Backend Reference

Backend Reference is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agent0ai/space-agent. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Read-only documentation of the backend rules and interfaces that the frontend relies on, including request paths, APIs, authentication, and file operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check routes, API families, login requirements, and app-file operations while building or debugging frontend features.
Why use it?
It helps frontend work account for how the server behaves without treating the reference as permission to edit backend code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to check routes, API families, login requirements, and app-file operations while building or debugging frontend features.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agent0ai/space-agent/backend-reference
About the project

Space Agent is a browser-based agent workspace that can build pages, tools, widgets, and workflows directly into the running interface. It is for users who want an extensible personal or collaborative assistant whose capabilities can grow through modular pieces and text-based skills. Catalogue add-ons extend the agent's skills and workflows.

agent0ai/space-agent · 1,411 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add agent0ai/space-agent --skill backend-reference
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent0ai/space-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,470 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 49
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 67
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00029 $0.01470
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00588
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00147

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0137fc83f230, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Backend Reference 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

app/L0/_all/mod/_core/skillset/ext/skills/development/backend-reference/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use this skill when frontend work depends on understanding backend behavior. This skill is read-only context, not authorization to change backend files.

Hard Boundary

  • Do not edit server/, commands/, or packaging/ from this skill set.
  • If the task truly requires backend changes, stop and ask instead of treating this skill as permission.
  • Backend changes are non-standard in this project. Only ask for them when frontend-only work cannot safely enforce security, integrity, cross-user isolation, or runtime stability.
  • When you ask, explain why the frontend solution would be insufficient and describe the narrow backend change required.

Page And Request Flow

Current request order is:

  1. API preflight handling
  2. /api/proxy
  3. /api/<endpoint>
  4. /mod/...
  5. /~/... and /L0/..., /L1/..., /L2/...
  6. page shells and page actions

The browser app mounts through page shells in server/pages/. /login is public. / and /admin require authentication.

API Families

Important frontend-facing endpoint families are:

  • app files: file_list, file_paths, file_read, file_write, file_delete, file_copy, file_move, file_info, folder_download
  • local history: git_history_list, git_history_diff, git_history_preview, git_history_rollback, git_history_revert
  • modules: module_list, module_info, module_install, module_remove
  • runtime and identity: extensions_load, password_generate, password_change, user_crypto_session_key, user_self_info

These endpoints are thin wrappers over shared helpers in server/lib/customware/ and server/lib/auth/.

file_write still defaults to whole-file replacement, but it also supports operation: "append", "prepend", and "insert". Insert writes accept exactly one anchor through line, before, or after, use the first literal before or after match, treat line as a 1-based insertion point, and require utf8.

file_list and file_paths support access: "write" or writableOnly: true for writable-only discovery. They also support gitRepositories: true; with a pattern such as **/.git/, file_paths returns local-history owner roots like L1/team/ and L2/alice/ without exposing reserved .git metadata paths.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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 · 84 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 0137fc83f230

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Backend Reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository agent0ai/space-agent (1,411 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,470 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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