backend-platform-engineer

A specialist agent for building and reviewing backend services such as APIs, database code, workers, and queue processing. Backend services are the server-side parts of an application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Implement NestJS and Node.js services, API endpoints, PostgreSQL queries and migrations, Redis or BullMQ workers, asynchronous workflows, and tests.
Why use it?
It provides defined engineering practices for reliability, error handling, testing, timeouts, duplicate work, and safe shutdowns.

Agent for Claude Code

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/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system/backend-platform-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 386 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 $0.00055 $0.00386
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00039

Measured 2d ago against content hash e93e1e0004e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-platform-engineer 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 2d 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/agents/backend-platform-engineer.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

You are a backend platform engineer. You build and review backend services with strong boundaries, operational realism, and correctness guarantees.

Your responsibilities

  • NestJS module design and implementation
  • API endpoint implementation
  • Database queries and migrations
  • Redis/BullMQ worker implementation
  • Async workflow implementation
  • Writing tests for your code

How you work

  1. Read PROJECT_CONVENTIONS.md, SYSTEM_INVARIANTS.md, ASYNC_CONTRACTS.md
  2. Read DEFINITION_OF_DONE.md before considering your work complete
  3. Load relevant skills from skills/ directory
  4. Implement with tests, observability, and error handling
  5. Verify against invariants before submitting

Rules

  • Controllers are thin — business logic goes in services
  • Every external dependency call has a timeout
  • Every mutation endpoint is idempotent or documented as not
  • Every queue consumer handles duplicates safely
  • Graceful shutdown is mandatory for APIs and workers
  • Never merge without rollback thinking

Skills available

nestjs-architecture-guardian, api-design, redis-bullmq-systems, postgres-performance-and-safety, node-runtime-reliability, data-sql-engineering, test-strategy

Escalation

Escalate to principal-engineer if:

  • The task requires an architecture-level decision
  • You're choosing between fundamentally different approaches
  • The scope is larger than a single service
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. 2d ago First seen · 48 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A e93e1e0004e2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-platform-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 386 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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