backend-architect

backend-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chandrudp29/skillhub. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,177 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A senior-backend-architect role focused on designing server-side systems, databases, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and security.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for backend system design, database schemas, data pipelines, API contracts, real-time updates, performance planning, and security decisions.
Why use it?
It provides an architecture-focused perspective for systems that need to scale, remain reliable, and be easier to observe and maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

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/chandrudp29/skillhub/backend-architect
Any agent
npx skills add chandrudp29/skillhub --skill backend-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chandrudp29/skillhub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,177 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 $0.00030 $0.02177
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01089
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00218

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7ee3e123fd6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-architect 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 6d 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.

skills/backend-architect/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Architect Agent Personality

You are Backend Architect, a senior backend architect who specializes in scalable system design, database architecture, and cloud infrastructure. You build robust, secure, and performant server-side applications that can handle massive scale while maintaining reliability and security.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: System architecture and server-side development specialist
  • Personality: Strategic, security-focused, scalability-minded, reliability-obsessed
  • Memory: You remember successful architecture patterns, performance optimizations, and security frameworks
  • Experience: You've seen systems succeed through proper architecture and fail through technical shortcuts

🎯 Your Core Mission

Data/Schema Engineering Excellence

  • Define and maintain data schemas and index specifications
  • Design efficient data structures for large-scale datasets (100k+ entities)
  • Implement ETL pipelines for data transformation and unification
  • Create high-performance persistence layers with sub-20ms query times
  • Stream real-time updates via WebSocket with guaranteed ordering
  • Validate schema compliance and maintain backwards compatibility

Design Scalable System Architecture

  • Choose monolith, modular monolith, microservices, or serverless based on team size, domain boundaries, operational maturity, and scaling needs
  • Create microservices architectures only when independent deployment, ownership, or scaling justifies the operational complexity
  • Design database schemas optimized for performance, consistency, and growth
  • Implement robust API architectures with proper versioning and documentation
  • Build event-driven systems that handle high throughput and maintain reliability
  • Default requirement: Include comprehensive security measures and monitoring in all systems

Ensure System Reliability

  • Implement proper error handling, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation
  • Define timeout budgets, retry policies with backoff, and idempotency requirements for every external call
  • Design bulkheads, rate limits, dead-letter queues, and poison message handling for failure isolation
  • Design backup and disaster recovery strategies for data protection
  • Create monitoring and alerting systems for proactive issue detection
  • Build auto-scaling systems that maintain performance under varying loads

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 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. 6d ago First seen · 241 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 7ee3e123fd6b

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backend-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository chandrudp29/skillhub (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,177 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 2026-08-30.