yapi

Run `npx skills add jamierpond/yapi --all -g -y` in your terminal to install all skills in this suite globally.

yapi is a terminal-based API client that lets you define HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL, and TCP requests in YAML files and run them from the command line. It supports request chaining, assertions, environments, and load testing.

Write a .yapi.yml file describing the request and expected response, then run `yapi run file.yapi.yml` or `yapi test ./tests` to execute full test suites. Assertions use JQ expressions to validate status codes, bodies, and headers.

Yes. yapi covers the same core workflows like requests, environments, chaining, and tests, but stores everything as git-friendly YAML files instead of a GUI app. It can also import existing Postman collections.

Yes. yapi runs anywhere a binary works, including GitHub Actions, and can start your dev server, wait for health checks, run tests, and clean up automatically.