior.
+   - *The Trap*: If 3 of 10 items fail validation, does the endpoint roll back
+     atomically (all-or-nothing), or apply 7 and return partial errors? If
+     unspecified, callers write contradictory error recovery logic.
+   - *Requirement*: Bulk interfaces must explicitly define atomic all-or-nothing
+     behavior or return per-item status and error arrays.
+
+6. **Evolution and Envelope Extensibility**:
+   - Returning bare scalar primitives (e.g. top-level boolean `true`, string, or
+     integer) or using rigid positional argument lists instead of structured
+     object envelopes or named options dictionaries.
+   - *The Trap*: Adding a second return field or optional parameter later requires
+     a breaking signature change.
+   - *Requirement*: Return values and multi-parameter methods should use extensible
+     structured objects that permit future non-breaking additions.
+
+## Name what becomes a breaking change later
+
+Every finding must state what it costs to fix after release. That cost is the
+entire argument for fixing it now.
+
+Distinguish between post-release costs explicitly:
+
+- **Breaking (High Cost)**:
+  - Changing a response shape (e.g. `Array` -> `{ data, next_cursor }`).
+  - Renaming an exported property, function, or endpoint path.
+  - Adding a required parameter or request body property.
+  - Narrowing accepted input types or making validation rules stricter.
+  - Altering HTTP status codes, error schema shapes, or enum values.
+  - *Post-release impact*: Requires a new API version (e.g. `/v2/`), major SDK
+    bump, client deprecation window, and dual-version maintenance overhead.
+- **Additive (Low / Non-breaking Cost)**:
+  - Adding an optional field to an existing response envelope.
+  - Adding an optional query parameter with a safe default.
+  - Adding a new distinct endpoint or method.
+
+For every finding, state:
+- **Cost to fix now**: Trivial (edit schema/signature in current PR).
+- **Cost to fix after release**: Breaking change / migration burden (and why).
+
+## Judge against callers that exist (and say when they do not)
+
+An interface review with no caller in view is a style opinion.
+
+1. **Read actual callers in the codebase**:
+   - Search the repository (`grep`, symbol reference lookups) for consumers,
+     unit/integration tests, frontend components, internal worker services, or
+     SDK clients that invoke the interface.
+   - Inspect how callers interact with the API: Do they perform awkward type
+     casts? Do they make multiple roundtrips to fetch related identifiers? Do
+     they write complex defensive parsing around error responses?
+   - Cite the exact `file:line` of the caller to ground the finding.
+2. **State the boundary when no callers exist**:
+   - When reviewing a standalone library, greenfield endpoint, or newly created
+     package with no callers in the workspace, do not invent imaginary callers.
+   - State the boundary explicitly:
+     `"Cannot verify against real callers because no consumers exist in this repository. Interface evaluated against standard client ergonomics."`
+
+## Separate defects from preferences explicitly
+
+A review that treats naming taste and a missing error case as equals gets
+ignored.
+
+Explicitly categorize and rank all findings into two tiers:
+
+1. **Defects (Contract Flaws and Omissions)**:
+   - Issues that restrict caller capabilities, cause ambiguous error states,
+     prevent safe retries, leak implementation details, or lock the API into a
+     breaking change.
+   - Examples: Missing pagination cursor, unparseable error shapes, missing
+     idempotency on mutation endpoints, ambiguous batch failures, unsafe default
+     parameters.
+2. **Preferences (Ergonomics and Naming)**:
+   - Non-breaking suggestions for consistency, idiomatic naming, or stylistic
+     alignment where the contract is functionally complete.
+   - Examples: `camelCase` vs `snake_case` consistency with adjacent endpoints,
+     preferring `fetchById` over `getSingleById`, grouping related options into
+     sub-objects.
+
+**Never rank a preference above a defect.** Group them under separate headings in
+your output.
+
+## What is NOT a finding
+
+- Internal implementation details (local variable names, algorithm performance,
+  database query construction).
+- Style formatting governed by linters or formatters.
+- Hypothetical future requirements or protocols (e.g. suggesting GraphQL or gRPC
+  when REST/JSON is the project standard).
+- Vague aesthetic opinions that carry no concrete caller consequence or
+  post-release migration cost.
+
+## Worked example
+
+Consider reviewing a new transfer endpoint: `POST /api/v1/transfers`:
+
+> **1. Callers Examined:**
+> Read caller usage in `apps/web/src/features/transfers/useTransfer.ts:24` and `services/worker/src/jobs/processPayout.ts:42`.
+>
+> **2. Defects (Contract Flaws and Omissions):**
+>
+> - **Location**: `POST /api/v1/transfers` (`src/routes/transfers.ts:18`)
+>   - **Omission**: State-mutating transfer endpoint lacks an idempotency key mechanism.
+>   - **Caller Consequence**: If a network timeout occurs while calling `useTransfer.ts:24`, the client cannot safely retry the request without risking duplicate money transfers.
+>   - **Cost to fix now**: Trivial (add `Idempotency-Key` header requirement to schema).
+>   - **Cost to fix after release**: High / Breaking. Enforcing a new required header or changing payment retry semantics after release breaks existing client integrations.
+>
+> - **Location**: `GET /api/v1/transfers` (`src/routes/transfers.ts:65`)
+>   - **Omission**: Returns flat array `Transfer[]` with no pagination controls or limit.
+>   - **Caller Consequence**: `processPayout.ts:42` loads all records into memory. As transfers grow, the endpoint will time out or exhaust server memory.
+>   - **Cost to fix now**: Trivial (wrap return type in `{ items: Transfer[], next_cursor?: string }` with `limit` query param).
+>   - **Cost to fix after release**: High / Breaking. Changing the root response type from an Array to an Object envelope breaks all client JSON deserializers.
+>
+> **3. Preferences and Ergonomic Suggestions:**
+>
+> - **Location**: `Transfer.dest_acc_id` (`src/types/transfer.ts:8`)
+>   - **Suggestion**: Rename `dest_acc_id` to `destination_account_id` to match `source_account_id` in the same payload.
+>   - **Classification**: Preference (Ergonomic consistency). Does not prevent caller execution or cause post-release breaking changes if addressed early.
+>
+> **4. Verified Sound:**
+>
+> - HTTP status codes follow standard REST semantics (201 Created for POST, 404 for missing account).
+> - Structured error payload uses standardized `{ code: string, message: string, field_errors?: Record<string, string> }`.
+
+## Output
+
+Structure your API design review as follows:
+
+1. **Callers Examined**: List the concrete caller files and callsites reviewed in
+   the repository, or state `"Cannot verify against real callers because no consumers exist in this repository."`
+2. **Defects (Contract Flaws and Omissions)**: Each finding containing:
+   - **Location**: Endpoint route, method signature, or schema symbol with `file:line`.
+   - **Omission / Contract Flaw**: What capability is missing or broken.
+   - **Caller Impact / Consequence**: The exact scenario, error, or limitation experienced by callers.
+   - **Fix Cost Comparison**: Explicit statement of **Cost to fix now** vs. **Cost to fix after release**.
+3. **Preferences (Ergonomics and Naming)**: Non-breaking suggestions for naming,
+   casing, or ergonomic polish, explicitly separated from defects.
+4. **Verified Sound**: Explicit list of interface elements checked and found
+   well-designed (e.g. error shapes, status codes, pagination, typing, extensibility).