What is backend-development?

A guide for building and changing server-side software, including APIs, authentication, databases, caching, security, testing, deployment, monitoring, and debugging. It recommends technologies according to the type of backend work.

Use it for REST, GraphQL, or gRPC services; login and permissions; database design and queries; caching; security fixes; automated tests; CI/CD; and production monitoring.

It provides a structured way to make backend changes while considering security, performance, data consistency, and testing. It also helps choose suitable languages, frameworks, databases, and API styles.

backend-development — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by tamnguyendinh

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 tamnguyendinh/Anvien --skill backend-development

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tamnguyendinh/Anvien

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 919 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00015	$0.00919
Opus 5	$0.00008	$0.00460
Sonnet 5	$0.00003	$0.00184
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00092

Measured 9d ago against content hash 11f4e820c3de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-development 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to ck:backend-development — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

internal/aicontext/skills/backend-development/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Development Skill

Production-ready backend development with modern technologies, best practices, and proven patterns.

When to Use

Designing RESTful, GraphQL, or gRPC APIs
Building authentication/authorization systems
Optimizing database queries and schemas
Implementing caching and performance optimization
OWASP Top 10 security mitigation
Designing scalable microservices
Testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E)
CI/CD pipelines and deployment
Monitoring and debugging production systems

Technology Selection Guide

Languages: Node.js/TypeScript (full-stack), Python (data/ML), Go (concurrency), Rust (performance) Frameworks: NestJS, FastAPI, Django, Express, Gin Databases: PostgreSQL (ACID), MongoDB (flexible schema), Redis (caching) APIs: REST (simple), GraphQL (flexible), gRPC (performance)

See: references/backend-technologies.md for detailed comparisons

Core Technologies:

backend-technologies.md - Languages, frameworks, databases, message queues, ORMs
backend-api-design.md - REST, GraphQL, gRPC patterns and best practices

Security & Authentication:

backend-security.md - OWASP Top 10 2025, security best practices, input validation
backend-authentication.md - OAuth 2.1, JWT, RBAC, MFA, session management

Performance & Architecture:

backend-performance.md - Caching, query optimization, load balancing, scaling
backend-architecture.md - Microservices, event-driven, CQRS, saga patterns

Quality & Operations:

backend-testing.md - Testing strategies, frameworks, tools, CI/CD testing
backend-code-quality.md - SOLID principles, design patterns, clean code
backend-devops.md - Docker, Kubernetes, deployment strategies, monitoring
backend-debugging.md - Debugging strategies, profiling, logging, production debugging
backend-mindset.md - Problem-solving, architectural thinking, collaboration

Key Best Practices (2025)

Security: Argon2id passwords, parameterized queries (98% SQL injection reduction), OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, rate limiting, security headers

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

9d ago First seen · 96 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 11f4e820c3de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository tamnguyendinh/Anvien (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 919 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to ck:backend-development, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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