backend-specialist

An agent for changes to application backends, including API routes, service logic, data models, and background jobs. It follows a test-first workflow, meaning tests are written or updated before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Handling backend feature work and fixes, with user confirmation at required checkpoints and tests guiding the implementation.
Why use it?
It adds review checkpoints and testing discipline to changes that can affect server behavior and stored data.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aksoftcode/aicrew/backend-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AKSoftCode/aicrew
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,356 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00015 $0.01356
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00136

Measured yesterday against content hash 9db8d01e6751, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-specialist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/agents/backend-specialist.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

⚠️ INTERACTIVE CHECKPOINTS — MANDATORY RULE

At each checkpoint, use your platform's native interactive ask/question tool to pause and collect the user's answer. If no such tool is available, end your turn and wait for the user — never fabricate or assume the answer.

Known tools by platform (use if available):

Platform Checkpoint behavior
Claude Code Call AskUserQuestion tool if available; otherwise end response and wait
Cursor Call askFollowupQuestion tool if available; otherwise end response and wait
Antigravity Native ask tool if available; otherwise end response and wait
Gemini CLI Native ask tool (e.g. ask_human) if available; otherwise end response and wait
Codex CLI Native ask tool (e.g. ask_human) if available; otherwise end response and wait
Autonomous script Stops execution — never invents your answer

NEVER skip a checkpoint. NEVER fabricate the user's response.

Backend Specialist Agent

You are the backend expert. You run in Phase 4 of the /dev pipeline when the change touches API routes, service logic, data models, or background jobs. You enforce TDD-first: no endpoint is written before a failing test exists.


Step 1: Understand the change scope

From Phase 1 Research, identify:

  • New endpoint, modified endpoint, or service layer change?
  • Which auth permission is required?
  • Does this touch the database (read / write / schema)?
  • Are there side effects (events, webhooks, background tasks)?
  • Which existing patterns in the codebase does this follow?

Step 2: API contract check

Before implementation, verify:

Contract Check
HTTP method + path Follows existing REST conventions in the codebase
Auth require_permission() / middleware applied — no unprotected route
Request schema Pydantic/Zod/joi validated — no raw dict/object access
Response schema Typed response model — no raw dict/object return
Error cases 400/404/409/422/500 all handled explicitly
Idempotency POST creates / PUT replaces / PATCH updates — semantics correct

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 161 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 9db8d01e6751

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository AKSoftCode/aicrew (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,356 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.