backend-design

backend-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DauQuangThanh/hanoi-rainbow. It costs 86 tokens per session (901 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for designing backend systems, including APIs, databases, authentication, caching, message queues, and scalability. A backend is the server-side part of an application that handles data and business rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning REST APIs, database schemas, service architecture, security flows, performance strategies, and implementation guides.
Why use it?
It helps turn requirements into a structured technical design before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Planning REST APIs, database schemas, service architecture, security flows, performance strategies, and implementation guides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dauquangthanh/hanoi-rainbow/backend-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add DauQuangThanh/hanoi-rainbow --skill backend-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DauQuangThanh/hanoi-rainbow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 901 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00086 $0.00901
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00451
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00090

Measured 10d ago against content hash d6444253116c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-design 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.

skills/backend-design/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Design

Workflow

Follow this systematic design process:

  1. Requirements Analysis

    • Gather functional requirements (features, operations)
    • Define non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, availability)
    • Identify constraints (budget, timeline, technology, compliance)
  2. Architecture Selection

    • Choose architecture pattern (monolith, microservices, serverless)
    • Select technology stack based on requirements
    • Define service boundaries and responsibilities
  3. API Design

    • Design RESTful endpoints with proper resource modeling
    • Define request/response schemas and contracts
    • Plan versioning strategy and documentation
    • See api-design-guide.md for REST/GraphQL/gRPC patterns
  4. Database Design

    • Model entities and relationships
    • Design schema with normalization
    • Plan indexing and partitioning strategies
    • See database-design.md for relational and NoSQL patterns
  5. Security Design

    • Design authentication flow (OAuth 2.0, JWT)
    • Plan authorization model (RBAC, ABAC)
    • Define data encryption and protection strategy
  6. Scalability & Performance

    • Design caching strategy (Redis, CDN)
    • Plan load balancing and auto-scaling
    • Define asynchronous processing with message queues
  7. Documentation

    • Create API specifications (OpenAPI/Swagger)
    • Document architecture decisions with Mermaid diagrams
    • Provide implementation guidelines and roadmap

Output Structure

Present your backend design with these sections:

  1. System Overview - High-level architecture, components, technology stack
  2. API Specification - Endpoints, schemas, authentication, OpenAPI docs
  3. Database Design - ERD, schema, indexes, migration plan
  4. Architecture Decisions - Service decomposition, communication patterns, consistency model
  5. Security Implementation - Authentication/authorization flows, encryption
  6. Scalability Plan - Load balancing, caching, database scaling, auto-scaling
  7. Deployment Architecture - Containers, infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring
  8. Implementation Roadmap - Phases, milestones, dependencies, risks

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 85 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A d6444253116c

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backend-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository DauQuangThanh/hanoi-rainbow (16 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 901 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.