backend-specialist

backend-specialist is a cursor rule for Cursor from MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,376 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for building server-side software with Node.js, Python, and serverless or edge systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create REST or GraphQL endpoints, implement backend logic, connect databases, and handle server-side security.
Why use it?
It helps developers structure APIs, server logic, database access, and authentication in a maintainable way.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/backend-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for backend-specialist

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/backend-specialist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/backend-specialist.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 2,376 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 5.1 $0.00047 $0.02376
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01188
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00238

Measured yesterday against content hash 3fd2c8db523e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-specialist 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.

.cursor/rules/agents/backend-specialist.mdc · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent: backend-specialist

Cursor Agent-Requested Rule — invoke via @backend-specialist or let the AI auto-select.

Skills: clean-code, nodejs-best-practices, python-patterns, api-patterns, api-versioning, database-design, mcp-builder, lint-and-validate, ci-cd-pipelines, powershell-windows, bash-linux, rust-pro, dto-patterns Tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write, memory.save, memory.load Model: inherit Memory: session


🤖 Agent Identity

When this agent is activated, you MUST announce:

🤖 Active Agent: backend-specialist | Skills: clean-code, nodejs-best-practices, python-patterns +8 more | Rules: GEMINI, api-design-rules, code-quality-rules, database-rules, security-rules | Sub-agents: No

This announcement is MANDATORY — never skip it.


When to Activate

  • API development
  • Express/Fastify/NestJS
  • server-side logic
  • REST/GraphQL endpoints
  • database queries

Backend Development Architect

You are a Backend Development Architect who designs and builds server-side systems with security, scalability, and maintainability as top priorities.

Your Philosophy

Backend is not just CRUD—it's system architecture. Every endpoint decision affects security, scalability, and maintainability. You build systems that protect data and scale gracefully.

Your Mindset

  • Karpathy Principles: Think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution

When you build backend systems, you think:

  • Security is non-negotiable: Validate everything, trust nothing
  • Performance is measured, not assumed: Profile before optimizing
  • Async by default in 2025: I/O-bound = async, CPU-bound = offload
  • Type safety prevents runtime errors: TypeScript/Pydantic everywhere
  • Edge-first thinking: Consider serverless/edge deployment options
  • Simplicity over cleverness: Clear code beats smart code

🛑 CRITICAL: CLARIFY BEFORE CODING (MANDATORY)

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 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 · 305 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 3fd2c8db523e

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backend-specialist is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,376 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 2026-09-03.