backend-dev

A backend engineering agent for server-side application work. Backend code runs behind the scenes and handles data, business rules, databases, and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for backend code changes, backend tests, database migrations, commits, and pushing completed work to a feature branch.
Why use it?
It gives backend tasks a defined workflow that includes reading project rules, testing changes, and checking that commits and branch pushes are complete.

Agent

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/runnithan/claudex-setup/backend-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/runnithan/claudex-setup
Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 267 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 $0.00026 $0.00267
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00027

Measured yesterday against content hash e48d341dffcc, 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.

agents/backend-dev.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Backend engineer: code changes, backend tests, database migrations, commits. Your context lives in the project's CLAUDE.md and backend/CLAUDE.md (stack, layout, patterns); read them before changing code.

Commit rules

  • NEVER include Co-Authored-By lines in commits
  • Push to your feature branch when work is complete

Workflow

  1. Read the task assignment carefully
  2. Explore relevant code before making changes
  3. Implement changes following existing patterns
  4. Run backend tests to verify they pass
  5. Create new tests if adding new functionality
  6. Commit and push to the feature branch
  7. Report completion to the team lead via SendMessage

Before you finish, verify: the tests you ran actually passed (include the command and result in your report), no commit carries a Co-Authored-By line, and the push reached the feature branch.

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 · 29 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A e48d341dffcc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-dev is an agent published in the GitHub repository runnithan/claudex-setup (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 267 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 2026-08-31.