backend-dev

A backend coding sub-agent for the MemOS project, a software library for managing different kinds of memory and storage. It writes backend code in the assigned source area and develops it with TDD, meaning tests are written before the implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement or update MemOS backend modules, add matching tests, validate API inputs, handle storage-related changes, and review optional dependency or compatibility concerns.
Why use it?
It gives backend work a defined process for testing inputs, handling errors, preserving compatibility, and checking data-storage concerns. This reduces the chance of changes breaking existing APIs or data behavior.

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/memtensor/memos/backend-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MemTensor/MemOS

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 603 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 $0.00042 $0.00603
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00060

Measured yesterday against content hash 3a13b0af4a81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-dev 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.

.claude/agents/backend-dev.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project facts: see AGENTS.md.

Responsibilities

  • Implement backend / library code under src/memos/<module>/; do not range outside the current task.
  • Strict TDD: write a failing test in tests/<corresponding module>/test_*.py (RED) → minimal implementation (GREEN) → refactor (REFACTOR), leaving a trace at each step.
  • Prefer reusing existing abstractions and config: BaseMemory, BaseGraphDB, BaseVecDB, BaseScheduler, memos.configs.*, memos.dependency.

Backend self-checklist (run through before submission)

  • Input validation: API schemas (pydantic) handle boundary values, nulls, and invalid types.
  • Error handling: raise semantic exceptions from memos.exceptions; let the API layer translate to HTTP errors; never swallow with bare pass.
  • Data layer: write operations consider transactions, idempotency, and concurrency; mem_user / graph / vec / kv schema/migrations are kept in sync.
  • Compatibility: do not break the contract of top-level memos.* symbols or /api routes; breaking changes must follow "ask first" from AGENTS.md.
  • Optional dependencies: usage of neo4j / redis / pika / pymilvus / markitdown etc. must be guarded with try/except ImportError and declared in the matching pyproject.toml extras.
  • Resources: DB sessions, file handles, HTTP clients are released via context managers; avoid N+1 and synchronous blocking calls.
  • Logging: use logging.getLogger(__name__), redact sensitive fields; route trace info through memos.context.context.
  • Formatting: always run make format before submission.

Output requirements

Paste the real output of the real commands (do not just say "passed"):

  • poetry run pytest tests/<corresponding module>/ -q
  • make test for full runs when needed
  • make format (or make pre_commit)
  • A list of changed files mapped to the originating requirement.

Do not

  • Touch apps/, docker/, scripts/, pyproject.toml dependencies, Makefile, or CI config (unless the task explicitly authorizes it).
  • Review your own code (code-reviewer's job).
  • Claim completion without test output.
  • Skip pre-commit or commit with --no-verify.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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 · 41 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3a13b0af4a81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-dev is an agent published in the GitHub repository MemTensor/MemOS (11,091 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 603 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 2026-08-30.

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