dev-server

A development-environment monitor and repair guide for diagnosing startup problems, backend and frontend errors, and live application logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting the development environment, checking Postgres and Redis, reading FastAPI errors, fixing missing dependencies or migrations, and investigating frontend or backend failures.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent identifying whether a problem comes from missing packages, a stopped database, outdated database changes, or application code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/benja-pauls/serpentstack/dev-server
Any agent
npx skills add Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack --skill dev-server
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 612 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 $0.00033 $0.00612
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00306
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00061

Measured yesterday against content hash 41be0fc57345, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-server 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.

.skills/dev-server/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dev Server

Starting the Dev Environment

make dev          # Starts Postgres, Redis, runs migrations, launches backend + frontend
make dev-docker   # Alternative: run everything in Docker

Backend: http://localhost:8000 · API docs: http://localhost:8000/api/docs Frontend: http://localhost:5173

If make dev fails, check docker compose ps to verify Postgres is healthy.

Error Detection Patterns

Backend (FastAPI) — Structured JSON Logs

Pattern Meaning Fix
"level": "ERROR" Application error Read traceback, module, lineno fields
ModuleNotFoundError Missing dependency cd backend && uv add <package>
sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError Database connection failed Check Postgres is running, migrations are current
sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: relation "X" does not exist Missing migration cd backend && uv run alembic upgrade head
pydantic.ValidationError Schema field mismatch Compare request payload against Pydantic model
ImportError: cannot import name 'X' from 'app.models' Model not exported Add import to backend/app/models/__init__.py

Frontend (Vite/React)

Pattern Meaning Fix
TS\d{4}: (e.g., TS2345) TypeScript error Read file path + line number from message
[vite] Internal server error Build failure Read full error below the message
Module not found: Can't resolve Missing package cd frontend && npm install or add the dependency
Uncaught Error: React runtime error Read component stack trace
[hmr] Failed to reload HMR failure (usually syntax) File path is in the message

Auto-Fix Workflow

When an error is detected:

  1. Classify: syntax, type, import, runtime, or database error
  2. Locate: extract file path and line number from the error output
  3. Check recent changes: git diff HEAD~1 -- <file>
  4. Read the file: open at the relevant line, read 20 lines of surrounding context
  5. Fix: apply the minimal change to resolve the error
  6. Verify: wait for hot-reload, confirm the error is gone

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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 · 59 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 41be0fc57345

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dev-server is a skill published in the GitHub repository Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 612 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 2026-08-31.

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