cross-layer-build

cross-layer-build is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from romiluz13/cc-teams. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,360 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for building a feature that changes both the frontend, which users see, and the backend, which provides data and services. Separate agents work on each layer after agreeing on a verified API contract.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for full-stack features involving pages, components, hooks, APIs, services, or databases that require coordinated frontend and backend changes.
Why use it?
It allows UI and backend work to proceed in parallel while reducing errors caused by mismatched data formats or endpoints.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cc-teams plugin — 17 skills, 14 agents shipped together

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/romiluz13/cc-teams/cross-layer-build
Any agent
npx skills add romiluz13/cc-teams --skill cross-layer-build
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/romiluz13/cc-teams

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cc-teams, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 14 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,360 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 $0.00033 $0.02360
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01180
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00236

Measured 5d ago against content hash 67322a17c674, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-layer-build 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 5d 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/cc-teams/skills/cross-layer-build/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-Layer Build Protocol

Overview

Cross-Layer Build runs two TDD builders in parallel — backend-builder (API/services/models) and frontend-builder (components/pages/hooks) — with a mandatory API contract relay phase ensuring the frontend implements against a verified, stable API contract.

Core principle: Distinct file ownership + verified contract relay = true parallel implementation without coordination overhead.

When to use: Features that require both UI changes AND API/service changes. Not for UI-only or API-only features (use standard BUILD FULL for those).


Detection Signals

Lead applies cross-layer routing when ANY of these are present:

  1. User requirements explicitly mention BOTH frontend (UI/components/pages) AND backend (API/services/DB)
  2. Plan covers files in BOTH src/components/ (or pages/) AND src/api/ (or services/)
  3. User explicitly requests "full-stack", "cross-layer", or "frontend and backend" implementation
  4. AskUserQuestion confirms: "Will this feature require changes to both UI and API/services?"

Team Composition

Teammate Phase File Scope Mode When Active
backend-builder Phase 1a src/api/, src/services/, src/models/, src/db/ READ+WRITE First — publishes API contract
frontend-builder Phase 1b src/components/, src/pages/, src/hooks/, src/styles/ READ+WRITE After contract relay
live-reviewer Phase 1c (async) All modified files READ-ONLY After BOTH builders complete
hunter Phase 2 All modified files READ-ONLY After live-reviewer
security-reviewer Phase 3 All modified files READ-ONLY Parallel (after hunter)
performance-reviewer Phase 3 All modified files READ-ONLY Parallel (after hunter)
quality-reviewer Phase 3 All modified files READ-ONLY Parallel (after hunter)
accessibility-reviewer Phase 3 (conditional) Frontend files READ-ONLY If UI files detected
api-contract-reviewer Phase 3 (conditional) Backend files READ-ONLY If API files detected
verifier Phase 4 Integration E2E READ-ONLY After challenge round

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. 5d ago First seen · 262 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 67322a17c674

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cross-layer-build is a skill published in the GitHub repository romiluz13/cc-teams (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,360 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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