backend-design-review

backend-design-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DauQuangThanh/hanoi-rainbow. It costs 154 tokens per session (1,503 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing the design of backend systems, including their APIs, databases, services, security, and ability to handle growth. An API is the defined way software communicates with other software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine REST, GraphQL, or gRPC APIs, database schemas, service boundaries, communication methods, security controls, and scalability plans.
Why use it?
It helps find design problems before they become expensive code or production issues.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to examine REST, GraphQL, or gRPC APIs, database schemas, service boundaries, communication methods, security controls, and scalability plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dauquangthanh/hanoi-rainbow/backend-design-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 DauQuangThanh/hanoi-rainbow --skill backend-design-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DauQuangThanh/hanoi-rainbow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 154 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,503 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 $0.00154 $0.01503
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00751
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00150

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9319f60273f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-design-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 12d 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-review/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Design Review

Review Workflow

Follow this systematic review process:

1. Pre-Review Preparation

  • Gather design documentation (architecture diagrams, API specs, database schemas, ADRs)
  • Understand requirements (functional, non-functional, compliance)
  • Define review scope and priorities
  • Identify constraints (technology, budget, timeline)

2. API Design Review

  • Evaluate RESTful resource modeling, HTTP method usage, status codes
  • Review GraphQL schema design, type definitions, query patterns
  • Assess gRPC service definitions and protobuf schemas
  • Validate API versioning strategy and documentation
  • Check authentication, authorization, and security measures

3. Database Design Validation

  • Review data modeling, entity relationships, normalization
  • Assess schema design, column types, constraints, indexes
  • Evaluate query patterns and N+1 query prevention
  • Check data integrity rules and referential integrity
  • Review scalability approach (sharding, replicas, caching)

4. Architecture Assessment

  • Evaluate service boundaries and decomposition
  • Review communication patterns (sync/async, event-driven)
  • Assess resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, timeouts)
  • Check service discovery and load balancing design
  • Validate data management and consistency strategies

5. Security Review

  • Evaluate authentication mechanisms (OAuth 2.0, JWT)
  • Review authorization model (RBAC, ABAC)
  • Assess data protection (encryption at rest/transit, secrets)
  • Check input validation and injection prevention
  • Review security monitoring and audit logging

6. Performance & Scalability

  • Assess caching strategy (layers, invalidation, TTL)
  • Review database indexing and query optimization
  • Evaluate horizontal/vertical scaling approach
  • Check load balancing and auto-scaling design
  • Review asynchronous processing patterns

7. Report Generation

  • Categorize findings by severity (Critical, High, Medium, Low)
  • Document detailed findings with examples
  • Provide specific, actionable recommendations
  • Create architecture improvement diagrams
  • Define implementation roadmap and priorities

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 12d ago First seen · 147 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A 9319f60273f8

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backend-design-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository DauQuangThanh/hanoi-rainbow (17 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 1,503 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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