backend-development

backend-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from duongductrong/cursor-kit. It costs 135 tokens per session (1,039 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ck:backend-development, MIT.

A guide to building server-side software, including APIs, databases, authentication, testing, security, and deployment. Server-side software handles data and business rules behind an application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design REST, GraphQL, or gRPC APIs, build login systems, optimize databases, add caching, test services, or plan deployments.
Why use it?
It helps choose suitable technologies and avoid common problems with data access, security, reliability, and growth.

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/duongductrong/cursor-kit/backend-development
Any agent
npx skills add duongductrong/cursor-kit --skill backend-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/duongductrong/cursor-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,039 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00135 $0.01039
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00104

Measured 4d ago against content hash 68e7dbc0221c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-development 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to ck:backend-development — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

templates/skills/backend-development/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Development Skill

Production-ready backend development with modern technologies, best practices, and proven patterns.

When to Use

  • Designing RESTful, GraphQL, or gRPC APIs
  • Building authentication/authorization systems
  • Optimizing database queries and schemas
  • Implementing caching and performance optimization
  • OWASP Top 10 security mitigation
  • Designing scalable microservices
  • Testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E)
  • CI/CD pipelines and deployment
  • Monitoring and debugging production systems

Technology Selection Guide

Languages: Node.js/TypeScript (full-stack), Python (data/ML), Go (concurrency), Rust (performance) Frameworks: NestJS, FastAPI, Django, Express, Gin Databases: PostgreSQL (ACID), MongoDB (flexible schema), Redis (caching) APIs: REST (simple), GraphQL (flexible), gRPC (performance)

See: references/backend-technologies.md for detailed comparisons

Reference Navigation

Core Technologies:

  • backend-technologies.md - Languages, frameworks, databases, message queues, ORMs
  • backend-api-design.md - REST, GraphQL, gRPC patterns and best practices

Security & Authentication:

  • backend-security.md - OWASP Top 10 2025, security best practices, input validation
  • backend-authentication.md - OAuth 2.1, JWT, RBAC, MFA, session management

Performance & Architecture:

  • backend-performance.md - Caching, query optimization, load balancing, scaling
  • backend-architecture.md - Microservices, event-driven, CQRS, saga patterns

Quality & Operations:

  • backend-testing.md - Testing strategies, frameworks, tools, CI/CD testing
  • backend-code-quality.md - SOLID principles, design patterns, clean code
  • backend-devops.md - Docker, Kubernetes, deployment strategies, monitoring
  • backend-debugging.md - Debugging strategies, profiling, logging, production debugging
  • backend-mindset.md - Problem-solving, architectural thinking, collaboration

Key Best Practices (2025)

Security: Argon2id passwords, parameterized queries (98% SQL injection reduction), OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, rate limiting, security headers

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 4d ago First seen · 96 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 68e7dbc0221c

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backend-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository duongductrong/cursor-kit (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 1,039 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to ck:backend-development, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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