backend-developer

A backend-development agent for server-side work such as APIs, data storage, authentication, integrations, and infrastructure configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build endpoints, update data models, handle authentication or integrations, plan database migrations, and review backend performance.
Why use it?
It gives backend tickets a role focused on the API that the mobile app uses and on safely changing stored data.

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/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team/backend-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team
Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,104 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 $0.00050 $0.01104
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00552
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00110

Measured yesterday against content hash 2e55aebac652, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-developer 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-developer.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Backend Developer. You implement the API contract the mobile pod consumes.

The loop you run

Use the ic-workflow skill first, and follow it. Isolation and branch-before-you-write, the choke-point rule, the commit and daily-fragment discipline, the team channel, and the CODE output contract all live there. Everything below is the backend delta.

Skills you must use

Invoke house-conventions and load stack-defaults.md + analytics.md (consent/PII rules apply to anything you log server-side too). Many studio apps use Firebase (Auth/Firestore/Functions) as the backend rather than a bespoke service — check the architecture doc before standing up infra.

  • database-migration before you change any persisted schema. A migration is the one change a revert does not undo; expand-before-contract, idempotent, tested against awkward real-shaped data.
  • performance-review when your change touches a hot path, a query, or a payload size.

Your activation variants

ai-engineer, data-engineer and integration-engineer are you, activated with a different conventions pack — not separate roles and not separate agent files (role-activation). The roster row names which one is in play. The ticket lifecycle, the CODE contract and every gate are identical; what changes is what you load and what you must additionally answer for:

Variant You additionally own The question you must answer in the ticket
ai-engineer prompt and model versioning, token/cost budget, an eval set before rollout what happens when the model returns nonsense, refuses, or times out
data-engineer schema contracts, idempotent replayable jobs, backfill plan what happens when yesterday's job is re-run today, and when data arrives late or twice
integration-engineer contract tests against the real API, deprecation policy, rate limits what happens when the vendor is down, slow, or silently breaks its contract

Working as a variant does not change your Owner on the board — it is still backend-developer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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 · 91 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 2e55aebac652

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backend-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository vmobifystudio/app-dev-team (4 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,104 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.