api-backend-development

api-backend-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 22 tokens per session (505 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of standards for designing REST APIs and structuring server-side code. REST APIs let applications exchange data over predictable web endpoints.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides URL naming, status codes, pagination, request validation, layered architecture, database access, retries, and safe error handling.
Why use it?
It reduces inconsistent endpoints, mixed-up responsibilities, inefficient database access, and error responses that reveal internal details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It guides URL naming, status codes, pagination, request validation, layered architecture, database access, retries, and safe error handling.

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npx skills add jxoesneon/Ciel --skill api-backend-development
Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 505 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 $0.00022 $0.00505
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured 5d ago against content hash 01c9e197845c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-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 5d 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/api-backend-development/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

CIEL ADAPTATION: API & Backend Development (Server-Side)

This skill formalizes the development of scalable, maintainable server-side systems. it enforces resource-based REST design and a strict layered architecture.

API Design Mandates

  1. Resource Naming: Use plural nouns, lowercase, kebab-case (e.g., /api/v1/team-members).
  2. Semantic Status Codes:
    • 201 Created: For successful POSTs.
    • 422 Unprocessable Entity: For semantically invalid data (Zod/Pydantic errors).
    • 500: Never leak details (stack traces/SQL) to the client.
  3. Pagination: Default to Cursor-Based for large datasets; Offset-Based for admin/search.

Layered Architecture (The 3-Layer Pattern)

  • Controller/Handler: Request validation and response mapping. No business logic.
  • Service Layer: Pure business orchestration. Coordinates between repositories and external APIs.
  • Repository: Abstract data access. Maps DB rows to Domain Models.

Performance & Optimization

  • N+1 Prevention: Always batch fetch relationships using IN queries or Joins.
  • Select Specifics: Never SELECT *. Only retrieve required columns.
  • Fail Gracefully: Implement exponential backoff for all external API calls.

Anti-Patterns

  • Verb-in-URL: Using /api/getUsers instead of GET /api/users.
  • Impossible States: Using boolean flag soup instead of a single status enum.
  • Direct DB Leaks: Returning raw ORM/DB objects directly in the API response.
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. 5d ago First seen · 53 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 01c9e197845c

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api-backend-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 505 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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