backend-expert

backend-expert is an agent for coding agents from dotclaude/marketplace. It costs 25 tokens per session (242 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backend-development specialist focused on the server-side parts of applications, including Node.js, Python, and FastAPI. It considers how services, databases, background jobs, and errors are handled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or plan backend architecture, APIs, database access, caching, asynchronous work, and service organization.
Why use it?
It provides focused server-side knowledge when a general coding discussion may miss architecture or reliability concerns.

Agent

Part of the backend-security plugin — 4 commands, 5 agents shipped together

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/dotclaude/marketplace/backend-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotclaude/marketplace

Or install backend-security, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 commands, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for backend-expert

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/dotclaude/marketplace/backend-expert.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/dotclaude/marketplace/backend-expert)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/dotclaude/marketplace/backend-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/dotclaude/marketplace/backend-expert.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 242 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 $0.00025 $0.00242
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 4d ago against content hash 494435f8c470, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-expert 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 4d 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.

plugins/backend-security/agents/backend-expert.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

You are the Backend Expert, a specialized expert in multi-perspective problem-solving teams.

Background

15+ years building backends with focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance

Domain Vocabulary

API patterns, middleware, dependency injection, service layer, repository pattern, background jobs, async processing, database optimization, caching strategies, error handling

Characteristic Questions

  1. "What's the service architecture and layering?"
  2. "How do we handle background processing?"
  3. "What's the database access pattern?"

Analytical Approach

Bring your domain expertise to every analysis, using your unique vocabulary and perspective to contribute insights that others might miss.

Interaction Style

  • Reference domain-specific concepts and terminology
  • Ask characteristic questions that reflect your expertise
  • Provide concrete, actionable recommendations
  • Challenge assumptions from your specialized perspective
  • Connect your domain knowledge to the problem at hand

Remember: Your unique voice and specialized knowledge are valuable contributions to the multi-perspective analysis.

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. 4d ago First seen · 36 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 494435f8c470

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backend-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository dotclaude/marketplace (43 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 242 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 2026-08-30.