backend-development

Backend API design, database architecture, microservices patterns, and test-driven development. Use for designing APIs, database schemas, or backend system architecture.

Quality

86%

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Content

80%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A concise, actionable reference catalog of backend patterns with strong executable examples. It lacks multi-step workflows with validation and keeps everything inline rather than splitting into referenced files.

Suggestions

For destructive or batch patterns (e.g. schema migrations, cache invalidation), add a short validate/retry sequence so workflow clarity can reach 3.

Move the longer reference sections (e.g. full SQL schema, auth middleware) into separate files and link them from a concise overview in SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is a lean pattern catalog — mostly executable code with terse inline comments and no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows.	3 / 3
Actionability	Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready examples across SQL schema, TypeScript JWT middleware, cache-aside, and rate limiting, matching the anchor for fully executable guidance.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Content is organized by topic but presents no sequenced multi-step process or validation checkpoints, so it sits below the anchor requiring explicit feedback loops.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	A single ~150-line file holds all reference material inline with no signaled links to deeper files; well-sectioned but monolithic rather than progressively disclosed.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

92%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: concrete capabilities, third-person voice, and an explicit 'Use for' trigger clause. Its only weakness is a somewhat broad scope that may overlap with narrower specialized skills.

Suggestions

Tighten the 'Use for' clause to name microservices-specific triggers and drop generic cross-cutting terms like test-driven development to reduce overlap with specialized skills.

Add a couple of natural user phrasings (e.g. 'building a service', 'designing a data model') to broaden trigger coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete capabilities — 'Backend API design, database architecture, microservices patterns, and test-driven development' — matching the anchor for several specific named actions.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (the listed capabilities) and when via an explicit 'Use for ...' clause, satisfying the anchor for clearly answering both.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Trigger clause 'Use for designing APIs, database schemas, or backend system architecture' uses natural terms a user would actually say, with good coverage of the domain.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Backend is a recognizable niche but the scope is broad and includes cross-cutting items like 'test-driven development', so it could overlap with more specialized API- or database-specific skills.	2 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills
Path: skills/backend-development/SKILL.md
Commit: 039ad59

Reviewed: about 6 hours ago

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