Topic · Backend & APIs
Best backend development skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A skill your agent uses whenever the user mentions Horizon by name in a Laravel context. | coollabsio/ | 63k | 4 repos | ~898 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 2 | You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. | xpinjection/ | 112 | 54 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 3 | ACTIVATE when the user works on authentication in Laravel. An agent skill from coollabsio/coolify. | coollabsio/ | 63k | 4 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 4 | A skill your agent uses for Laravel MCP development. An agent skill from coollabsio/coolify. | coollabsio/ | 63k | 1 repo | ~949 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Sets layered architecture and coding rules for Node.js, Express and TypeScript microservices, covering routes, controllers, services, repositories, Prisma, Sentry and Zod. | diet103/ | 10k | 2 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 6 | Apply this skill whenever writing, reviewing, or refactoring Laravel PHP code. | anonaddy/ | 4.9k | 13 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 7 | Set up, repair, or migrate to Cloudflare Turnstile bot verification in an existing frontend and backend, including server-side Siteverify. | cloudflare/ | 3k | 4 repos | ~7.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 6 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/ | 58k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 9 | Build, refactor, and troubleshoot Laravel Actions using lorisleiva/laravel-actions. | coollabsio/ | 63k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 10 | Execute read-only Ruby/Rails commands against Gumroad's production database for debugging and investigation. | antiwork/ | 9.8k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 158 | 17 repos | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 2 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/ | 28k | 1 repo | ~682 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 13 | A skill your agent uses to analyze how a Laravel application is actually written and record its conventions as shared rules. | anonaddy/ | 4.9k | 5 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 14 | 14.Geoflow 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/ | 3.8k | — | ~722 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 6 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/ | 2.1k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 29 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/ | 58k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 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/ | 23k | — | ~461 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 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/ | 6.4k | 1 repo | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 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/ | 112 | 17 repos | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 8 mo ago |
| 20 | TRIGGER when working with ai-sdk which is Laravel official first-party AI SDK. | trypostit/ | 676 | 2 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 12k | — | ~9.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 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/ | 58k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 23 | A skill your agent uses for any task or question involving Livewire. | coollabsio/ | 63k | — | ~964 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 23k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | yesterday |
| 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/ | 5.8k | — | ~7.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 26 | 26.Fastcrud 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/ | 1.6k | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 13 days ago |
| 27 | Avoid common Ruby and Rails antipatterns that degrade maintainability and performance. | doorkeeper-gem/ | 5.5k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 28 | Integrate Polar billing in server-side TypeScript applications using the versioned createPolar and createPolarCore clients. | polarsource/ | 10k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 29 | Laravel test design and review. An agent skill from anonaddy/anonaddy. | anonaddy/ | 4.9k | 5 repos | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 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/ | 18k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 58k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 32 | 32.Fastapi FastAPI best practices and conventions. An agent skill from Open-TutorAi/open-tutor-ai-CE. | Open-TutorAi/ | 108 | 2 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | 3 mo ago |
| 33 | 33.Spring Boot Spring Boot 3.x development - REST APIs, JPA, Security, Testing, and Cloud-native patterns. | piomin/ | 1.3k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 mo ago |
| 34 | 34.Dr Jskill 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/ | 342 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 8 days ago |
| 35 | Enhance user prompts by analyzing project context (code structure, dependencies, conventions, existing patterns). | bear2u/ | 933 | 1 repo | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 mo ago |
| 36 | NestJS backend development patterns for the RedisInsight API: module structure, services, controllers, DTOs, dependency injection, and error handling. | redis/ | 8.9k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 3 days ago |
| 37 | Build conversational AI voice agents on the ElevenLabs platform. | jezweb/ | 1.1k | 1 repo | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 38 | Dub a video into another language and generate subtitles using the default Together + Cartesia stack. | shang-zhu/ | 1.1k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 39 | Migrate a whole ArcGIS Hub site into a PortalJS Arc portal end-to-end. | datopian/ | 2.4k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 40 | 40.Pest Testing A skill your agent uses for Pest PHP testing in Laravel projects only. | luadotsh/ | 342 | 1 repo | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 41 | A skill your agent uses for any task or question involving Livewire. | yungifez/ | 409 | 1 repo | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 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/ | 58k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 43 | Write, refactor, and review Rails code using layered architecture principles from "Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications". | evilmartians/ | 108 | 1 repo | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 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/ | 33k | — | ~123 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 11 days ago |
| 45 | Guides work on LobeHub's own product search: the shared search repository, provider choice, Elasticsearch mappings, change syncing and reindexing. | lobehub/ | 83k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 46 | Builds Laravel 10+ applications with Eloquent models, Sanctum authentication, Horizon queues, API resources and Livewire components, tested with Pest or PHPUnit. | Jeffallan/ | 12k | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 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/ | 1.8k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 48 | Handles Laravel Cashier Stripe integration including subscriptions, webhooks, Stripe Checkout, invoices, charges, refunds, trials, coupons, metered billing, and payment failure handling. | luadotsh/ | 342 | 1 repo | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 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.
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