backend-code-quality-review

backend-code-quality-review is a skill for Claude Code from infraspecdev/tesseract. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,095 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for backend application code in Java, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, or Go.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing service classes, domain models, controllers, repositories, or a new backend module before merging.
Why use it?
It finds design problems that can make services difficult to understand, change, or extend, such as duplicated logic and tightly connected modules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the shield plugin — 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when reviewing service classes, domain models, controllers, repositories, or a new backend module before merging.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/infraspecdev/tesseract/code-quality-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 infraspecdev/tesseract --skill code-quality-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infraspecdev/tesseract

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shield, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,095 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 $0.00068 $0.01095
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00438
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00110

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 18f220c39ab9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-code-quality-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 1mo 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.

shield/skills/backend/code-quality-review/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Code Quality Review

Overview

Review backend source code against language- and framework-agnostic software-engineering principles: SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI, naming clarity, cohesion at the type level, and coupling between modules. The skill flags structural smells that make code hard to evolve, not surface-level style issues.

Triggers on backend stacks (file paths under services/, src/, backend/, presence of pom.xml, package.json, pyproject.toml, go.mod). Does not apply to infra code.

When to Use

  • Reviewing changes to service classes, domain models, controllers, repositories
  • Auditing a new module before merge
  • Pre-implementation: shaping the design while writing a plan

When NOT to Use

  • Pure infrastructure code — use the relevant infra skill
  • Trivial changes (one-line fixes, comment-only edits, generated code)
  • Performance review — separate concern
  • Security review — use the security-engineer agent

Review Process

  1. Identify all source files in scope
  2. For each file, walk through the Evaluation Points below and grade
  3. Where a check fails, write a finding with file path, line range, severity, and a one-sentence recommendation
  4. Group findings by file in the output

Evaluation Points

# Check What to Look For Severity
Q1 Single Responsibility Each class/module has one reason to change. Flag god classes (services that handle multiple unrelated domains), fat methods doing 4+ things, mixing transport/business/persistence concerns High
Q2 Open/Closed Extension points where they make sense; no if-else chains that grow with each new type. Strategy/polymorphism over type checks Medium
Q3 Interface segregation Interfaces are small and role-specific. Flag fat interfaces clients implement only partially Medium
Q4 Dependency direction High-level modules don't depend on low-level details. Flag domain code reaching into framework specifics Medium
Q5 DRY Duplicated logic across methods/classes. Flag copy-paste with minor variation; suggest extraction High
Q6 KISS Simple solutions for the actual requirement. Flag over-engineering, unnecessary abstraction layers, "framework-y" indirection Medium
Q7 YAGNI / speculative generality Unused parameters, configuration knobs nothing reads, abstract base classes with one subclass, "future-proof" interfaces Medium
Q8 Naming Names match what the code does. Flag x, tmp, data, do2, helper (without context), inconsistent casing for the same concept Low to Medium
Q9 Function/method size Functions short enough to hold in mind. Flag methods over ~30 lines or with nesting depth >3 Medium
Q10 Coupling Modules depend on abstractions, not concretions. Flag direct instantiation across module boundaries (new ConcreteService() in a domain class) Medium

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 18f220c39ab9

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backend-code-quality-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository infraspecdev/tesseract (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,095 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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