diff --git a/android/mutator.go b/android/mutator.go
index 9e4aa59..83d4e66 100644
--- a/android/mutator.go
+++ b/android/mutator.go
@@ -31,22 +31,33 @@
 
 // RegisterMutatorsForBazelConversion is a alternate registration pipeline for bp2build. Exported for testing.
 func RegisterMutatorsForBazelConversion(ctx *Context, preArchMutators []RegisterMutatorFunc) {
+	bp2buildMutators := append(preArchMutators, registerBp2buildConversionMutator)
+	registerMutatorsForBazelConversion(ctx, bp2buildMutators)
+}
+
+// RegisterMutatorsForApiBazelConversion is an alternate registration pipeline for api_bp2build
+// This pipeline restricts generation of Bazel targets to Soong modules that contribute APIs
+func RegisterMutatorsForApiBazelConversion(ctx *Context, preArchMutators []RegisterMutatorFunc) {
+	bp2buildMutators := append(preArchMutators, registerApiBp2buildConversionMutator)
+	registerMutatorsForBazelConversion(ctx, bp2buildMutators)
+}
+
+func registerMutatorsForBazelConversion(ctx *Context, bp2buildMutators []RegisterMutatorFunc) {
 	mctx := &registerMutatorsContext{
 		bazelConversionMode: true,
 	}
 
-	bp2buildMutators := append([]RegisterMutatorFunc{
+	allMutators := append([]RegisterMutatorFunc{
 		RegisterNamespaceMutator,
 		RegisterDefaultsPreArchMutators,
 		// TODO(b/165114590): this is required to resolve deps that are only prebuilts, but we should
 		// evaluate the impact on conversion.
 		RegisterPrebuiltsPreArchMutators,
 	},
-		preArchMutators...)
-	bp2buildMutators = append(bp2buildMutators, registerBp2buildConversionMutator)
+		bp2buildMutators...)
 
 	// Register bp2build mutators
-	for _, f := range bp2buildMutators {
+	for _, f := range allMutators {
 		f(mctx)
 	}