backend-patterns

A collection of server-side patterns for Node.js, Express, and Next.js API routes. It covers backend structure, API design, database performance, and general server practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing Node.js and Express backends or Next.js API routes, especially their architecture, APIs, and database queries.
Why use it?
It helps organize backend code and address common concerns around APIs, databases, and server logic. The guidance is specific to these JavaScript environments.

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/venthezone/pi-dots/backend-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add VenTheZone/pi-dots --skill backend-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VenTheZone/pi-dots

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,327 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00031 $0.03327
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01664
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00333

Measured 3d ago against content hash f4944cc2a64b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-patterns scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

const requests = this.requests.get(identifier) || []
pi-dotfiles-niche-skills/skills/backend-patterns/SKILL.md · 598 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 598 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A f4944cc2a64b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository VenTheZone/pi-dots (43 stars, last pushed 25d ago), with no licence file. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 3,327 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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