Engineering

Backend

engineering/skills/backend

Backend engineering skill for APIs, services, schemas, persistence, and server-side operational work.

Use for backend engineering work such as APIs, services, data models, persistence, queues, caching, auth, background jobs, and server-side debugging or refactors.

Install This Skill

This skill now lives in the engineering department plugin, so every command targets the department-scoped path instead of the old flat skills/ layout.

Vercel `npx skills`

npx -y skills add ./engineering/skills/backend

Portable single-skill install. Use the department root to install the full plugin as skills.

Codex manual install

mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
cp -R engineering/skills/backend ~/.codex/skills/

Copies only this skill into Codex from the new department-scoped repo layout.

Codex `$skill-installer`

https://github.com/alvarovillalbaa/plugins/tree/main/engineering/skills/backend

Direct GitHub path for Codex skill-installer or any runtime that installs from a skill folder URL.

OpenClaw manual install

mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills
cp -R engineering/skills/backend ~/.openclaw/skills/

Useful when OpenClaw should load one skill without importing the whole department.

Repo source

https://github.com/alvarovillalbaa/plugins/tree/main/engineering/skills/backend

Browse the live source, references, examples, templates, and scripts directly.

Department plugin

engineering

What it does

Backend engineering skill for APIs, services, schemas, persistence, and server-side operational work.

How it works

Pair with [`../agentic-development/SKILL.md`](../agentic-development/SKILL.md) for repo orientation, proof planning, and execution-mode selection.
Map the authoritative backend path before editing: endpoint, serializer/validator, service, job, model, schema, queue consumer, or migration owner.
Confirm contracts first: request/response shape, auth, persistence, failure modes, and observability.