Backend and APIs skills

12,513 tagged Backend and APIs, measured the same way as everything else here.

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trycatch

721

GitRavz/TryCatch

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when asked to check, audit, or review a web application's security, authentication, permissions, access control, error handling, API/endpoint surface, or database management — including "is my app secure", "check my auth", "review my permissions", "find vulnerabilities", or a pre-launch/pre-handover review.

not rated 2 1mo ago A 68 tokens original MIT

x402-server

722

Dexter-DAO/opendexter-ide

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Add x402 payment protection to any API endpoint using @dexterai/x402/server. Trigger when the user wants to monetize an API, add a paywall, accept crypto payments on their server, set up Stripe settlement, configure dynamic pricing, create access passes, or enable sponsored access (ads for agents).

not rated 2 8d ago A 66 tokens original MIT

alexei-led/architect

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Assess coupling with the Balanced Coupling model (integration strength, distance, volatility). Use when judging whether coupling is balanced or risky, scoring the couplingbalance dimension, or deciding what to flag as structural risk. Highest risk is high strength + high distance + high volatility together. NOT…

not rated 2 1mo ago A 94 tokens original MIT

using-firebase

724

SpillwaveSolutions/using-firebase

Skill Claude Code

Comprehensive Firebase development guidance for GCP-hosted applications. Covers Firestore database operations (CRUD, queries, transactions, data modeling), Cloud Functions (1st and 2nd generation, TypeScript and Python, all trigger types), Firebase CLI operations, emulator setup and data persistence, security rules…

not rated 2 8mo ago A 194 tokens

omeka-s

725

szweibel/claude-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Expert Omeka S developer assistant for Docker-based installations. Covers theme development (SCSS/CSS, templates), module creation (PHP, events, database), configuration management, and troubleshooting. Use for Omeka S customization from simple CSS tweaks to advanced module development.

not rated 2 yesterday A 56 tokens

africastalking-sms

726

oquidave/production-ready-agent-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Send an SMS via the Africa's Talking SMS API. Use whenever the user wants to send a text message, alert, OTP, notification, "send SMS to ", or any phrasing that involves delivering a short message to a mobile phone in Africa. The skill posts to Africa's Talking's REST endpoint and returns the delivery status.

not rated 2 4mo ago A 75 tokens

api

727

outboundsync/skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Guide agents through the OutboundSync API v1: auth, scopes, Sources vs destinations vs Sync Monitoring Webhooks vocabulary, discovery, and which specialized skill to run. Use when the user asks how to use the OutboundSync API, what their API key can access, which endpoint to call, OpenAPI discovery, account vs…

not rated 2 changed 8d ago A 121 tokens original MIT

litd-grpc

728

HannahMR/lightning-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Reference for litd (Lightning Terminal) gRPC API in Go: managing accounts, baking macaroons, listing payments, and creating LNC sessions.

not rated 2 3mo ago A 36 tokens

modelbase-fsm

729

grasscaograss/AwesomeWeldoneSkills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

A reference guide to the ModelBase finite-state machine, a program structure that moves through named states when events occur. It documents the states, transitions, workflow data, services, and execution flow for the system.

not rated 2 2mo ago A 87 tokens original Apache-2.0

clarify-api

730

clarifyhq/skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Guidelines for working with the Clarify CRM API - includes authentication, endpoints, pagination, filtering, and CRUD operations for records.

not rated 2 5mo ago A 29 tokens

api-design

731

erphq/skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

This skill should be used when the task involves design and manage ERP APIs -- use when building REST endpoints, versioning strategies, rate limiting, webhook systems, error handling, and developer experience for enterprise platform APIs.

not rated 2 23d ago A 45 tokens original MIT

review-external-api

732

alifpay/skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Review backend code that integrates with external/third-party APIs (payment providers, banks, KYC, card networks, crypto exchanges, SMS/OTP, any outbound HTTP/gRPC to a system you do not own). Checks planning of failure modes, idempotency, timeout and retry strategy, response code classification, duplicate-transaction…

not rated 2 4mo ago A 243 tokens

snippe-integration

733

Neurotech-HQ/skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Build integrations with Snippe (api.snippe.sh), a Tanzania payment processing API. Use this skill whenever the user mentions Snippe, is working on payment integrations for Tanzania (mobile money via M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Mixx by Yas, Halotel; credit/debit cards via Visa/Mastercard; dynamic QR codes), needs to accept…

not rated 2 5mo ago A 158 tokens original MIT

auth-implementation

734

sattva2020/skills

Skill Claude Code

Implement authentication and authorization in web applications. Use when adding login, signup, sessions, JWT tokens, OAuth, SSO, API key auth, role-based access control (RBAC), permissions, protected routes, middleware guards, password hashing, MFA/2FA, refresh token rotation, CSRF protection, or integrating auth…

not rated 2 1mo ago A 136 tokens

inkbox-python

735

VectorlyApp/skills

Skill Claude Code

Use when writing Python code that imports from inkbox, uses pip install inkbox, or when adding email, phone, or agent identity features using the Inkbox Python SDK.

not rated 2 6mo ago A 41 tokens

nestjs-best-practices

736

Ahmustufa/nestjs-best-practices-skill

Skill Claude CodeCodex

NestJS expert best practices for writing, reviewing, or refactoring NestJS code. Triggers on tasks involving NestJS modules, controllers, services, DTOs, guards, interceptors, TypeORM entities, authentication, configuration, or performance patterns.

not rated 2 5mo ago A 56 tokens

claude-api

737

turf0909/sleep-code

Skill Claude CodeCodex

You are an expert at building applications with the Anthropic Claude API. Help the user write correct, idiomatic code using the latest API patterns and SDK conventions.

not rated 2 4mo ago A 0 tokens

claude-api

738

huangzida/skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Build, debug, and optimize Claude API / Anthropic SDK apps. Apps built with this skill should include prompt caching. Also handles migrating existing Claude API code between Claude model versions (4.5 → 4.6, 4.6 → 4.7, retired-model replacements). TRIGGER when: code imports anthropic/@anthropic-ai/sdk; user asks for…

not rated 2 3mo ago A 193 tokens

api-pattern-node

739

MCKRUZ/intent-driven-development

Skill Claude Code

Add a new endpoint / route / use case / service the way this Node + TypeScript codebase already does it. Use when building an API surface, a request handler, a validator, a port/adapter, or a container registration in a Node/TypeScript repo. Finds the one canonical example and mirrors its layering, validation, error…

not rated 2 15d ago A 108 tokens

goperigon/skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Best practices for building with the Perigon News Intelligence API. Use this skill when searching or filtering news articles, tracking evolving stories, generating AI-powered summaries, performing semantic vector search over news or Wikipedia, querying people, companies, journalists, or sources databases, or…

not rated 2 6mo ago A 70 tokens original Apache-2.0

api-error-handler

741

luqiang-code/claude-code-skills

Skill Claude Code

Add consistent error handling to API routes. Creates standardized error responses, logging, and error classes. Triggers on "add error handling", "error handling", "standardize errors".

not rated 2 3mo ago A 40 tokens original MIT

api-scaffold

742

xmqywx/claude-code-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Scaffold a production-ready REST API endpoint with CRUD operations, input validation, error handling, rate limiting, and test skeletons. Supports Express and Fastify.

not rated 2 5mo ago A 36 tokens

django

743

Mariatta/claude-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

House conventions for writing code in a Django codebase: formatter and linter compliance (black, isort, djlint, flake8), imports at module top with real refactors for circular imports, docstrings over comment blocks, maintained libraries over hand-rolled code, full test coverage as a merge gate, N+1 queries caught at…

not rated 2 29d ago A 210 tokens original MIT

skills

744

bybit-exchange/pay-docs

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Skill "skills" from bybit-exchange/pay-docs, covering bybit pay — ai integration skill, products overview, authentication (both products), required headers and signature construction.

not rated 2 3d ago A 0 tokens

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