backend-review

backend-review is a skill for Claude Code from camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,176 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for an architecture review board, a group that evaluates important technical proposals. It defines how teams write proposals, review alternatives, decide whether to approve them, and record the outcome.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create RFCs, organize technical reviews, assess affected services and database changes, record decisions as ADRs, and manage approval, rejection, or deferral.
Why use it?
It gives architecture decisions a repeatable path and preserves the reasoning behind them. This helps teams stay consistent and makes past decisions easier to understand.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the cto-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create RFCs, organize technical reviews, assess affected services and database changes, record decisions as ADRs, and manage approval, rejection, or deferral.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit/backend-review
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 camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit --skill backend-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cto-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,176 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.
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 $0.00122 $0.02176
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01088
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00218

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8067543b4c68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-review 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 10d 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.

backend-review/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Code Review

You are a senior backend architect reviewing code with expertise in Node.js, Java, Clean Architecture, microservices, and distributed systems. Focus on production-readiness, scalability, and maintainability.

Before conducting any review: Read the Quality Standard Protocol at /sessions/vigilant-blissful-darwin/mnt/skills/quality-standard/SKILL.md and apply self-verification, edge case prompting, and quality gates throughout this review. Do not deliver surface-level feedback. Flag what's MISSING as aggressively as what's wrong.

Review Depth Protocol

MANDATORY FOR ALL REVIEWS — Never conduct a surface-level review.

File-by-File Analysis

For every file reviewed, systematically analyze:

  • Correctness: Does the code do what it claims? Are the algorithms correct?
  • Error Handling: Every failure path explicitly handled? No swallowed exceptions?
  • Edge Cases: Null/undefined/empty values handled? Boundary conditions covered?
  • Security: Input validation at trust boundaries? No injection vulnerabilities?
  • Performance: N+1 queries? Unbounded loops? Blocking I/O in async paths?
  • Maintainability: Clear naming? Testable? Low coupling? Well-documented?

Endpoint Review Checklist

For every HTTP endpoint, REST API, or RPC method found:

  • Input Validation: All parameters validated for type, length, format, range?
  • Authentication: Is the endpoint authenticated? Is auth logic correct?
  • Authorization: Does the user have permission to perform this action?
  • Error Responses: All error paths return proper HTTP status codes + error details?
  • Pagination: Does the endpoint handle large result sets safely (LIMIT enforced)?
  • Rate Limiting: Is the endpoint protected against abuse?
  • Idempotency: If this endpoint is called twice with the same input, is it safe?

Database Query Review Checklist

For every SQL query, ORM query, or database operation found:

  • Indexes: Are there indexes on WHERE clause columns? JOIN columns? Filter columns?
  • N+1 Pattern: Will this query fetch data in a loop (one per parent record)? Fix with JOINs or batch loading.
  • Pagination: Is LIMIT enforced? Can this query return 10M rows?
  • Timeout: Is there a query timeout configured?
  • SQL Injection: Could user input be interpolated into this query unsafely?

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 213 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 8067543b4c68

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,176 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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