Topic · Backend & APIs

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

Skills that build server-side applications, services and business logic in common backend stacks.
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Backend development skills, ranked
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A skill your agent uses whenever the user mentions Horizon by name in a Laravel context.

coollabsio/coolify63k4 repos~898Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
2

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
3

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

coollabsio/coolify63k4 repos~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
4

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

coollabsio/coolify63k1 repo~949Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
5

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
6

Apply this skill whenever writing, reviewing, or refactoring Laravel PHP code.

anonaddy/anonaddy4.9k13 repos~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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7.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
8

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
9

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

coollabsio/coolify63k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
10

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

antiwork/gumroad9.8k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
11

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
12

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
13

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
14

Operate/develop GEOFlow CLI/Laravel/admin/API, topics/专题 and topic tasks, theme libraries/replication, sites/leads/Agent, channel sync and legacy yao-geoflow-cli/design/template migration.

yaojingang/GEOFlow3.8k—~722Automated safety check: PassAGPL-3.06 days ago
15

Provides comprehensive code review guidance for React 19, Vue 3, Angular 17+, Svelte 5, Rust, TypeScript, Java, Java 8, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Python, Django, FastAPI, Go, C/.NET, Kotlin, Swift, Dart…

awesome-skills/code-review-skill2.1k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT29 days ago
16

Contributor guide for step three of adding a syncable entity to the Twenty server: write the validator, the migration action builder and the orchestrator wiring.

twentyhq/twenty58k—~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
17

Use whenever asked to add, create, or scaffold a CRUD endpoint, router, or entity in this repo's server (create/list/get/update/delete handlers, new…

fosrl/pangolin23k—~461Automated safety check: PassUnknownyesterday
18

Guides adding an LLM provider to DeepChat through explicit source changes: collect the provider details, pick a transport path and add registry entries and tests.

ThinkInAIXYZ/deepchat6.4k1 repo~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.04 days ago
19

Backend architecture patterns, API design, database optimization, and server-side best practices for Node.js, Express, and Next.js API routes.

hellangleZ/burn-in-cceverywhere-ralph11217 repos~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence8 mo ago
20

TRIGGER when working with ai-sdk which is Laravel official first-party AI SDK.

trypostit/trypost6762 repos~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
21

Step-by-step guide for adding a new built-in RESP command to Garnet, from the command enum and parser to storage callbacks, command metadata JSON and tests.

microsoft/garnet12k—~9.7kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
22

Walks through step 2 of adding a syncable entity to the Twenty server: a cache service for flat entity maps and utilities that transform entities and DTOs into universal flat entities.

twentyhq/twenty58k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
23

A skill your agent uses for any task or question involving Livewire.

coollabsio/coolify63k—~964Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
24

Generates and splits Django schema migrations for Saleor with manage.py makemigrations, enforcing one new model or one field change per migration file.

saleor/saleor23k—~1kAutomated safety check: PassBSD-3-Clauseyesterday
25

Add or extend Redis commands in the Lettuce client API end-to-end — a new core command, a family of new commands, an extension to an existing command's options, or a module/area command…

redis/lettuce5.8k—~7.7kAutomated safety check: NotesMITyesterday
26

A skill your agent uses when building or modifying CRUD endpoints with FastCRUD (the fastcrud PyPI package) in a FastAPI project — covers FastCRUD, crudrouter, EndpointCreator, FilterConfig…

benavlabs/fastcrud1.6k—~5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT13 days ago
27

Avoid common Ruby and Rails antipatterns that degrade maintainability and performance.

doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper5.5k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
28

Integrate Polar billing in server-side TypeScript applications using the versioned createPolar and createPolarCore clients.

polarsource/polar10k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
29

Laravel test design and review. An agent skill from anonaddy/anonaddy.

anonaddy/anonaddy4.9k5 repos~1kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
30

Covers developing the LangBot core backend and web UI: dev setup, repo layout, API auth types, adding endpoints, migrations and keeping the MCP server in step.

langbot-app/LangBot18k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0today
31

Registers a new syncable entity in three NestJS modules and adds its service and GraphQL resolver layers when contributing to the Twenty server.

twentyhq/twenty58k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
32

FastAPI best practices and conventions. An agent skill from Open-TutorAi/open-tutor-ai-CE.

Open-TutorAi/open-tutor-ai-CE1082 repos~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassBSD-3-Clause3 mo ago
33

Spring Boot 3.x development - REST APIs, JPA, Security, Testing, and Cloud-native patterns.

piomin/claude-ai-spring-boot1.3k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.05 mo ago
34

Creates Java + Spring Boot projects: Web applications, full-stack apps with Vue.js or Angular or React or vanilla JS, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, and Docker.

jdubois/dr-jskill342—~4.6kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.08 days ago
35

Enhance user prompts by analyzing project context (code structure, dependencies, conventions, existing patterns).

bear2u/my-skills9331 repo~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence3 mo ago
36
36.BackendOfficial

NestJS backend development patterns for the RedisInsight API: module structure, services, controllers, DTOs, dependency injection, and error handling.

redis/RedisInsight8.9k—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown3 days ago
37

Build conversational AI voice agents on the ElevenLabs platform.

jezweb/claude-skills1.1k1 repo~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
38

Dub a video into another language and generate subtitles using the default Together + Cartesia stack.

shang-zhu/violin1.1k—~1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT1 mo ago
39

Migrate a whole ArcGIS Hub site into a PortalJS Arc portal end-to-end.

datopian/portaljs2.4k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
40

A skill your agent uses for Pest PHP testing in Laravel projects only.

luadotsh/lua3421 repo~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT16 days ago
41

A skill your agent uses for any task or question involving Livewire.

yungifez/skuul4091 repo~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
42

Step four of adding a syncable entity in the Twenty server: write create, update and delete action handlers that run workspace migrations against the database.

twentyhq/twenty58k—~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
43

Write, refactor, and review Rails code using layered architecture principles from "Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications".

evilmartians/redprints-cfp1081 repo~4.1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence2 mo ago
44

Plans a WxJava setup for Java, Spring Boot or Solon projects that call WeChat services, from module and BOM choice to config and a minimal working call.

binarywang/WxJava33k—~123Automated safety check: PassApache-2.011 days ago
45

Guides work on LobeHub's own product search: the shared search repository, provider choice, Elasticsearch mappings, change syncing and reindexing.

lobehub/lobehub83k—~4.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
46

Builds Laravel 10+ applications with Eloquent models, Sanctum authentication, Horizon queues, API resources and Livewire components, tested with Pest or PHPUnit.

Jeffallan/claude-skills12k1 repo~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
47

Read platform-admin feedback issues through the trusted HTTP admin API, summarize user reports, and turn them into RedBox/RedConvert repair and iteration plans.

Jamailar/Beav1.8k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknownyesterday
48

Handles Laravel Cashier Stripe integration including subscriptions, webhooks, Stripe Checkout, invoices, charges, refunds, trials, coupons, metered billing, and payment failure handling.

luadotsh/lua3421 repo~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT16 days ago

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best backend development skill?

Configuring Horizon from coollabsio/coolify ranks first of the 928 backend development skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 63k GitHub stars, 4 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 898 tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Brainstorming and Fortify Development.

Which backend development skills are official?

58 of the 928 backend development skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Turnstile Spin, Add Garnet RESP Command, Extend Commands API, Backend, FastAPI-Redis SDK Development and 53 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.