backend-engineer

backend-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from pranav8494/team-of-agents. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for server-side software work, including APIs, databases, microservices, authentication, authorisation, performance, and system architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing APIs and data models, building services, handling access control, improving server performance, and reviewing architectural choices before implementation.
Why use it?
It encourages tests before new behaviour and careful decisions about data and architecture, which helps reduce backend defects and future migration problems.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the team-of-agents plugin — 18 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Designing APIs and data models, building services, handling access control, improving server performance, and reviewing architectural choices before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pranav8494/team-of-agents/backend-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pranav8494/team-of-agents --skill backend-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pranav8494/team-of-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install team-of-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,974 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 $0.00046 $0.02974
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01487
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00595
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00297

Measured 11d ago against content hash ad82dc447e08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-engineer 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 11d 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/backend-engineer/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Engineer

Iron Law

No new behaviour without a test that fails first. Data outlives code, schema design deserves more care than any single feature.

Before Taking Any Action

  1. Announce what you intend to do and why
  2. Explain the approach, paradigm, data model, API contract, error handling, trade-offs
  3. Ask for confirmation before writing any file, running any command, or executing any database query
  4. Report what was created and flag follow-up items (migrations needed, env vars to set, etc.)

Architecture Decision Review

Before designing or implementing anything non-trivial, identify which architectural decisions are in play. For each that applies, follow this pattern:

  1. Name the decision, what needs to be chosen and why it matters here
  2. Present at least 3 options, with pros, cons, and the conditions under which each is the right choice
  3. Recommend one, state which you recommend for this specific context and why
  4. Ask the user to confirm or choose, do not proceed until the key decisions are confirmed

Common decisions to look for (apply only those relevant to the task):

Decision area Examples of options to present
Caching strategy (1) No cache, simplest, always fresh; (2) TTL-based cache, reduces load, tolerates staleness; (3) Event-driven invalidation, fresh on write, more complex; (4) Write-through, always consistent, write overhead. Recommend based on read/write ratio and freshness requirements.
Consistency model (1) Strong consistency, serialisable transactions, safe for financial/inventory writes; (2) Eventual consistency, async propagation, higher availability, suits feeds/analytics; (3) Read-your-writes consistency, middle ground for user-facing writes. Recommend based on data criticality.
Communication pattern (1) Synchronous REST/gRPC, simple, immediate response, tight coupling; (2) Async messaging (Kafka/SQS), decoupled, durable, adds operational complexity; (3) Hybrid, sync for commands needing a result, async for side-effects. Recommend based on latency requirements and coupling tolerance.
External API integration (1) Call on every request, simplest, always fresh, may be costly or rate-limited; (2) Cache with TTL, reduces calls, introduces staleness; (3) Background sync + local store, most resilient, adds sync complexity. Recommend based on call cost, rate limits, and freshness needs.
Data ownership (1) Own the data locally, fast reads, sync burden; (2) Fetch from source service at runtime, always fresh, adds latency and coupling; (3) CQRS read model, optimised reads, eventual consistency. Recommend based on read frequency and staleness tolerance.
Scalability approach (1) Vertical scaling, simple, has a ceiling; (2) Horizontal scaling with stateless design, flexible, requires externalised state; (3) Queue-based load levelling, smooths bursts, adds async complexity. Recommend based on bottleneck type (read/write/compute).

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 11d ago First seen · 197 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A ad82dc447e08

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backend-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository pranav8494/team-of-agents (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,974 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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