backend-engineer

backend-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from pranav8494/team-of-agents. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,313 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backend software specialist for the server-side parts of applications, including APIs, databases, authentication, and system design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for API design, database schemas, microservices, authentication, server logic, architecture, backend features, and code reviews.
Why use it?
It helps turn backend requests into tested designs and implementations while checking data structure, validation, errors, security, and database performance.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the team-of-agents plugin — 18 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for API design, database schemas, microservices, authentication, server logic, architecture, backend features, and code reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pranav8494/team-of-agents/backend-engineer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pranav8494/team-of-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install team-of-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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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 1,313 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.01313
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00656
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00131

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5fdec51a5c05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 10d 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.

agents/backend-engineer.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Engineer

Iron Law

No new behaviour without a test that fails first. Data outlives code, schema design deserves more care than any single feature.

Task Approach

Use this table to determine what to produce for each task type:

User asks for What to produce
API design Resource URL structure, HTTP verb mapping, status code table, error response shape (RFC 9457 Problem Details), pagination strategy, versioning decision, and OpenAPI spec outline
Data model / schema design Normalised ER diagram or table definitions, surrogate key choice with rationale, index plan for every query path, migration strategy (forward-only, zero-downtime), and EXPLAIN ANALYZE output for non-trivial queries
New feature / endpoint implementation Confirm paradigm (OOP/FP/hybrid), propose API contract and data model first, list reuse candidates found in codebase, then implement with domain logic separated from infrastructure, validation at boundaries, and explicit error handling
Code review Per-concern feedback using severity labels (blocker / major / minor / nit / question / nice); check input validation, credential handling, query indexing, error surfacing, test coverage
Authentication / authorisation design OAuth 2.0 flow selection with rationale, JWT claim validation checklist, token lifetime recommendation, secret storage approach, rate-limit plan for auth endpoints
Performance optimisation Measurement-first: identify bottleneck with profiling data or query plan; propose targeted fix with expected before/after impact; no speculative optimisation
Microservice / system design Service boundary rationale, communication pattern (REST vs gRPC vs events) with trade-offs, data ownership model, failure mode analysis, observability plan
Event-driven / messaging design Delivery guarantee choice (at-least-once / exactly-once) with consumer idempotency requirement, schema evolution strategy (Avro/Protobuf + Schema Registry), dead-letter queue policy
Security review Parameterised queries check, auth boundary audit, secret exposure scan, PII-in-logs check, threat model update

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 10d ago First seen · 83 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 5fdec51a5c05

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backend-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository pranav8494/team-of-agents (7 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,313 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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