designing-backend

A skill for planning backend software, including application programming interfaces, data storage models, and system structure. It chooses a small design for simple work and a more detailed architecture for complex systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning an API, data model, backend architecture, or other server-side system. It can produce a concise specification or several architecture documents based on the scope.
Why use it?
It helps turn backend requirements into focused design documents without adding unnecessary parts. It also separates basic data processing from larger, multi-part systems.

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/qte77/claude-code-plugins/designing-backend
Any agent
npx skills add qte77/claude-code-plugins --skill designing-backend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qte77/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 374 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 $0.00037 $0.00374
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8b1803f00207, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

designing-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.

plugins/backend-design/skills/designing-backend/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Git Context

  • Recent changes: !git log --oneline -3
  • Current branch: !git branch --show-current

Backend Architecture

Target: $ARGUMENTS

Creates focused, streamlined backend system designs matching stated requirements exactly. No over-engineering.

Workflow

  1. Read backend requirements from specified documents
  2. Validate scope - Simple data processing vs Complex system architecture
  3. Design minimal solution matching stated complexity
  4. Create focused deliverables - single doc for simple, multiple for complex
  5. Use make recipes for all commands

Architecture Strategy

Simple Processing: Basic functions, lightweight integration, existing patterns Complex Systems: Multi-tiered pipelines, PydanticAI orchestration, async patterns Performance targets: <1s simple operations, scalable for complex systems

Output Standards

Simple Tasks: Single focused backend specification Complex Tasks: Multiple targeted architecture files All outputs: Concise, streamlined, no unnecessary complexity

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 · 46 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 8b1803f00207

Subscribe to this mod's changes

designing-backend is a skill published in the GitHub repository qte77/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 374 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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