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Best backend and API skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills for server-side work: API design, authentication, webhooks, queues, caching, payments and integrations with third-party services.
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Guides the design and implementation of Model Context Protocol servers in TypeScript or Python, from tool naming and error messages to evaluation.

anthropics/skills180k62 repos~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.02 days ago
2

A skill your agent uses whenever the user mentions Horizon by name in a Laravel context.

coollabsio/coolify63k4 repos~898Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
3

Hardens code against vulnerabilities. An agent skill from penpot/penpot.

penpot/penpot61k6 repos~4.7kAutomated safety check: NotesMPL-2.0today
4

NestJS best practices and architecture patterns for building production-ready applications.

rolling-scopes/rsschool-app10k6 repos~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
5

Manages a Sub2API deployment from the command line: accounts, redeem and invitation codes, groups, proxies, imports, exports and raw admin API calls.

Wei-Shaw/sub2api43k1 repo~717Automated safety check: PassLGPL-3.0today
6

Gets Firecrawl working in a project: signs you in through the browser, saves FIRECRAWL_API_KEY to .env and picks the first SDK or REST path.

firecrawl/firecrawl189k1 repo~1.4kAutomated safety check: NotesISCtoday
7

Walks through building MCP servers in Python or TypeScript that expose tools, resources and prompts to Claude, with templates, registration and testing.

shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code78k5 repos~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT9 days ago
8

Create and edit Obsidian Bases (.base files) with views, filters, formulas, and summaries.

Atmosphere/atmosphere3.8k22 repos~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
9

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior.

xpinjection/test-driven-spring-boot11254 repos~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
10

Explains how to bundle Model Context Protocol servers in a Claude Code plugin, covering config files, stdio, SSE, HTTP and WebSocket server types, and authentication.

anthropics/claude-plugins-official37k11 repos~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
11

ACTIVATE when the user works on authentication in Laravel. An agent skill from coollabsio/coolify.

coollabsio/coolify63k4 repos~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
12

A skill your agent uses for Laravel MCP development. An agent skill from coollabsio/coolify.

coollabsio/coolify63k1 repo~949Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
13

Adds Firecrawl's /scrape endpoint to application code to pull markdown, HTML, links, screenshots or structured data from a single known URL.

firecrawl/firecrawl189k1 repo~944Automated safety check: PassISCtoday
14

Adds web search, scraping, structured extraction and browser interaction to application code using Firecrawl's scrape, search and interact endpoints.

firecrawl/firecrawl189k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: NotesISCtoday
15

A skill your agent uses when creating new agent skills or improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable, scannable, and effective through proper structure, discovery optimization, and…

NangoHQ/nango13k3 repos~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
16

Turns an API description, such as an OpenAPI file or a Postman collection, into a connector plugin for ToolJet's marketplace and checks it with the repo's validator.

ToolJet/ToolJet41k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
17

General Supabase skill for database, auth, Edge Functions, Realtime and storage work, plus client libraries, migrations, security audits, debugging and reading logs.

supabase/agent-skills2.7k3 repos~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 days ago
18

Reviews backend code under api/ for concrete, reproducible defects, routes to rule packs for architecture, schema, repositories and SQLAlchemy, and ranks findings from P0 to P3.

langgenius/dify158k—~676Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
19

A skill your agent uses when implementing or debugging ANY network request, API call, or data fetching.

CherryHQ/cherry-studio-app4k6 repos~2.9kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT4 days ago
20

Find, evaluate, and download common purchasable CAD parts from step.parts, including named off-the-shelf actuators, servos, motors, electronics boards, connectors, screws, bolts, nuts, washers…

earthtojake/text-to-cad18k1 repo~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
21

Guides adding Firecrawl's /interact endpoint to product code for pages that need clicks, forms, pagination or logged-in flows beyond plain scraping.

firecrawl/firecrawl189k1 repo~731Automated safety check: PassISCtoday
22

Sets layered architecture and coding rules for Node.js, Express and TypeScript microservices, covering routes, controllers, services, repositories, Prisma, Sentry and Zod.

diet103/claude-code-infrastructure-showcase10k2 repos~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
23

Designs REST and GraphQL APIs from resource modeling to an OpenAPI 3.1 contract, with versioning, pagination and RFC 7807 error handling.

Jeffallan/claude-skills12k2 repos~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
24

Drives headless Chrome through Cloudflare Browser Rendering over a CDP WebSocket to take screenshots, navigate and scrape pages, and record multi-page videos.

cloudflare/moltworker9.9k—~742Automated safety check: PassApache-2.05 mo ago
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Apply this skill whenever writing, reviewing, or refactoring Laravel PHP code.

anonaddy/anonaddy4.9k13 repos~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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26.Turnstile SpinOfficial

Set up, repair, or migrate to Cloudflare Turnstile bot verification in an existing frontend and backend, including server-side Siteverify.

cloudflare/skills3k4 repos~7.2kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.06 days ago
27

Guidance for adding Firecrawl's /search endpoint to product code and agent workflows when a feature starts from a query rather than a URL.

firecrawl/firecrawl189k1 repo~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassISCtoday
28

Guides changes to an existing Twenty app: adding or editing objects, layouts, logic functions and front components, with a plan stated before multi-entity edits.

twentyhq/twenty58k—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
29

Interact with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more.

Atmosphere/atmosphere3.8k13 repos~795Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
30

Build, refactor, and troubleshoot Laravel Actions using lorisleiva/laravel-actions.

coollabsio/coolify63k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
31

Interact with the Paperclip control plane API for task coordination and governance.

paperclipai/paperclip98k—~9.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
32

Comprehensive guide for implementing NetworkPolicy, PodSecurityPolicy, RBAC, and Pod Security Standards in Kubernetes.

Cybereason-Public/owLSM28011 repos~2kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-2.0yesterday
33

This skill should be used when the user is writing Go code and needs guidance on Go-specific pedantry: error wrapping with fmt.Errorf and %w, interface design (accept interfaces return structs)…

chromedp/chromedp13k—~3.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
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Enforces that every error in a service is captured to Sentry v8, with patterns for controllers, routes, cron jobs and database performance spans instead of console logging alone.

diet103/claude-code-infrastructure-showcase10k2 repos~2.3kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT2 mo ago
35

Execute read-only Ruby/Rails commands against Gumroad's production database for debugging and investigation.

antiwork/gumroad9.8k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
36

Build production-ready Node.js backend services with Express/Fastify, implementing middleware patterns, error handling, authentication, database integration, and API design best practices.

ever-works/ever-works15817 repos~4kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.02 days ago
37

Turns an OpenAPI or Swagger spec into an MCP server with the mcp-use TypeScript SDK, mapping each operation to a tool, wiring auth, testing and deploying.

mcp-use/mcp-use11k—~5.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
38

Sets the backend TypeScript and Cloud VM rules for cmux: Effect-based services, thin route handlers, Postgres as source of truth, migrations and provider secrets.

manaflow-ai/cmux28k1 repo~682Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
39

A skill your agent uses when the user mentions Yaak, a Yaak workspace, or the yaak command, or asks to call, hit, or smoke test HTTP/REST endpoints, save or organize API requests for reuse or manual…

mountain-loop/yaak19k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
40

Reference help for the CCXT library covering crypto exchange APIs, market data, trading and order management across 150+ exchanges in JavaScript, Python and PHP.

2025Emma/vibe-coding-cn23k2 repos~4.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT9 mo ago
41

A skill your agent uses when working with Payload projects (payload.config.ts, collections, fields, hooks, access control, Payload API).

payloadcms/payload45k5 repos~6.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
42

A skill your agent uses when adding authentication, handling user input, working with secrets, creating API endpoints, or implementing payment/sensitive features.

jewbetcha/opentrace11617 repos~3.1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT4 mo ago
43

Read and update global application settings: system prompts, thinking budget, IP filters, payload rules, combo defaults, and require-login…

diegosouzapw/OmniRoute74k1 repo~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
44

A skill your agent uses to analyze how a Laravel application is actually written and record its conventions as shared rules.

anonaddy/anonaddy4.9k5 repos~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
45

Configure Better Auth server and client, set up database adapters, manage sessions, add plugins, and handle environment variables.

latitude-dev/latitude-llm4.7k7 repos~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
46

Creates and queries KubeSphere users, workspaces and projects and assigns built-in roles, defaulting to least privilege and never deleting anything.

kubesphere/kubesphere17k—~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown2 mo ago
47

Guides building, debugging and testing LangBot plugins: components, SDK calls, README and locale rules, SDK pitfalls and WebSocket-based testing.

langbot-app/LangBot18k—~3.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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Crosspost Wasp blog articles (MDX) to DEV.to and Medium. An agent skill from wasp-lang/wasp.

wasp-lang/wasp19k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best backend and API skill?

MCP Server Builder (official) from anthropics/skills ranks first of the 6,424 backend and API skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 180k GitHub stars, 62 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2.3k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Configuring Horizon and Security And Hardening.

Which backend and API skills are official?

471 of the 6,424 backend and API skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: MCP Server Builder, MCP Integration for Plugins, Supabase Development and Debugging, Cloudflare Browser Rendering, Turnstile Spin and 466 more.

How are these skills ranked?

By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.