backend-patterns

backend-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Nmor/the-claude-council. It costs 31 tokens per session (6,700 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to designing server-side applications and APIs with Node.js, Express, and Next.js API routes. It also covers database performance and common backend architecture choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building web backends, designing API endpoints, and optimizing the database layer of Node.js applications.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose sensible ways to structure servers, expose APIs, and avoid common performance problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It is for building web backends, designing API endpoints, and optimizing the database layer of Node.js applications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nmor/the-claude-council/backend-patterns
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 Nmor/the-claude-council --skill backend-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nmor/the-claude-council

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,700 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00031 $0.06700
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.03350
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00670

Measured 4d ago against content hash fbced37ac108, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-patterns scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

const requests = this.requests.get(identifier) || []
skills/backend-patterns/SKILL.md · 919 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 919 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A fbced37ac108

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backend-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nmor/the-claude-council (9 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 6,700 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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