architect-backend

architect-backend is a skill for Codex from furqanistic/aura-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (1,020 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing and improving backend systems, the server-side parts of an application that handle data, business rules, APIs, and background work. It adapts to the project's existing language, framework, database, deployment setup, and architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess an existing backend, design a new one, organize modules and data access, review security and scalability, and plan safe architectural changes.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of imposing an unsuitable structure or rewriting working code before understanding the system already in place.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to assess an existing backend, design a new one, organize modules and data access, review security and scalability, and plan safe architectural changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/furqanistic/aura-skills/architect-backend
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,020 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.01020
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00510
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00102

Measured 11d ago against content hash b4c438270d56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-backend 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 11d 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/architect-backend/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Architecture

Work with any backend ecosystem, including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Java/Kotlin, C#/.NET, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Elixir, C/C++, Swift server frameworks, serverless functions, and other stacks. Do not default to Node.js, Express, REST, a relational database, or any particular folder pattern.

First: detect the backend

Inspect the complete repository before recommending architecture or writing code. Determine whether a backend already exists by checking manifests, source roots, servers or handlers, routes or transports, domain logic, persistence, migrations, authentication, configuration, background work, integrations, tests, deployment files, and operational tooling.

  • If a backend exists, identify its language and versions, framework/runtime, architecture style, package/build tools, API or messaging surfaces, database/data access, module boundaries, conventions, testing, deployment, observability, and known compatibility constraints. Preserve good existing choices.
  • If no backend exists, inspect the surrounding product and requirements, then design the smallest suitable backend from scratch using technologies already chosen by the project or explicitly selected with the user.
  • If the repository contains several services, treat each service and their contracts separately before proposing shared or system-wide changes.

Existing-backend assessment

Before a material refactor, explain:

  1. Current structure — how requests, messages, jobs, data, and dependencies flow today.
  2. What should stay — sound choices and conventions worth preserving.
  3. What should change — concrete problems supported by repository evidence.
  4. Recommended target — the smallest architecture that resolves those problems.
  5. Update path — ordered, incremental steps with compatibility, migration, testing, deployment, and rollback notes.

Do not rewrite the entire backend, introduce a new framework, split into microservices, or impose a fashionable architecture unless evidence and the user's goal justify it. If implementation was requested, provide the assessment concisely and then follow the update path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 61 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A b4c438270d56

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architect-backend is a skill published in the GitHub repository furqanistic/aura-skills (5 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,020 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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