BF backend-engineering
Design and implement backend services and APIs — REST, gRPC, GraphQL, event-driven handlers, transaction boundaries, outbox/inbox delivery, migration coexistence, database access, integration, error handling, and service-level testing. Use for application/domain/infrastructure implementation decisions. Language and framework agnostic. Do not use for frontend, data engineering, platform provisioning, API contract ownership, service decomposition strategy, or cross-system migration planning.
Design and implement backend services and APIs — REST, gRPC, GraphQL, event-driven handlers, transaction boundaries, outbox/inbox delivery, migration…
As a process F 58/100 · Will not run — References files that are not bundled: ../programming-principles/SKILL.md, ../api-design-and-evolution/SKILL.md, ../migration-engineering/SKILL.md
How to improve
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 14. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../programming-principles/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../api-design-and-evolution/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../migration-engineering/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../software-architecture/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../data-engineering/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../secure-software-engineering/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../release-engineering/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../postgres/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../supabase/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../supabase/references/agent-evals.md
Process rating: all ten parameters 58/100
- 0Tools and files. 10 referenced file(s) missing: ../programming-principles/SKILL.md, ../api-design-and-evolution/SKILL.md, ../migration-engineering/SKILL.md
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 100Steps. 15 steps
- 100Result and completion. Output format and completion criterion are stated
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2379 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4No input/output examples
- -31 of 2 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 494: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 9 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 15 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (8 of 8)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 77.