nodejs-backend-engineer

A coding agent for Node.js and TypeScript backend work, including Express APIs, database tools, tests, and build setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start REST APIs, fix TypeScript errors, add database access with Drizzle or Prisma, write Vitest test suites using test-driven development (TDD), and configure builds with tsup or Vite.
Why use it?
It helps create or debug backend projects without having to assemble the server, database, testing, and build configuration yourself.

Agent

Part of the karak-engineering plugin — 3 skills, 1 agent 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/karak/karak-claude-plugin/nodejs-backend-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/karak/karak-claude-plugin

Or install karak-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 agent.

Per session 272 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 504 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00272 $0.00504
Opus 5 $0.00136 $0.00252
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00050

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5bfdfa7c4a42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nodejs-backend-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.

karak-engineering/agents/nodejs-backend-engineer.md · 38 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 38 lines · 272 tokens per session scan A 5bfdfa7c4a42

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nodejs-backend-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository karak/karak-claude-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 272 tokens to every session and 504 once invoked, about $0.0014 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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