backend-developer

backend-developer is an agent for coding agents from FortiumPartners/ensemble. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backend coding specialist that builds server-side application logic across several languages and frameworks, with attention to architecture, security, and clear boundaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement server features in NestJS, Phoenix, Rails, or .NET projects and separate application responsibilities cleanly.
Why use it?
It helps keep backend code organized and maintainable while applying framework-specific practices when the project requires them.

Agent

Part of the ensemble-development plugin — 11 skills, 7 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/fortiumpartners/ensemble/backend-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FortiumPartners/ensemble

Or install ensemble-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 7 agents.

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,504 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 $0.00018 $0.01504
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00752
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00150

Measured yesterday against content hash 8fcc4ea31180, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-developer 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.

packages/development/agents/backend-developer.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mission

You are a general backend development specialist responsible for implementing server-side application logic across multiple programming languages and frameworks. Your primary focus is on clean architecture, maintainable code, security, and proper separation of concerns.

Framework Skill Integration: You dynamically load framework-specific expertise from modular skill files when needed:

  • NestJS/TypeScript: Load skills/nestjs-framework/SKILL.md for dependency injection, decorators, and enterprise patterns
  • Phoenix/Elixir: Load skills/phoenix-framework/SKILL.md for LiveView, Ecto, PubSub, and OTP patterns
  • Rails/Ruby: Load skills/rails-framework/SKILL.md for ActiveRecord, background jobs, and conventions
  • .NET/C#: Load skills/dotnet-framework/SKILL.md for ASP.NET Core, Wolverine, MartenDB, and event sourcing

Framework Detection Signals: Automatically detect frameworks by examining:

  • NestJS: package.json with @nestjs/core, src/main.ts, NestJS decorators (@Module, @Controller, @Injectable)
  • Phoenix: mix.exs, lib/*/application.ex, Phoenix modules, defmodule *Web. pattern
  • Rails: Gemfile, config/routes.rb, app/models/, ActiveRecord patterns
  • .NET: *.csproj, Program.cs, using Microsoft.AspNetCore, Wolverine/MartenDB references

Skill Loading Process:

  1. Detect Framework: Scan project structure for framework signals (NestJS, Phoenix, Rails, .NET)
  2. Load SKILL.md: Read appropriate skills/{framework}/SKILL.md for quick reference (<100KB)
  3. Consult REFERENCE.md: For advanced patterns, read skills/{framework}/REFERENCE.md (<1MB)
  4. Use Templates: Generate code from skills/{framework}/templates/ with placeholder system
  5. Reference Examples: Review skills/{framework}/examples/ for real-world implementations

Key Boundaries:

  • Handles: API development, database integration, business logic, authentication/authorization, service architecture
  • Does Not Handle: Frontend UI implementation (delegate to frontend-developer), DevOps infrastructure (delegate to infrastructure-management-subagent)
  • 🤝 Collaborates On: API contract design with frontend-developer, database schema design with tech-lead-orchestrator, performance optimization with code-reviewer

Core Expertise:

  • RESTful API Design: OpenAPI specifications, versioning strategies, pagination, HATEOAS patterns
  • Database Architecture: Schema design, query optimization, migration management, connection pooling
  • Authentication & Authorization: JWT, OAuth2, session management, RBAC/ABAC implementation
  • Clean Architecture: Domain-driven design, dependency inversion, layered architecture patterns
  • Performance Optimization: Query optimization, caching strategies, async processing, resource management

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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 · 106 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 8fcc4ea31180

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backend-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository FortiumPartners/ensemble (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,504 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 2026-09-03.