backend-work

backend-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pmikutel/directed-memory-bank. It costs 25 tokens per session (174 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for work on the server side of an application, including APIs, databases, and business logic. It tells the agent which project notes to load before changing backend code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or continuing server, API, database-access, or business-logic changes.
Why use it?
It helps the agent use the project's existing architecture and rules instead of making backend changes without context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when starting or continuing server, API, database-access, or business-logic changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pmikutel/directed-memory-bank/backend-work
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 pmikutel/directed-memory-bank --skill backend-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pmikutel/directed-memory-bank

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 174 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 $0.00025 $0.00174
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00087
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00017

Measured 7d ago against content hash f20da55feb5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-work 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 7d 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.

template/integrations/claude/skills/backend-work/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

backend-work

Routing skill for backend code work. Loads the memory-bank files relevant for backend changes.

Load:

  • memory-bank/project/brief.md
  • memory-bank/technical/stack.md
  • memory-bank/technical/backend.md (if present)
  • memory-bank/technical/api-standards.md (if present)
  • memory-bank/technical/quality.md (if present)

If a memory-bank/tasks/work/*.md file has branch: matching the current git branch, also load it.

No knowledge in this file — the listed files are the source. memory-bank/_index.md is the inventory if you need to discover what else exists.

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. 7d ago First seen · 21 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A f20da55feb5e

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backend-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository pmikutel/directed-memory-bank (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 174 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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