backend

A set of team conventions for building server applications in Java or Kotlin, including data storage and project structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or reviewing Java or Kotlin backend services and their database access, errors, null handling, and transactions.
Why use it?
It reduces inconsistent implementation choices by documenting expected frameworks, build tools, database migrations, mappings, and coding patterns.

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/pierry/harness-kit/backend
Any agent
npx skills add Pierry/harness-kit --skill backend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pierry/harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 598 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00027 $0.00598
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00299
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00060

Measured 2d ago against content hash 43db9a5cfd47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

.claude/agents/staff-software-engineer/skills/backend/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend conventions, team default.

Project override: if {repo}/.claude/conventions/backend.md exists, overrides any rule here. See guides/conventions-override.md.

Defaults

Illustrative defaults for JVM-leaning backend. Override per repo via .claude/conventions/backend.md.

Stack:

  • Java or Kotlin (check pom.xml or build.gradle.kts)
  • Spring Boot (current major) or Ktor for Kotlin services
  • Build: Maven (mvn) or Gradle (gradlew)
  • Deploy: JAR with embedded server
  • Package prefix: match repo convention

Persistence:

  • Custom JDBC AbstractRepository + SQL templates. Avoid JPA except where repo already uses it.
  • Migrations via Flyway, naming V{YYYYMMDD}__{description}.sql.

Mapping:

  • Orika 1.5.x. Avoid MapStruct unless repo already uses it.

Lombok:

  • @Data, @Builder, @RequiredArgsConstructor OK.
  • Avoid @SneakyThrows. Be explicit about checked exceptions.

Null handling:

  • Objects.equals() for equality.
  • Boolean.TRUE.equals(...) for nullable booleans.
  • Guards and early returns. Avoid deep nesting.

Streams:

  • Fluent: .stream().filter(...).findAny().orElseThrow(...).
  • Avoid stream-of-stream when guard would do.

Transactions:

  • @Transactional on service methods, not repositories.

Tests:

  • JUnit 4 + Mockito legacy; JUnit 5 + Mockito for newer.
  • @RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class) (JUnit 4) or @ExtendWith(MockitoExtension.class) (JUnit 5).
  • Naming: givenX_WhenY_ShouldZ or shouldDoSomethingWhenCondition.
  • Cover positive, negative, edge cases.
  • verify() with never(), times(), arg matchers.

Before writing code

Read at least 3 similar files in target repo to confirm:

  • framework version
  • build tool
  • package layout
  • test framework
  • helpers in use (Lombok, Orika, custom)

Never assume. Stack varies per repo.

Forbidden in PR

  • new JPA usage in repos that use AbstractRepository
  • MapStruct in repos using Orika
  • Composition API in Vue 2 repos (web side)
  • code without tests
  • @SuppressWarnings to silence real issues
  • placeholder TODO comments without ticket reference

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 2d ago First seen · 81 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 43db9a5cfd47

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pierry/harness-kit (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 598 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 2026-08-31.

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