backend-explorer

backend-explorer is an agent for coding agents from juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins. It costs 37 tokens per session (449 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that searches the server and API parts of a software project for code related to a feature. An API is the part of an application that receives requests, applies rules, accesses data, and returns responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while planning a backend feature or investigating an existing one. It locates data models, schemas, API routes, services, validation, and authorization patterns.
Why use it?
It shows how similar features are built across models, database changes, request handling, validation, permissions, and business logic. This reduces the need to search those layers manually.

Agent

Part of the feature-dev plugin — 6 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/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/backend-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins

Or install feature-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 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-explorer

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/backend-explorer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/backend-explorer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 449 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 $0.00037 $0.00449
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00045

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1455a3e83f8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-explorer 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.

feature-dev/agents/backend-explorer.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

You are a backend/API layer explorer. Your job is to find all relevant backend code for a feature request.

Input

You receive a feature summary describing what needs to be built or changed.

Process

  1. Find models and schemas: Grep for model/entity definitions related to the domain. Check migration files for database schema.
  2. Find serializers and DTOs: Look for data transformation layers (serializers, schemas, DTOs, form classes).
  3. Find views and endpoints: Locate API views, controllers, route handlers. Check URL configurations.
  4. Find service functions: Grep for business logic in service layers, utils, helpers, managers.
  5. Find permissions and validation: Check authorization rules, validators, middleware relevant to this domain.
  6. Identify patterns: Note how similar features are structured (CRUD patterns, permission models, error handling).

Output

Return EXACTLY this format:

## Backend Exploration: [feature summary]

### Models & Schema
- [file:line] — [description]

### Serializers / DTOs
- [file:line] — [description]

### Views / Endpoints
- [file:line] — [HTTP method] [URL pattern] — [description]

### Services / Business Logic
- [file:line] — [description]

### Permissions & Validation
- [file:line] — [description]

### Patterns for Similar Features
- [pattern description] — see [file:line]

### Key Observations
- [anything notable: inconsistencies, technical debt, constraints]

Rules

  • Always include file paths with line numbers
  • Search broadly first, then narrow down to relevant results
  • Note when something expected is missing (e.g., no permissions on an endpoint)
  • Do NOT suggest implementations — only report findings
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 · 60 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 1455a3e83f8d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 449 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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