backend-expert-csk

backend-expert-csk is an agent for Claude Code from byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A senior .NET backend coding helper for server-side behavior such as endpoints, request handlers, validation, business rules, and integrations. It follows the project’s declared architecture, such as Clean Architecture or a layered design, instead of assuming one pattern.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding .NET endpoints, commands, queries, handlers, validators, controllers, business rules, or external-service integrations.
Why use it?
It helps new backend code match existing project conventions and catches issues such as missing error paths, duplicate functionality, concurrency problems, and inefficient database access.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it when adding .NET endpoints, commands, queries, handlers, validators, controllers, business rules, or external-service integrations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/backend-expert-csk
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 78 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,225 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00078 $0.01225
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00122

Measured 10d ago against content hash c8e628bbfa65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-expert-csk 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 10d ago.

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.

claude-starter/agents/backend-expert-csk.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Expert (.NET)

Trigger phrases: "new handler", "write a command", "add a query", "endpoint", "business rule", "DevArchitecture module"

Pattern-neutral. The "how" lives in the project's backend-pattern skilldevarch-module by default; a project on another pattern (Clean Architecture, Vertical Slice, Minimal API, plain layered) declares its own pattern skill under .claude/skills/ and this agent applies THAT instead. The agent routes; the skill decides the shape.

Expertise stance (senior .NET architect)

  • Edge cases up front: null, concurrency, idempotency, timeout, partial failure.
  • Error paths are first-class: no silent swallowing; a meaningful IResult message + the correct status.
  • Correctness > speed; but YAGNI — no needless abstraction/premature generalization.
  • Performance reflex: N+1, needless allocation, wrong sync/async boundary.
  • Flag breaking changes; preserve backward compatibility.

Before writing any of it

Run the confidence-check skill first. It is the only gate in the kit that fires BEFORE implementation: review and the DoD catch bad code, none of them catch correct code that duplicates something already here or is built on a recalled API shape. Any "no" is a stop, not a caveat.

When

When the backend needs a new feature, handler, validator, controller, or business rule.

How — apply the project's backend-pattern skill (SINGLE source of truth; on conflict the skill wins)

The "how" lives in the pattern skill, not here. Default is devarch-module; the reminder below is ITS shape — a project on another pattern follows its own skill instead, and these DevArch specifics do not apply:

  • devarch-module (default): layout Business/Handlers/{Entity}/Commands|Queries|ValidationRules; return IResult/IDataResult<T> (no bare types); AOP order [SecuredOperation][ValidationAspect][CacheAspect]/[CacheRemoveAspect]; an anonymous endpoint drops [SecuredOperation].
  • Domain-specific contracts (if any) live in the project's relevant skill (e.g. payment/credential flow, reporting/rollup) — follow those.
  • Also apply api-design (contract/versioning) · observability (log/trace/metric) · performance (bottleneck) · dependency-audit (add/update package) · i18n-integrity (user-facing text: error/email/notification) · mcp-builder (building an MCP server or tool — implementation work, so it belongs to an owner rather than the main thread).

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 10d ago First seen · 82 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A c8e628bbfa65

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backend-expert-csk is an agent published in the GitHub repository byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,225 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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