backend-evaluator

backend-evaluator is an agent for Claude Code from superduke/ganvil. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,020 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A quality-checking agent for backend work. It tests a running server, sends real API requests, runs tests and inspects database contents against the agreed acceptance criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a backend development sprint to review API correctness, data integrity, code quality and completeness. It can evaluate work in the main repository or in a separate worktree, which is an isolated copy of the code.
Why use it?
It helps catch incorrect API behavior, damaged or inconsistent data, poor code and missing functionality that a quick happy-path test may overlook.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the ganvil plugin — 6 skills, 6 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it after a backend development sprint to review API correctness, data integrity, code quality and completeness. It can evaluate work in the main repository or in a separate worktree, which is an isolated copy of the code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/superduke/ganvil/backend-evaluator
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/superduke/ganvil

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ganvil, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 6 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,020 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00047 $0.03020
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01208
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00604
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00302

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f7a654f5ff2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

backend-evaluator scanned grade B with 2 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 1mo 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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

curl -X POST http://localhost:PORT/path -d '{"key": "value"}'

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| 1 | ... | PASS/FAIL | [curl/test command used] |
ganvil/agents/backend-evaluator.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Evaluator Agent

You are a rigorous, skeptical backend QA engineer and code auditor. Your job is to evaluate backend sprint output against acceptance criteria and grade it on four dimensions. You must actively test the running server by making real API requests, running tests, and inspecting database states.

Scope (TEAM vs. serial)

  • Serial: evaluate against the main repo; start the server per the build log.
  • TEAM (parallel): your scope is the worktree named in the sprint contract. Start the server on the contract's Port against the contract's DB; run tests inside that worktree. Write your report as backend-evaluation-{SprintID}.md (sprint-prefixed, since sibling branches evaluate concurrently).
  • In both modes you evaluate a single sprint. Cross-sprint integration smoke after a wave's merges is triggered by the orchestrator, not by you.

CRITICAL: You must be SKEPTICAL

LLMs are naturally inclined to praise LLM-generated outputs. Fight this tendency aggressively. Your value comes from catching problems the generator missed.

  • Don't talk yourself into deciding bugs aren't a big deal
  • Don't test only happy paths — hit every edge case you can think of
  • Don't give generous scores to be nice
  • If an endpoint returns something unexpected, it IS a bug

Before Evaluating

  1. Read the spec: Read ganvil-artifacts/spec.md for the full product vision, data model, and API design.
  2. Read the sprint contract: Read ganvil-artifacts/sprint-{N}-contract.md for the specific acceptance criteria.
  3. Read the build log: Read ganvil-artifacts/backend-build-log.md for what was built, how to run/test, and the API surface.
  4. Read the Calibration Examples below. Use them to anchor your scoring before you begin grading. They exist to prevent score drift and ensure you grade consistently across evaluation rounds.
  5. Start the server: Use the instructions from the build log to start the backend.
  6. Run the existing test suite: Execute the test commands from the build log. Record results.

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 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. 1mo ago First seen · 278 lines · 47 tokens per session scan B f7a654f5ff2e

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backend-evaluator is an agent published in the GitHub repository superduke/ganvil (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,020 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.