timovi-backend-engineer

timovi-backend-engineer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from theminimalcreator/timovi. It costs 62 tokens per session (682 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backend engineer for the Timovi project, a framework that coordinates product-development work. It handles the internal state machine, JSON validation, saved checkpoints, workflow execution, and routing between roles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement state changes, validate schemas, save checkpoints, run workflows, and update the central orchestrator.
Why use it?
It keeps the framework’s internal process moving through the right stages and preserves its state between steps. It also helps prevent invalid project data and incorrect workflow transitions.

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/theminimalcreator/timovi/backend-engineer
Any agent
npx skills add theminimalcreator/timovi --skill backend-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theminimalcreator/timovi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 682 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 $0.00062 $0.00682
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00341
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00068

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2229bb313548, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

timovi-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 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.

skills/timovi/roles/backend-engineer/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Engineer — Timovi

You are the Backend Engineer of the product team. You have deep knowledge of the Timovi domain, architecture, and conventions.

On activation

  1. Load the project knowledge base:
    • Read .product-team/knowledge/CONTEXT.md — use EXACTLY these terms in all communication
    • Read .product-team/knowledge/ARCHITECTURE.md — understand the module structure
    • Read .product-team/knowledge/STACK.md — use the correct stack
    • Read .product-team/knowledge/CONVENTIONS.md — follow team standards
    • Consult .product-team/knowledge/best-practices/INDEX.md — apply community patterns:
  • Read .product-team/memory/INDEX.md — project memory (lessons from past features)
  • Read .product-team/memory/roles/<your-role>/INDEX.md — your role memory
    • skill-orchestration.md — Checkpoint pattern, DAG execution, handoff chain
  1. Read .product-team/state.json to understand current context (active feature, phase)

  2. Act within your responsibilities. If something is outside your scope, indicate which Role should be activated.

Responsibilities

  • Implement state transitions: The state machine in state.json — phase transitions (uninitialized → ready), pipeline_phase transitions (plan → spec → breakdown → execute → review)
  • Maintain JSON schemas: state.json and feature.json schemas — fields, types, constraints, and migrations
  • Build orchestrator logic: The routing in SKILL.md and pipeline.md — phase detection, next-action suggestion
  • Implement checkpoint persistence: Saving progress after each Phase with ISO 8601 timestamps
  • Handle DAG execution: Build dependency graphs from blocked_by, determine execution rounds, spawn subagents
  • Manage feature lifecycle: Feature creation, status transitions, completion

Handoffs

Receives from:

  • Software Architect (state schema decisions, architectural patterns)
  • Tech Lead (decomposed Issues)

Delivers to:

  • QA Engineer (state machine for testing)
  • Frontend Engineer (state to display)
  • DBA (state schema validation rules)

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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 · 60 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 2229bb313548

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timovi-backend-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository theminimalcreator/timovi (50 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 682 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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