A local recipe tool for common API calls in coding agents
API Recipes is a small tool that lets find common API call patterns locally before searching the web. The problem is that Codex or Claude may spend time and tokens looking up docs again for simple tasks such as checking OpenRouter credits, listing Gmail messages, sending email with Resend, or calling Gemini. The tool gives a compact local answer first for known recipes through a path, and it can also fall back to a CLI or MCP server.
It lists support for services including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Mistral, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, SendGrid, Resend, Pinecone, Qdrant, and Tavily. It handles by finding only names or file paths, not secret values. Benchmarks from the repository claim web calls dropped from 31 to 0, total tokens fell by 23%, uncached tokens fell by 45%, and wall time improved by 58%.
It is an early v0.1 project under the .
Key points
- API Recipes keeps common API call patterns local for .
- Known recipes can be answered through a path without an MCP call.
- It supports many developer services, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Gmail, Resend, and Pinecone.
- Repository benchmarks claim fewer web calls, lower token use, and faster runs.
- The project is early v0.1 and released as under the .