Best Claude skills for backend development
Backend skills teach API design, database schemas, migrations, auth and the boring-but-critical parts like idempotency and error handling. Vendor skills from Supabase and Stripe carry first-party knowledge about their platforms that generic models often get wrong.
288 backend skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
- 1#1
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropic
MCP Builder
Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to…
Pack192k3.8MScore 93 - 2#2
affaan-m
Backend Patterns
Backend architecture patterns, API design, database optimization, and server-side best practices for Node.js, Express, and Next.js API routes. Use when building or reviewing Node.js…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89 - 3#3
Addy Osmani
API And Interface Design
Guides stable API and interface design. Use when designing APIs, module boundaries, or any public interface. Use when creating REST or GraphQL endpoints, defining type contracts between…
Pack115k1.8MScore 85 - 4#4
wshobson
Agents
wshobson
Architecture Patterns
Implement proven backend architecture patterns including Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design. Use this skill when designing clean architecture for a new…
Pack42k2.6MScore 85 - 5#5
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
GitHub
Arize Annotation
Creates and manages annotation configs (categorical, continuous, freeform label schemas) and annotation queues (human review workflows) on Arize. Applies human annotations to project spans…
Pack41k2.4MScore 85 - 6#6
wshobson
Agents
API Design Principles
Master REST and GraphQL API design principles to build intuitive, scalable, and maintainable APIs that delight developers. Use when designing new APIs, reviewing API specifications, or…
Pack42k2.6MScore 84 - 7#7
wshobson
Agents
Saga Orchestration
Implement saga patterns for distributed transactions and cross-aggregate workflows. Use this skill when implementing distributed transactions across microservices where 2PC is unavailable…
Pack42k2.6MScore 84 - 8#8
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
API Breaking Change Detector
Cross-references C# Web API controllers/DTOs against their TypeScript/JavaScript consumers (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Node.js, or hand-written/auto-generated HTTP clients like Fetch…
Pack41k2.4MScore 83 - 9#9
Shubhamsaboo
MCP Apps Builder
**MANDATORY for ALL MCP server work** - mcp-use framework best practices and patterns. **READ THIS FIRST** before any MCP server work, including: - Creating new MCP servers - Modifying…
Pack144k83kScore 83 - 10#10
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Dense
Database Lookup
Queries documented public database APIs with explicit endpoints, filters, pagination, and provenance. Used when a scientific, regulatory, financial, or other database-backed fact must be…
Pack57k328kScore 82
What makes a great backend skill.
Official vendor skills for the services you use (Supabase, Stripe, Cloudflare).
Migration and rollback guidance, not only happy-path code.
Security defaults: row-level security, secrets handling, input validation.
All 288 backend skills.
rmyndharis
Antigravity Skills
rmyndharisbackend-architect
Expert backend architect specializing in scalable API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems. Masters REST/GraphQL/gRPC APIs, event-driven architectures, service mesh…
rmyndharis
Antigravity Skills
rmyndharisbackend-development-feature-development
Orchestrate end-to-end backend feature development from requirements to deployment. Use when coordinating multi-phase feature delivery across teams and services.
rmyndharis
Antigravity Skills
rmyndharisbackend-security-coder
Expert in secure backend coding practices specializing in input validation, authentication, and API security. Use for backend security implementations or security code reviews.
Jakeschincariol
Replica Skill
Jakeschincariolreplica-architect
Plans the stack, database schema and API for an app clone, from the recon map replica-recon wrote. Picks boring, managed tech, turns the inferred data model into real SQL with indexes and…
Jakeschincariol
Replica Skill
Jakeschincariolreplica-backend
Builds the backend of an app clone: auth, database migrations and access rules, payments with Stripe, email, background jobs and third-party integrations through official APIs only, plus a…
briiirussell
Cybersecurity Skills
briiirussellapi-audit
Audit REST, GraphQL, and RPC APIs against the OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023). Use when the user mentions 'API security,' 'API audit,' 'BOLA,' 'broken object level authorization,' 'BFLA,'…
dpearson2699
Swift IOS Skills
dpearson2699authentication
Implement iOS authentication flows with AuthenticationServices and LocalAuthentication. Use when building Sign in with Apple, passkey/WebAuthn registration or sign-in with…
kajisho5building-python-mcp-servers
Builds robust Python MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers with FastMCP — tool design, error contracts, event-loop-safe blocking work, subprocess/CLI wrapping, single-file vs packaged…
kajisho5ci-pipeline-synthesizer
Generate GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline configurations for automated building and testing of library and package projects. Use when creating or updating CI workflows for npm packages, Python…
Microsoft
Skills For Fabric
Microsoftdatabasehub-cli
Analyzes Database Hub inventory, health, and security posture through Entra-authenticated Fabric APIs. Use for estate counts; SQL/PostgreSQL CPU, storage, and memory; Cosmos DB…
briiirussell
Cybersecurity Skills
briiirussellfuzzing-harness
Write and run a fuzzer, fuzz harnesses and property-based tests for the code that handles untrusted bytes (file and packet parsers in C, C++, Rust, Go, Python or JS, decoders, serializers…
briiirussell
Cybersecurity Skills
briiirussellnative-code-review
Review C, C++ and Rust source for memory-safety bugs: out-of-bounds reads and writes, integer overflow or truncation that feeds a size, use-after-free and double free, format strings…
PleasePromptonotebooklm
Use this skill to query your Google NotebookLM notebooks directly from Claude Code for source-grounded, citation-backed answers from Gemini. Browser automation, library management…
kajisho5shipping-build-artifacts
Make the build step a real gate on what you actually distribute — build scripts that warn and exit 0 on a missing input, size checks with only an upper bound, hand-maintained file lists…
Microsoft
Skills For Fabric
Microsoftsqldb-cli
Manages a Fabric SQL database item, the OLTP SQL Server engine, including running T-SQL through sqlcmd, temporal and vector similarity search, schema and sys.tables inspection, dacpac…
Aaronontheweb
Dotnet Skills
Aarononthewebakka-net-aspire-configuration
Configure Akka.NET with .NET Aspire for local development and production deployments. Covers actor system setup, clustering, persistence, Akka.Management integration, and Aspire…
Aaronontheweb
Dotnet Skills
Aarononthewebakka-net-best-practices
Critical Akka.NET best practices including EventStream vs DistributedPubSub, supervision strategies, error handling, Props vs DependencyResolver, work distribution patterns, and…
Aaronontheweb
Dotnet Skills
Aarononthewebakka-net-management
Akka.Management for cluster bootstrapping, service discovery (Kubernetes, Azure, Config), health checks, and dynamic cluster formation without static seed nodes.
Microsoft
Power Platform Skills
Microsoftconfigure-canvas-mcp
Configure the Canvas Authoring MCP server for the current coauthoring session. Use before starting to edit a canvas app with the /canvas-app skill if not already connected. USE WHEN…
databricks
Databricks Agent Skills
databricksdatabricks-apps-python
Python backend for Databricks Apps — FastAPI (default), Flask, Dash, Streamlit, Gradio, Reflex. **Default for a new Databricks App is `databricks-apps` (AppKit — Node/TypeScript/React) —…
product-on-purpose
Pm Skills
product-on-purposedeliver-launch-checklist
Creates a cross-functional pre-launch checklist covering engineering, design, marketing, support, legal, and operations readiness, with owners, dates, and go/no-go criteria so nothing is…
Microsoft
Power Platform Skills
Microsoftgenerate-codeful-mcp-tool
Generate a self-contained JavaScript server runtime and registration metadata for an MCP codeful tool. Use when the user asks to create a codeful MCP tool, generate server logic for an MCP…
zhinkgit
Embeddedskills
zhinkgitopenocd
OpenOCD 下载与调试工具，用于探针探测、固件烧录、Flash 擦除、GDB Server 启动、目标复位控制、 Telnet 在线调试（halt/resume/step/寄存器/内存/断点）、GDB 源码级调试，以及 Semihosting/ITM 输出捕获和底层查询。 当用户提到 OpenOCD、ST-Link、CMSIS-DAP…
Docker
Skills
Dockerdocker-agent-deploy
Use this skill when exposing a Docker Agent as a server (MCP, HTTP API, A2A, ACP, or OpenAI-compatible chat), distributing an agent via an OCI registry with `docker agent share`, or…
davidondrej
Skills
davidondrejgithub-outside-sandbox
Run Git and GitHub CLI commands on the host when sandboxing blocks Keychain auth, network access, or .git writes. Use for gh auth, repo/PR operations, index.lock, or permission errors…
levnikolaevich
Claude Code Skills
levnikolaevichln-94-authentication-engineer
Implements or repairs identity verification and session or credential lifecycle; not operation permissions, resource access policy or a new identity provider by default.
levnikolaevich
Claude Code Skills
levnikolaevichln-99-database-lifecycle-engineer
Prepares and verifies schema migrations, database roles and isolated recovery or test resources; not query tuning or runtime mutation orchestration.
aiskillstore
Marketplace
aiskillstoremcp-builder
Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to…
hashicorp
Agent Skills
hashicorpnew-terraform-provider
Use this when scaffolding a new Terraform provider with the Plugin Framework: workspace layout, go module setup, provider server main.go, and a provider.go with schema and Configure. Also…
nexscope-aiamazon-backend-keywords
Amazon backend search term optimization and strategy. 250-byte limit management, keyword deduplication, prioritization frameworks, and search visibility optimization. Use when the user asks…
petrkindlmannapi-testing
Test REST and GraphQL APIs with Playwright APIRequestContext, Supertest, or standalone HTTP clients. Covers schema validation with Zod 4/AJV, auth flow testing, CRUD lifecycle tests, error…
petrkindlmanndatabase-testing
Validate database integrity, test migrations forward and backward, verify schema constraints, manage seed data, detect migration drift, and identify query performance issues. Covers…
databricks
Databricks Agent Skills
databricksdatabricks-core
Databricks CLI operations and the parent/entry-point skill for Databricks CLI use: authentication, profile selection, and bundles. Load this first for CLI, auth, profile, and bundle tasks…
databricks
Databricks Agent Skills
databricksdatabricks-lakebase
Databricks Lakebase Postgres: projects, scaling, connectivity, Lakebase synced tables, and Data API. Use when asked about Lakebase databases, OLTP storage, or connecting apps to Postgres on…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88ozu-screenplay-style
Writing screenplays in the style of Ozu Yasujiro and Noda Kogo (小津安二郎・野田高梧) — distilled from six complete screenplays (晚春 Late Spring, 麦秋 Early Summer, 东京物语 Tokyo Story, 浮草 Floating Weeds…
Corey Haines
Makerskills
Corey Hainestoolify
When you want to integrate an external tool, API, MCP server, or service into a project — the wizard walks you through auth, config, env vars, client wrapper code, example usage, and an…
Backend skills, explained.
Also searched as: backend agent skills, api design skill, database skill, supabase skill.
What are the best Claude skills for backend development?
Right now the top-ranked backend skills on Alyn are MCP Builder (Anthropic), Backend Patterns (affaan-m), API And Interface Design (Addy Osmani). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
Is there an official Supabase skill?
Yes. supabase/agent-skills is published by Supabase and ranks among the most installed backend skills.
Skills or MCP for databases?
Use both. An MCP server gives the agent access to your database. A skill teaches it how to use that access well.
How do I install a backend skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.
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